Pippa Weston | University of Chester

Pip is a senior lecturer with over 30 years of HE experience in Leadership and Business Management, and Work Based Integrative Studies (WBIS). She is programme leader for the SLMDA MBA/MA/MSc. postgraduate apprenticeship programmes, as well as being involved in managing and delivering other WBIS programmes at both postgraduate and undergraduate level. In addition, she is part of the CBS doctoral programme team supervising DBA and DProf. students. Finally, she is link tutor for three academic partners (Mountbatten Programmes Ltd. (MPL), CPD Solutions and Professional Development Foundation (PDF), supporting and quality assuring their WBIS programmes.

Pip's teaches primarily on negotiated programmes of learning using the University's Work Based and Integrative Studies (WBIS) framework supporting adult learners who are working and studying. Her teaching experience is primarily in business and management disciplines including Leadership and Management, Strategic Management, Transition and Change Management, Project and Programme Management, Operations Management.

Pip's research interests centre around themes exploring negotiated work based learning, organisational resilience and how organisations can enable employees to thrive at work. She is also interested in organisational ambidexterity, authentic leadership and change management, and how HE learning can facilitate this.

ASET conference (2014). Exploration of the key factors to enable Negotiated Work Based Learning to be accepted within HE - a case based approach. Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne.

ASET conference (2013). What is Work Based Learning? A critical examination of the literature surrounding the concept of Work Based Learning. Greenwich University, London.

UALL conference (2013). Why does there appear to be so little evidence of Work Based/Work Related Learning within Higher Education? Birkbeck University, London,

UKAIS conference (2009). Newcomer or ‘Old Timer’? A critical evaluation of Lave & Wenger’s theory of Communities of Practice through the use of Socratic-type dialogue. University of Oxford, Oxford.

Perrin D., Weston., P., Thompson P., Brodie P. (2009). Facilitating Employer Engagement through Negotiated Work Based Learning: a case study from the University of Chester. DWP, HEFCE and the University of Chester.

MSc Business Information Technology
PG Diploma Business Information Technology
PG Certificate in HE
BA Secretarial Studies

Pip Weston