Professor Fiona Denney
Professor of Leadership and Business Education
- Organisations and People
Summary
I am a Professor in Leadership and Business Education in the Organisations and People division in Brunel Business School and my focus is on human-centred leadership. My research interests are focused on hybrid management and compassionate leadership in organisations including universities and the not-for-profit and public sectors. I hold a BA / Leverhulme grant for a project investigating the role of hybrid managers in universities. I am always interested to hear from prospective doctoral students whose interests align with my research areas.
In a career of over 20 years, I have been a business studies academic in the areas of marketing and general managment and leadership and I have held a number of central university positions. Between 2003 and 2019, I worked in academic staff and researcher development, including being the Assistant Director of the Graduate School at King’s College London and heading up the Brunel Educational Excellence Centre at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ¿â until 2019. Both of these positions plus my national and international work for Vitae (see ) have involved me in strategic leadership and operational management including managing people, projects and resources, which now form my research interests in leadership. I served as a member of the Executive Committee of the UK Council for Graduate Education as well as the Honorary Secretary between 2017 and 2021. I am also a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA).
I am currently an external examiner for the University of Lincoln's College of Social Science Research Degrees Board and have served as an external examiner in many other UK universities including UCL. I am also involved in providing consultancy work for Epigeum - a major developer of online training programmes for the higher education sector owned by Oxford University Press. I am a qualified and highly experienced executive coach and I coach senior executives in professional services industries as additional consultancy work.
Qualifications
PhD: An assessment of the strategies guiding end-user involvement in consumer durable new product development (awarded 2004)
MA Management Studies
Postgraduate Certificate in Higher and Professional Education
BA (Hons) American and Canadian Studies
Responsibility
I am currently the Director of Executive Education for Brunel Business School.
Newest selected publications
Denney, F. (2023) ''. Frontiers in Psychology, 14. pp. 1 - 14. ISSN: 1664-1078
Denney, F. (2022) ''.The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management: AOM 2022 Creating a Better World Together. Seattle, WA, USA. 6 - 9 August. Academy of Management. ISSN: 0065-0668
Denney, F. (2022) ''. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 0 (ahead of print). ISSN: 1537-260X
Denney, F. (2022) 'Building Bridges and Connections – The Language used to Connect and Define Communities in the Third Space', in McIntosh, E. and Nutt, D. (eds.) The Impact of the Integrated Practitioner in Higher Education. Abingdon, UK : Routledge. pp. 50 - 62. ISBN 13: 9780367480011.
Denney, F. (2021) ''. Educational Management Administration and Leadership, 51 (6). pp. 1440 - 1460. ISSN: 1741-1432