Prof Bela Arora Email & Phone Number

Warrington, GB

India

Each year the United Nations Global Compact celebrates a group of SDG Pioneers — business leaders who are doing an exceptional job to advance the Global Goals through the implementation of our Ten Principles on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption.

• ACADEMIC RESPONSIBILITIES- the new MSc Global Governance that is practice oriented and applied in nature- lecturing- research and consultancyPOLITICAL ANALYSIS
• Regular commentator for BBC Wales, BBC Radio Wales and ITV Wales on politics international security
• Regular newspaper reviewer on BBC Radio Wales
• Occasional commentator on BBC2 Wales’ politics programmes Dragon’s Eye and AM:PM
• Occasional commentator on ITV Wales news on international security (most recently appeared as a member of an expert panel on ‘Wales this Week’ discussing the death of MI6 agent Gareth Williams)
• Writer of fortnightly column on business and politics for the Birmingham Mail for 10 years

• Develop and inform policy and practice relating to the Graduate School
• Support the development of the graduate community
• Responsible for PhD supervisor training programme
• Develop an online programme of research training
• Lead on pedagogic research including being the Chair of pedagogic research group on learning spaces

Each year the United Nations Global Compact celebrates a group of SDG Pioneers — business leaders who are doing an exceptional job to advance the Global Goals through the implementation of our Ten Principles on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption. I was honoured to be invited to be an external reviewer of the applications.

University Of Wales, Newport

• Supported colleagues in quality enhancement through the development of a series of workshops and online study guides
• Liaised with colleagues on quality assurance in Newport’s Institutional Review 2010, where CELT was highlighted as a beacon of best practice
• Liaised with our Collaborative Partner Institutions to support the enhancement agenda in the provision of HE programmes in FE colleges
• Shaped quality enhancement strategies. Contributed to the DVC (Learning Support) led committee developing the institution’s Learning & Teaching Strategy (2011)
• Member of the UHOVI Experts in Learning Innovations Group and UHOVI Research Group Evaluation Group in collaboration with WISERD.
• Developed and enhanced international partnerships through ExpedR (pedagogic research expeditions)

Cardiff, United Kingdom

• Worked with all disciplines across 27 academic schools
• Supported the implementation and development of school-level Assessment Strategies
• Worked with Quality Assurance to minimise cross institutional inconsistencies
• Fostered inter/intra School exchange of good practice

University Of Birmingham

• Responsible for supporting and facilitating the enhancement of learning and teaching in Politics across UK H.E. institutions, with a special focus on Wales
• Advised on quality enhancement policies and practice
• Provided advice and funding to support quality enhancement initiatives
• Facilitated learning and teaching networks relating to Politics
• Commissioned research on learning and teaching in Politics
• Established a cross-disciplinary South Wales Cluster Group, an online Ideas Bank and a discipline-specific Teaching Award

School Of European Studies (Politics)

• Module convenor of third year undergraduate module on Weapons of Mass Destruction and Global Insecurity

Birmingham, United Kingdom

• Responsible for £90k research project on BME students' perceptions of citizenship education
• Developed resources and generated publications
• Presented invited papers at international conferences in Hong Kong and Sydney

Swansea, United Kingdom

• Lecturer on Undergraduate and Masters programmes

• Lecturer on MA module in International Business on the MA in IPE and IR

Corporate Citizenship Unit, University Of Warwick

• Research Fellow contributing to the development of the UN Global Compact (sustainability initiative). Project initiated by Kofi Anan, Secretary General and steered by the United Nations. Personally responsible for the.
• Research Fellow – contributed to the development of a BSI initiative ‘Sustainability: Integrated Management System (Sigma)’ examining cultural change, innovation and learning
• Research Fellow on collaborative project with the International Business Leaders Forum on conflict diamonds
• Advisor to PriceWaterhouseCoopers on research on MP’s perceptions of CSR
• Lecturer– Critical Issues in Management
• Guest lecturer on Executive Programmes, MBA, MPA and Social Accountability courses

Birmingham, United Kingdom

• Member of teaching teams
• Teaching experience at undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in International Relations

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), International Security

Thesis title: 'Exploitation, Language and Power in the Arms Control Process: a Neo-Gramscian Perspective'

Master'S Degree, International Security

Modules included: Security Studies, Foreign Policy Analysis, Research Methods Dissertation: 'A Critique of Arms Control Theory'

Ba (Hons.), Russian And European Studies

Four year degree programme included spending one year in Russia studying in Moscow and St Petersburg