Professor Deborah Lock

• Student & graduate enterprise & employability
• Internationalization of teaching practices in business & management education
• Learner transitions in higher education
• Leadership, coaching & mentoring
• Organizational change management
• Identity construction in business 

• PhD: Her PhD was on identity construction amongst KT staff in UK universities with specific attention on their career motives, business development practices and relationship management skills.
• MA: Her MA dissertation was on the management of historical book collections in medical schools
• BA (Hons): Her BA dissertation was on the role of the railway network on the growth of Surbiton, Kingston Upon Thames

• Chair, Executive Education Committee, Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS)
• Treasure, BAM Identity Special Interest Group
• Visiting Professor, Heilongjiang International University, Harbin, PRC. 
• Visiting Professor, Lincoln International Business School, UK
• Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PFHEA)

• UG & PG Dissertation Supervision 

• Leadership in crisis (in collaboration with PPMA)
• Chinese experiences of UK Higher Education online learning practices (in collaboration with Dongbiao Lui, College of Foreign Languages, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, Hebei, PRC & sponsored by China Scholarship Council)

Current PGR students

•   K. Singh: An exploration of the academic identity of BAME commuter students
•   L.J. Stones: NHS Intercultural workforce Integration: Phenomenological research into the efficacy and impact of amalgamation initiatives

Viva pending

•   S. Horton: Fun in the military: The role of psychological capital on morale

Deborah supervises a maximum of four PGR students at anyone given time, and welcome applications from candidates interested in the following areas:

• Business & management education
• Leadership & change management
• Gender and or identity studies in business
• Employability

Books:

1. Lock, D, Caputo, A., Igwe. P. and Hack-Polay, D. (2022) International Environments and Practices of Higher Education Emerald Publishing Limited
2. Lock, D, Caputo, A., Igwe. P. and Hack-Polay, D. (2021) Borderlands: The Internationalisation of H.E. Teaching Practice (Edited Collection) Springer, New York. (Pending)
3. Lock, D.  Known, Shared and Contested Space in HE IN McIntosh, E and Nutt, D. (2021) The Impact of the Integrated Practitioner in Higher Education. Studies in Third Space Professionalism (Edited Collection) Routledge
4. Everett, S., Hunt, A. & Lock, D., Cade, N., Lupton, K. and MacDonald, S (Eds.) (2020) Employability and Study Skills for Tourism, Hospitality and Events Students. Sage
5. Lock, D. (2019) Constructing careers: Self-awareness, self-reflection, and self-efficacy amongst undergraduate business students IN Diver, A. (Ed) Employability via Higher Education: Sustainability as Scholarship. Springer

Articles:

1. Igwe, P. A., Lock, D. & Rugara, D. G. (2020) What factors determine the development of employability skills in Nigerian higher education?, Innovations in Education and Teaching International, https://doi.org/10.1080/14703297.2020.1850319
2. Igwe, P.A, Lock, D.,Ochinanwata, C., Nwakpu, E.S. & Nwedu, C.N. (2020) The global order, regional integration and multiculturally diverse stakeholders: The case of ECOWAS. International Journal of Organizational Analysis
3. Igwe, P.A, Hack-Polay, D, Mendy, J, Fuller, T & Lock, D. (2019) Improving higher education standards in through reengineering West African universities – A case study of Nigeria. Studies in Higher Education. DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2019.1698534
4. Lingwood, G., Clements, M., Smith, MF, and Lock, D. (2018) Shifting Sands: Why Pedagogical Research In Higher Education Matters To Us All. IMPact. 1 (1). 
5. Lock, D. (2000) Hybrid librarians & distance learners: the fact controllers. New Review of Libraries & Lifelong Learning. 1: 137-154
6. Fulcher, G. & Lock, D. (2000) Distance Education: The future of library and information services requirements. Distance Learning 20 (2): 313-154
7. Lock, D. (2000) DiLIS & copyright. IN Downham, G. ed (2002) Library & Information Services for Off-site Users: The Future Looks Bright [Proceedings of a seminar held at the University of Central Lancashire, August 2000]
8. Lock, D. (1999) Distant Users: Local responsibilities. Library for Nurses Bulletin. 19 (2): 6-13
9. Lock, D. ed. (1999) Library support for distance learners. [Proceedings of a seminar held at the University of Surrey. January 1999]
10. Lock, D & Nordon, J. (1998) Designing DiLIS: The Surrey Experience. Journal of Library and Information Science 30 (4): 241-248
11. Lock, D. (1998) DiLIS shrinks the globe. ARIADNE No.18: 3

•   2011/14: Governor and Chair of Curriculum Committee, Brooklands College, Weybridge
•   2008/13: Director, Kingston University Enterprises Ltd
•   2011/13: Treasurer and Accountant for St Oswald’s Church, Southwark Diocese
•   2009/12: CBI Council Member, London Region
•   2009/11: Director, Association of University Research & Industrial Liaison (AURIL)

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