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To apply for a research degree, please make sure you fulfill the entry requirements and then complete the online research degree application form and upload your supporting documents.
You should have a good honours degree (2:1 or above) or masters degree or equivalent in the relevant subject area.
International applicants should be aware of our research degree English language requirements
David Archer is a Director of Socia – a management consultancy company that specialises in advising leaders in the public and private sector on partnership working and how to build collaborative organisations. He has worked on multi-party collaboration projects across Whitehall, in Local Government and in parts of the NHS, as well as having extensive private sector experience. He is also the co-author of the book “Collaborative Leadership – how to succeed in an interconnected world” and has written and presented numerous articles on the subjects of leadership, partnership and collaboration.
His professional background is in systems engineering. He worked for the BBC before moving to the University of Hertfordshire where he led teaching and research programmes in the areas of telecommunications and information systems. After a period running the change management division of an international management consultancy business he set up his own consultancy practice in 1997.
Born in Tyneside, he was educated in Cambridge and has lived in Hertfordshire for over 25 years. He was elected as member of the Fellowship Council of the RSA in 2009 and this year was appointed to the Board of Trustees. He is a Chartered Engineer and a member of the IET.
His research interests are in the areas of, organisational
change, collaborative working, self-learning systems and complexity,
particularly as applied to social change and public policy formation.
