Role
Steve is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Marketing and is the NBS Foundation Year Lead. Steve is involved with a number of foundation level, undergraduate and postgraduate modules across the Nottingham Business School. Steve has most recently taught on modules such as Strategic Marketing, Integrating Marketing Communications & Principles of Marketing.
Career overview
Steve has been working in academia since 2016 and has been with Nottingham Trent University since January 2022.
Walsall College (2016-2019)
Steve began his academic career at Walsall College as a Lecturer in Business, Management & Accountancy. During Steve’s time at Walsall College, he held Programme Leadership positions for the BA (Hons) Business Management, Business Management & Accountancy, as well as Higher National Certificate in Business (Blended) and the Chartered Managers Institute (CMI) Level 5 Diploma in Leadership & Management.
Further to this, Steve acted as the Business Lead to the Access to HE programmes and served as the Academic Governor on the College’s governing body.
University of Derby (2019-2022)
In 2019, Steve joined the University of Derby’s Business School as a Lecturer in Business Management within the Portfolio of Professional & Executive Education. As part of his role, Steve worked extensively on the BSc Business Management (Online) and the Chartered Degree Managers Apprenticeship (CMDA), coaching clients from organisations JCB, Dreams, E-On, NHS, NFU Mutual, Derbyshire City Council and a range of SMEs across the Derbyshire region.
Further to this, Steve was part of the development team for the online iteration Confederation of Tourism Hospitality (IOH) Level 4 Diploma in Advanced Hospitality Management.
Nottingham Trent University (2022-present)
Steve is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Marketing and is part of the Department’s Management Team. As part of his role, Steve oversees academic quality assurance, co-ordination of Hourly Paid Lecturer activity and timetabling for the department’s undergraduate provision. Further to this, Steve is the NBS Lead for Foundation Year and teaches on a range of undergraduate modules across the school.
Previously, Steve has led the ‘Principles of Marketing’ module which is a core first year module for first year programmes, in which he led a team of 20 members of staff to support over 900 students.
Research areas
Steve is currently undertaking his PhD at the University of Leeds whereby he is exploring how problematic pornography use in early career professional’s impacts work related wellbeing and performance. As part of his research, Steve has presented his work both nationally and internationally.
External activity
Steve is an experienced external examiner whereby he advises on course and assessment development. Steve has conducted external examination activity for the following universities and programmes:
- University of East Anglia (2019-2023): BA (Hons) Business Management
- University of Plymouth (2023-present): BA (Hons) Business Management
- External Examiner: BA Business Management & Chartered Managers Degree
- Apprenticeship – University of East Anglia