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Prof Tony Wall

Liverpool Business School

Faculty of Business and Law

Email: T.Wall@ljmu.ac.uk

Telephone: 0151 231 2885

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Overview

Prof Tony Wall drives sustainable thriving with colleagues in Australia, France, New Zealand, Sweden, Vietnam and the US. He has a background in coaching and appreciative research approaches for organisational development which have been judged as 'world leading' (REF, 2021). Alongside his professorship at Liverpool Business School, he holds a visiting professorship at Stockholm University, and is ranked #1 globally in "management development" (Google Scholar). He has published 200+ works including articles in quartile 1 journals such as Nature Communications and The International Journal of Human Resource Management, as well as global policy reports with over 9 professional bodies (which have been translated into 20 languages). He has successfully supervised over 25 doctoral studies. His two-decades of impactful teaching and academic leadership has attracted prestigious recognition through The Advance-HE National Teaching Fellowship and multiple Santander International Research Excellence Awards.

Background

After winning competitive scholarships to study in Toronto, Warwick Business School, and Lancaster University Management School, Professor Wall worked as an innovation, creativity and business growth consultant with entrepreneurs. Supported by major European regional development funds, this work collaborated with researchers at the Revans Institute for Action Learning (now at Manchester Business School), and examined creativity and business growth networks with 1000s of actual or aspiring entrepreneurs.

He then took academic leadership of a £5mn portfolio, attracting competitive funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England. Since then, his academic leadership and innovative approaches to collaborating in interdisciplinary teams and networks across the globe have attracted or contributed to multiple major European projects worth over €830k and have reached Australia, the US, France, Spain, Estonia, Lithuania, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and so on.

Professor Wall established the International Centre for Thriving, a global scale collaboration between business, education, arts, and health. Here, he had strategic oversight of impact-oriented projects and programmes and institutional leadership for the global Intra-University Research Programme for Sustainable Development and the European School of Sustainability Science Research. He has led or contributed to projects worth over £3.5mn.

In addition to being a Deputy Editor for the largest Encyclopaedia for Sustainable Development in the world, he is on the editorial review boards for for quartile 1 journals including Academy of Management Learning & Education, Journal of Management Education, British Educational Research Journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Cleaner Production, The International Journal of Human Resource Management, and PloS ONE.

Degrees

University of Chester, United Kingdom, PhD
Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom, Doctor of Education
University of Chester, United Kingdom, MA
Chester Business School, University of Chester, United Kingdom, PGD Coaching & Facilitation
University of Chester, United Kingdom, PGCHE
Management School, Lancaster University, United Kingdom, MSc
Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, United Kingdom, BSc (Hons) Management Sciences

Certifications

2024, Advance HE, United Kingdom, Principal Fellow of Advance HE (PFHEA)
2024, Higher Education Export Control Association, Higher Education Strategic Export Controls
2020, Social Value International, Social Value & Social Return on Investment Associate Practitioner
2020, Web of Science / Publons Academy, Mentor Certificate
2020, Epigeum, Research Integrity Certificate
2019, Mental Health First Aid, Mental Health First Aider
2008, Association of Learning Technologists, Chartered Member
2008, SEDA - Staff & Educational Development Association, Supporting Learning with Technology Award
2008, SEDA - Staff & Educational Development Association, Enhancing Learning with Technology
2007, Association for Project Management, United Kingdom, PRINCE2 Certified Practitioner
2001, CIPD (Chartered Association of Personnel & Development), Chartered MCIPD
CABS (Chartered Association of Business Schools), Certified Management & Business Educator
EMCC (European Mentoring & Coaching Council), Member

Academic appointments

Faculty Associate Dean & Professor, Liverpool John Moores University, 2023 - present
Professor, Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University, 2022 - present
Education Outstanding Doctoral Research Award Program, Emerald Publishing and the Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association, 2021 - present
New Frontiers in Research Fund Reviewer, Government of Canada, 2021 - present
Publons Academy Mentor, Clarivate Web of Science, 2020 - present
Visiting Professor, Stockholm University, 2020 - present
Expert (Creative Europe), European Commission, 2020 - present
ESRC Accelerated Business Collaboration ECR and PGR - Writing Retreat / Mentoring Lead, Durham University, 2020 - 2021
Expert Reviewer, Medical Research Council, 2019 - present
Expert Reviewer, Economic and Social Research Council, 2019 - present
Expert - UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship scheme, UK Research and Innovation, 2019 - present
Professor & Head of the International Centre for Thriving, Chester Business School, University of Chester, 2017 - 2021
Standards Expert - Business Mentor Training and Certification, ERASMUS+, 2016 - present
Chair, The Edge of Experiential Education Symposium, 2016 - 2016
Visiting Professor, University of Wyoming (US), 2015 - 2016
Visiting Professor, Work and Learning Research Centre, Middlesex University, 2015 - 2018
Visiting Professor / Scholar, Centre for Educational Futures & Innovation Research, Deakin University (Australia), 2013 - 2016
Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader, Chester Business School, University of Chester, 2010 - 2017
Head of Flexible Learning, Centre for Flexible Learning, York St John University, 2007 - 2010
Lecturer - Innovation, Creativity & Enterprise Facilitator, Innovation Academy, University of Salford, 2001 - 2007

Postgraduate training

Research Directors’ Programme, United Kingdom, Chartered Association of Business Schools, 2021 - 2021
Wellbeing (Predictive Medicine Gene Therapy / Innovation in health and social care practice / Animals at the extremes: Polar biology / Health and wellbeing in the ancient world), United Kingdom, The Open University, 2020 - 2020

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