Lisa Conway
Deputy Head of Division Business, Management, Accounting & Finance
Lisa is both a Senior Lecturer in Business and Management, and a Senior University Teaching Fellow, supporting colleagues to keep abreast of the latest, most effective and engaging teaching and learning strategies. She is also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Before joining the University as a Senior Lecturer, Lisa spent much of her career leading large teams within both commercial and public sector organisations.
Lisa began her career in retail management, in both store and head office management positions with well known brands in both supermarket and fashion retail.
Subsequently, she spent several years in Senior Management roles in local government with particular expertise in the fields of economic development, regeneration, business growth, adult skills, learning and employability and with research interests in reaching the hard-to-reach to impact social mobility.
This background supports Lisa's leadership of modules in organisational management, managing people, retail management and intrapreneurship as well as her commitment to embedding employability skills into her teaching.
Most recently in her career, Lisa has worked successfully as a Management Consultant, both in the UK and the Middle East, helping organisations to develop and implement business development and transformation projects and empowering female postgraduate students to fulfil roles in employment.
As a member of the University's alumni, having completed her Master of Science in Management with Marketing here at the Business School, Lisa is particularly keen to pass the baton and help other University of Chester students to fulfil their potential.
Lisa is also current Chair of Young Enterprise Cheshire and Warrington Board.
Business and Management modules that Lisa has led include
- Managing Sustainable Business Ventures
- Retail Management
- Managing People & Organisations
- MSc Leadership & Change
- MSc Commissioning in Healthcare
- Dissertation supervision, levels 6 & 7
In particular, Lisa's work with major retailing brands, in supporting Retail Management students, has been an example of the authentic learning and assessment approach favoured at Chester Business School for many years.
Lisa's research interests include understanding the motivations of the business community in supporting the Higher Education Business Management curriculum, with a view to capitalising on these relationships and ideas for the benefit of businesses, educators and most especially students.