Role
Richard is a lecturer for Business and Management and Assistant Course Leader.
Career overview
His professional background spans over twelve years, during which he worked across various sectors, including banking and management consultancy. In these roles, Richard assisted SMEs in value creation, business strategy refinement, and operational optimisation. Notably, he also spent a year as an SME Business Strategy consultant at for the university under the Knowledge Exchange program during his doctoral studies.
Research areas
- ‘The Black Travel Movement- The roles of framing and social-symbolic work in the development of meaning in institutional fields- Doctoral thesis (post-viva)
- ‘The Black Travel Movement: the roles of emotion and identity work in the social construction of meaning on social media- Conference presentation at 40th European Group for Organisational Studies (EGOS), Milan, Italy
- ‘The Black Travel Movement: Unpacking the roles of framing and social symbolic work in the development of meaning in institutional fields’- Full paper submission for British Academy of Management (BAM) 2024 conference- awarded ‘Best Full Paper’ in Organisational Studies
External activity
Fellow, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)