Profile
Caroline Bolam, Senior Lecturer
Caroline is a Course Leader
for the Part-time MSC in HRM (CIPD accredited). Her Teaching
areas are People Resourcing, Learning and Development, Introduction to Human
Resource Management, Human Resource Management in Practice.
Qualifications
and Memberships
- Full
Member of the CIPD
- Masters in
HRM
- Post
Graduate Certificate in Education
Industrial,
Commercial and Consultancy experience
- 10 years
working in HRM, up to Business Partner level.
- 2 years
working in Learning and Development in the Sales Industry (Select Appointments
2001-2003)
- 3 years working in Learning and Development in the Security Industry (Securitas
UK Ltd 1999 – 2001).
Employment
Experience in Higher Education
- 5 years
experience working in the support function as an HR practitioner, then two years
experience in lecturing and course management.
- 2 years
working as a Human Resources Business Partner in Higher Education.
- 3 years
working as an Organisational Development Advisor in Higher Education.
- Most
recently, 2 years experience as Course leader for the CIPD programme and senior
lecturer within Higher Education (University of Bedfordshire 2003-2011).
- Having worked
as both a practitioner and an academic within Higher Education, leaves me well
placed to explore the dilemma’s of managing Academic Practice and Measuring
Performance. This also was the influence
for my PHD area.
Current
Research Interests
Jan 2011 RS1 completed, in partial
fulfilment towards PHD. Subject: A
qualitative study of how academic “performance” is influenced by
“managerialism” in higher education within the UK.
The specific research objectives are:
- To understand how academics with both
teaching and research commitments, working in an English HE environment, make
sense of the demands of their job.
- To understand how these academics
observably demonstrate their understanding of their job demands, through
the day-to-day performances they present to others; i.e. to managers and to
students, and to the wider academic community.
- To understand how academic staff
interpret their own ‘performances’, considering their views on the demands of
their job.
- To understand through analysing
individual narrative accounts how performance management as a feature of
‘managerialism’ (defined below) interacts with individuals’ perceptions of
their sense of ‘academic identity’ and interpretations of roles to be played
and impressions to be managed to secure their continuing warrant as academics
within contemporary English higher education.
Contact details
E: caroline.bolam@beds.ac.uk
