Charles Barthold is a Senior Lecturer at the Open University. His research employs a variety approaches to organisation studies and leadership in relation to contemporary economic, environmental and social issues. This includes an emphasis on discourse and subjectivity. Charles has extensive teaching experience in a higher education context including postgraduate (PhD, MBA and MSc) and undergraduate students. This includes both face-to-face and distance learning. He has also supervised to completion a number of undergraduate and MSc dissertations.