Professor Julie Davies
Professor of Healthcare Management and Leadership Development

Summary

I am a member of the Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Management Department in Brunel Business School. My research interests focus on hybrid management and leadership development in organisations including healthcare and business education, intersectionality, ethnic minority micro-enterprises, and workplace well-being. I use qualitative research methods, interdisciplinary, and international perspectives. I welcome ideas for collaborations and proposals from organisations and prospective doctoral students whose interests align with my research areas in engaged scholarship to make a positive impact linked to UN SDGs 3, 5, 8, and 10 in particular.

I have (co)led research projects on gender and medical leadership development with AIIMS, New Delhi; on workforce redesign in Airedale Hospital; and HRM in regional SMEs, including Chevening, NHS England, and EU Erasmus+ funding. I have published in journals such as the Academy of Management Learning & Education; Gender, Work & Organization; Journal of Business Research; Journal of Health Organization and Management; Stress and Health, and co-authored papers with plastic surgeons and ophthalmologists. For three years I served as an Associate Editor of Human Resource Development Review.

I have conducted research, consultancy, and executive education in Australia, Cambodia, China, India, Kuwait, Mozambique, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and Vietnam in airline, banking, energy, and healthcare organisations. I initiated and facilitated EFMD’s international development programme and AAPBS workshops for business school deans. I also have extensive distance learning teaching experience on the Open University’s MBA and have taught next level leadership and managing change at London Business School. I was the inaugural Director of the MBA Health programme in the Global Business School for Health at University College London.

I am currently a trustee of Kirkwood Hospice where I chair the EDI subcommittee, a member of the editorial board of Long Range Planning, and I am an external examiner for the University of Manchester’s MSc Healthcare Leadership. I chair the research committee of the University Forum for Human Resource Development (UFHRD) and I am an academic advisory board member for the Centre for Business and Industry Transformation (CBIT) at Nottingham Business School. I am a member of EFMD’s MBA conference steering committee. I am a practitioner Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, Senior Fellow AdvanceHE, and UK Council for Graduate Education (UKCGE) recognised doctoral supervisor. I am also a qualified executive coach and psychometrics assessor.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/professor-julie-davies

X: @juliedaviesUK

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6875-3100

Qualifications

PhD Strategic Management, Warwick University; MBA, Kingston University; MA, Education Open University; LLB(Hons), Open University; BA(Hons), University of Birmingham; PGCE, University of Sheffield; International Teachers Program, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. 

Responsibility

Head of Business School Accreditations, Rankings and Reputation