Janet Handley Email and Phone Number

Janet is an experienced and successful senior academic leader and Head of Department. An ability to lead and achieve excellence with and through others is evidenced by her record of significant departmental growth – both in terms of student numbers and revenue – and quality outcomes.A strategic thinker, Janet has considerable experience of leading complex change across several departments and has worked closely with leaders outside HE, including Health and the not-for-profit sectors. Her ability to innovate personally and through others is evidenced by early-career inception of what is now one of the largest and most successful programmes within her previous university in addition to her more recent leadership and development of the first degree apprenticeship suite. Janet is passionate about enhancing the student experience and is the longest-serving member of the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS)’ Learning, Teaching and Student Experience Committee (LTSEC). She has been actively involved in all LTSEC Learning and Teaching Conferences, as reviewer and/or track Chair, and was one of a very small panel of reviewers for contributions to the Chartered ABS’ ‘Thought Pieces’. She was an early innovator in assessment, being a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) since 2000 and a member of the HEA assessment special interest group (SIG). Commitment to effective leadership is evidenced by her Chartered Manager (CMgr) status and sustained engagement with the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) in addition to her own personal professional development as a manager. Janet has achieved distinction in all academic qualifications: a First Class Honours Degree, Distinction in her Masters’, Distinction in her PG Cert Research Methods and is about to submit for her doctorate with the University of Leeds. Her publications reflect diverse interests including interdisciplinarity, talent management, HR and gender.