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Academic means business at Teesside

04 April 2012

 

Professor Joyce Liddle has joined Teesside University Business School, bringing with her more than three decades of experience in business, teaching, research and consultancy.

She returns to her native North-east as Professor of Public Leadership and Strategy and Co-Director of the University’s Centre for Leadership & Organisational Change.

Originally from County Durham, Professor Liddle said: 'I’m delighted to return to the region. Teesside University is a key institution carrying out research which can impact on the regional economy. It is also rated highly in terms of student satisfaction and is putting Teesside on the map.'

She has held roles at five universities, Teesside, Durham, Sunderland, Nottingham and Nottingham Trent - three of them in the region’s business schools.

Professor Liddle said: 'My role at Teesside is to develop research into public leadership and strategy. Teesside is supportive of research and a key player in the regional economy, playing a major role in transforming the Tees Valley.

'It’s a very exciting time to join Teesside University Business School and I am looking forward to reconnecting with networks across the region.

'In previous roles I’ve been involved in regional economic development forums and I would like to continue working with local enterprise partnerships, business forums and local government.

'I’m familiar with the business environment on Teesside, having worked in the past with the local chamber of commerce. I want to bring my public, private and third sector experience to my role.'

Professor Liddle has had links with the University in various capacities over the past 15 years, including as a visiting lecturer, research collaborator, doctorate examiner, validating public management course programmes, recruitment panellist for readers and professors and more recently as visiting professor.

Last year she gave a guest lecture as part of Teesside’s An Audience With series, when she explored the idea of public leadership, what it means, how we understand it and how it fits within the changing context of public services.

Professor Liddle said: 'Public sector governance places an emphasis on partnership working, we need collaborative leaders.'

She added: 'The University has changed dramatically over the 15 years that I’ve been associated with it and it continues to be on a major upward trajectory. The one over-riding feeling you get from Teesside is how supportive it is of research.'

Company director The Durham and Warwick graduate began her career with the civil service and went on to have roles as training officer, research officer and company director of a family business. She has taught, researched and provided consultancy in public management to many UK and overseas public agencies.

Along with chairing international and national conferences and speaking at events in China, Finland, Brussels, France and Brazil, she has also taught overseas, including Slovakia, Greece and Amsterdam on the MBA programme.

She is also visiting professor with the University of Eastern Finland and Paul Cezanne University in Marseilles, France and is the vice-chair of the UK Joint University Council and chair of the Public Administration Committee, the Learned Society for public administration and policy in the UK.

Professor Liddle was conferred as an academician by the British Academy of Social Sciences for her contribution to social sciences, and a Fellow of the International Regional Studies Association for her contribution to local and regional development. She is editor in chief of the International Journal of Public Sector Management, editorial board member for four other international journals and a founder member of the European Foundation for Management Development Public Sector network.

Along with numerous articles she has had four books published, the most recent being Leadership and Change in Sustainable Regional Development.

Professor Liddle said: 'Leadership plays a crucial role in reinventing regions and branching out from an old path into something new in order to create more balanced and sustainable regional development. The future of the commercial and business world is working in collaboration with the public and third sector.'


 
 
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