Errol Hemans

Role

As a Senior Lecturer in the Management Department, he teaches the Developing Professional Impact, undergraduate programme. Errol is an Academic Mentor, Personal tutor/course tutor and a Business Research Project supervisor for dissertation students in the BA Business programmes.

At the postgraduate level, Errol supervises Business Research Projects for dissertations students in the MBA, E-MBA and MSc programmes. He provides Consultancy Project support for master’s students in international Management, Professional Practice and support to MSc Business Management students. Errol also leads two modules on MSc Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship modules, the Enterprise Context & Business Values alongside Customer Insights Through Marketing Research. These modules offer an opportunity for students to understand the behaviours and thinking processes of entrepreneurs and to implement strategies for real-life complex global business solutions.

As part of the quality assurance element, Errol attends examination boards and Academic Committees and submits annual reports of the Course performance.  Errol provides comments and recommendations for coursework brief changes, carries out module reviews, working with course leaders, through consultation with academic boards, the quality assurance teams, internal moderators and external examiners. Errol also conducts module life cycle logs and assesses the progress and development of students. He is used to consulting with student reps, professionals and other support services to identify any required actions to improve the teaching and learning elements of the programme to be both theoretical and practically relevant to the real world.

Errol has been the Co-Chair of the Trent Institute for Learning and Teaching (TILT) Annual Learning and Teaching Conference Committee.  As Co-Chair he assisted in the leadership, planning, and coordination of events and programming leading to the delivery of the annual conference. As a conference facilitator, and contributor,  Errol is active in the debate on teaching and learning practice, delivering strategies on how to narrow the university’s Black Attainment Gap.

Career overview

Errol received his first undergraduate degree in Art and Design from Sunderland Polytechnic. For nine years, he worked for three multi-cultural local authorities. To further his skills, he commenced an M Soc Sci in Race and Education at Birmingham University as he continued working as a Race Relations Officer. His studies were followed up with the completion of the taught component of his second master’s in business administration (MBA) at Wolverhampton University. Such is Errol’s passion to teach, he has worked for four years as a supply teacher, working within secondary schools and higher education colleges specialising in business studies.

Errol has worked at the chief officer level for two multi-million-pound community regeneration programmes, who’s primary objective was to narrow the gap between deprived communities and the rest of society by targeting the government’s six key aspects of deprivation. For several years he sat as a regional non-executive board member on the National Probation Service, he has also been a member of the Independent Television Commission Viewers Committee.

For over two decades, Errol has worked as an independent management consultant, where his work includes working for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister as a Neighbourhood Renewal Advisor. During this time, he also carried out an international comparative study between Jamaica and the UK community regeneration programme.

External activity

National awards

Finalist at the National Enterprise Educator Awards 2022, in the category of Star in Enterprise Education, received a highly commended.

Sponsors and collaborators

Errol is pursuing opportunities for collaborative international teaching and developing pedagogical practices using the transnational curriculum design framework (TCDF). He has worked with esteemed international universities as a visiting lecturer/professor, these establishments include:

Hemans, E. R, 2024, April. 9. The 10 characteristics that have contributed to my success. 5^th NTU Black Leadership Programme Celebration Event.

Hemans, E. R, 2024, September. 7. Entrepreneurial University: Rethinking the role of university engagement with Black and Minority Enterprise and Entrepreneurs. Enterprise Educators UK’s Annual Conference 2023.

Hemans, E. R, 2023, March. 20-24. How diversity management strategies can lead to enhanced business performance. ESSCA - International Week 2023, ESSCA Business School. Paris.

Hemans. E.R. 2022, April. 6. Applying Management and Structure Theories to International Social Entrepreneurship. ESIC International Week 4th – 8th April 2022. ESIC University Madrid, Spain.

Hemans. E.R. 2022, April. 6. Global Entrepreneurship: Business Incubators and the Entrepreneurial Framework Conditions. ESIC International Week 4th – 8th April 2022. ESIC University Madrid, Spain.

Hemans. E.R. 2022, April. 7. The impact of university entrepreneurial ecosystems: Strategies to address underrepresented groups. ESIC International Week 4th – 8th April 2022. ESIC University Madrid, Spain.

Hemans. E.R. 2022, April. 7. Ethical Implications for Marketing Research in the Apparel Industry in Sri Lanka. ESIC International Week 4th – 8th April 2022. ESIC University Madrid, Spain.

Hemans. E.R. 2022, February. 9. 2^nd An international approach to social entrepreneurship. ISC Paris Online International Week 7-11 February 2022. Institut supérieur du commerce (ISC) de Paris, France

Hemans. E.R. 2021, February. 16. 1^st An international approach to social entrepreneurship. ISC Paris Online International Week 15th – 19th February 2021. Institut supérieur du commerce (ISC) de Paris, France.

Hemans. E.R. 2020, October 19^th. Rising to the challenge of global entrepreneurship: an insight into the UK’s approach (Czech Republic). Brno Online International Week 19-22 October 2020. Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic.

Hemans. E.R. 2019, October. 14^th. Rising to the challenge of global entrepreneurship:
An insight into the UK’s approach (Czech Republic). Brno International Week 14-18 October 2019. Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic.

Hemans. E.R. 2019, March 6^th. Rising to the challenge of global entrepreneurship:
An insight into the UK and Spain.  Valencia Erasmus Week from 4th – 8th March 2019. University of Valencia, Spain.

Errol would be interested in discussing opportunities for collaboration in his areas of specialisation.