Dr Duminda Rajasinghe

Role

Duminda is a Senior Lecturer in HRM, and OB and he specialises in leadership development, coaching and learning and development. He teachers human resource management at both postgraduate and undergraduate level and act as an academic mentor. Duminda co-teaches and leads few different modules across levels within the HRM and OB subject group. He is a member of Centre for people, work and organisational practice research group.

Career overview

Prior to Nottingham Business school, he has worked for Northampton, York and Salford Business schools in the UK. Duminda has lead modules that are delivered internationally (Europe, Asia and Middle East) both with flying faculty arrangements and distance learning modes. He has actively engaged with programme, module development, quality assurance, validation and taught, both undergraduate and postgraduate level modules including a DBA module. Prior to his academic career, he worked as a HR professional in three different multinational organisations

He holds a PhD (leadership coaching) from Leeds Business school and a master’s degree in leadership and management from York Business School and his first degree is in Computing and Information Systems from London Metropolitan University. He also holds a professional qualification in HRM (PQHRM) CIPM, Sri Lanka. Duminda is a Senior Fellow of Advanced HE (SFHEA) and  an Academic Member of CIPD (UK).

External activity

Duminda is the Chair of External Relationship Committee of University Forum of Human Resource Development (UFHRD), and assessor of CIPD qualifications in the UK and a member of coaching and mentoring scheme of CIPD Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Branch. He is an external examiner at Bedfordshire University MBA program.

Sponsors and collaborators

Duminda currently work with an international team of coaches and academics. The team includes Prof. Bob Garvey, Prof, David Clutterbuck, Dr. Stephen Burt, and Dr.Alexandra Barosa-Pereira. The project aims to develop a deeper understanding coach development/maturity from the perspective of experienced coaches. It adapts IPA (interpretative phenomenological analysis) as its research methodology.

Duminda collaborates with Prof. Mark Gilman and Dr. Chinthka Aluthgama-Baduge from Derby Business School and Dr. Sanna Ilonen from University of Turku, Finland to deepen our understanding of how entrepreneurs in residence facilitate entrepreneurship education in UK academia.

He also works with Dr. Michaela Edwards, School for Business and Society, York University and Dr. Tolu Fadipe, from Nottingham Business School to explore the experience of undergraduate students who complete their program with a first class to understand the dynamics of their learning and development during those students’ time within a UK higher education institution.