Subcommittee
Please see members of the submcommittee and their roles below:
Prof Liz Houldsworth
Prof Elizabeth Houldsworth (Liz) is an experienced management development practitioner and an Associate Professor in Management Education and Learning at Henley Business School (University of Reading).
She has a long association with BAM, spanning over 30 years, focusing largely on the Knowledge and Learning SIG and MKE. Her scholarship interests revolve around managerial / adult learning and the career and personal development outcomes experienced by Business School learners.
As a qualified coach, she has a particular interest in supporting women’s careers and is currently leading two communities of practice within Henley and Reading to develop pedagogical scholarship amongst teaching-focused colleagues.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Website:
- www.henley.ac.uk/people/dr-elizabeth-houldsworth
Dr Fariba Darabi
Dr Fariba Darabi is an experienced management educator with particular expertise in the fields of Entrepreneurship, International Business, and Research Methods. She held Visiting Professorship at University of Capitole 1 (Toulouse, France); committee member for the EFMD doctoral programmes conference; serves on the British Academy of Management’s Council as a Management Knowledge and Education Committee member, co-leading the ‘Education-focussed Professor’ programme, and Co-Chair for the Research Methodology Special Interest Group.
Fariba is UK Council for Graduate Education-recognised research supervisor, with doctoral completions and external examination experience. Her primary research interests are Engaged Scholarship, SME Entrepreneurship, and Global Supply Chain Management; Research methods is her secondary research interest, for which she is authoring a textbook. Fariba is an engaged scholar who has successfully secured research grants to ‘Harness AI and Generative AI for Welsh SMEs’ Innovation’, acting as Principal Investigator, and is co-investigating a ‘AI-driven innovation in UK SMEs’ project funded by ISBE’s RAKE fund. She has also been successful in attracting UKRI funds for a KTP project. She has published in World Class Journals such as the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour Research and Human Resource Management Journal, alongside authoring chapters in edited research volumes.
Please visit Fariba’s full profile here: https://www.bangor.ac.uk/staff/bbs/fariba-darabi-658619/en