Role
Shaun is a Senior Lecturer and the Course Leader for Business Management and Sustainability. He joined NTU in September 2016 having studied for a PhD degree at the University of Nottingham. Shaun is also an Assistant Course Leader for the BA (Hons) Business degree programme, with an overview of final year students. Shaun teaches in Nottingham Business School on a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
Career overview
Most recently a management consultant with a focus on health and social care, Shaun has over 25 years experience of organisational development and improvement across a variety of organisations, including Banking and public services, notably the NHS and local government. During that time he has worked extensively with C-suite leaders, Boards of Directors and senior politicians.
Shaun’s first career was in traffic and transport engineering, and in the late 1990s he was one of the architects of the UK national ‘Safer Routes to School’ progamme (aka ‘the Walking Bus’). Shaun also prepared the first Green Transport Plan to accompany a major UK planning application.
Shaun was awarded an NHS CLAHRC scholarship to study for a PhD of Nottingham University Business School, which he completed in 2016.
At Nottingham Business School, Shaun has devised and led a number of modules involving students working with external business and organisations as management consultants, including the MBA Change Management module and the undergraduate Sustainability in Enterprise Project module, which focuses on sustainability, UNSDGs and carbon management.
Research areas
The idea for Shaun’s PhD thesis, ‘Creativity and Service Innovation: An Examination of Differences Between Theory and Practice’, came from Shaun’s civil engineering and management consultancy experience, where attention to problem solving was a constant theme. His research into creativity and service innovation accounts for how individuals and teams in organisations get major innovation projects back on track when problems occur during their implementation. Shaun remains active in research with a focus on sustainability, UN SDGs and carbon management.
Shaun has also supervised a PhD candidate who successfully defended her thesis in 2024. The focus of her research is leadership in a cross-cultural setting relating to the provision of healthcare services.
External activity
Shaun is a member of the British Academy of Management.
Away from work, Shaun turns to his creative side through photography. He is always delighted to rejoin the West Holts Stage at Glastonbury Music Festival every year as their main stage photographer. His photography has featured in Rolling Stone magazine, national newspapers such as The Guardian and The Observer and various music-related websites.