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Dr Scott Foster

Liverpool Business School

Faculty of Business and Law

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Biography:

Dr Scott Foster joined Liverpool John Moores University in May 2013 having previously spent over 20 years working within the private sector (General Manager). Scott has also previously spent seven years at Mercedes Benz as a Financial Controller. This was mainly in the UK, but with extensive experience of working internationally. Scott has also served as an Infantry Soldier, serving in multiple countries including working for the United Nations peace keeping force.

My principal areas of research include ethical leadership, spirituality, mindfulness, and meaningful work. Publications are primarily focused on the promotion of management insights generated through the interconnection of practice and theory, where change, discovery and innovation are driven by applied work-based, collaborative, and experiential approaches. My academic career has prioritised research and teaching that closely relate to practice, with a particular interest in stakeholders who enable positive work cultures and, through wellbeing initiatives, make a critical impact in their communities.

My scholarly-practice research involves the active engagement of stakeholders, especially those who create a more equal partnership between employees and organisations. A strong focus of interest concerns the potential of management research to change employee experiences that are enacted through engagement and a co-creation of innovative ideas and knowledge. In this way, my approach concerns ‘impact’ and collaborative working with user groups. My research approach extends to exploring ways managers develop policies and procedures to enable employee-centred practice, especially in the development of an understanding of diversity within workforce culture,

Scott has supervised in excess of 30 doctoral students to successful completion and has examined over 60 PhD/DBAs as an external and an internal examiner at International, UK and non-UK Higher Education Institutes.

The work Scott has done in doctoral education has been acknolwedge in Aug 2022 by LJMU Professorship and Readership Conferment Panel where it has been conferred upon Scott the title; Reader in Postgraduate Research Culture in recognition of the significant contribution to the development of the subject.

Degrees

John Moores University, United Kingdom, PhD, MRes, MBA, ACA

Academic appointments

Reader in Postgraduate Research Culture, School of Doctoral Management, Liverpool John Moores University, 2022 - present
PhD Programme Leader, Liverpool John Moores University, 2022 - present
Senior Lecturer, Bussiness studies, Liverpool Business School, 2015 - 2022
Senior Lecturer, HRM, Liverpool Business School, 2013 - 2015

Postgraduate training

Horizon 2020, United Kingdom, Liverpool John Moores University, 2014 - 2014
Grant and fund bidding, United Kingdom, Liverpool John Moores University, ? - present

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