Keith Chandler
Senior Lecturer in Business and Management
Keith Chandler is a Senior Lecturer in Business and Management. He is an experienced educationalist and enthusiastic advocate of lifelong learning with over 30 years expertise in leadership and strategic management and 40 years’ experience in the development of policy and practice in designing, delivering, managing and assessing learning in a range of educational contexts.
Keith was engaged initially as a Visiting Lecturer, now as a part time faculty member, responsible for the design, development, delivery and assessment of learning in areas of Leadership and Change, People and Organisations, Human Resource Management, Managing Business relationships and Project Management on undergraduate programmes, Leadership and Management on MSc and MBA programmes and he also supervises undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations.
In 2012 Keith was appointed as Visiting Fellow in Lifelong Learning and from then until 2016 acted as Project Director for multilateral European partnership work for the University in adult life change initiatives , responsible for planning, writing, co-ordination and leadership of funded projects focused on transformative learning for older learners through engagement in social needs and innovation, local entrepreneurial activity, active citizenship, sharing expertise through collaborative learning.
Formerly Keith was the Principal for over 20 years at one of the United Kingdom’s leading short-term adult residential colleges offering learning in personal, community and organisational development, responsible for all aspects of management and leadership in local, regional and national settings. This included determining direction, policy and business strategy, initiating an entrepreneurial approach for income generating initiatives.
Managing People and Organisations , Thinking about Management and Organisations and Principles of Operations and Quality Management at Level 4.
Human Resource Management and Individual Work Based Project at Level 5.
Leadership and Change Management, Managing Employee Performance, Project and Relationship Management , Management Research Project at Level 6.
Leading Effectively , Leadership in Action, Leading and Managing People, Leadership Learning and Continuous Professional Development, Managing Excellence in Processes and Projects and Management Research Project at Level 7.
Aspects of Life Change as a transformative learning experience and in Mature Enterprise; considering processes and support for those over 50 who wish to remain economically active through entrepreneurial activity and its associated learning needs.
Processes to identify and deliver innovative approaches to developing people, to best satisfy their particular need for learning, whether it be intrinsic, personal, social, civic, or economic.