Dr Moira Nikodem
| Post Nominals | LLB, MA (Hons), MRes, PhD, SFHEA |
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| Biography | Moira has sixteen years of teaching experience in organisational behaviour/human resource management across five Scottish higher education institutions. She joined RGU in 2019 from the University of Glasgow Adam Smith Business School where she remains an Affiliate Lecturer. Her first degree is an LLB, working for several years after in commercial roles. Latterly a Business Manager (Education) in local government, she coordinated non-curricular functions (including Staffing) across a network of secondary and primary schools. She later completed an accelerated MA (1st), MRes (dist) and PhD, all in Management Studies, at the University of Aberdeen, and has a PG Certificate in Narrative Research from the University of East London. |
| Research Interests | Key research interests are qualitative projects on diversity and inclusion, learning and development and evidence-based HR. Her doctoral research, awarded the CHAP scholarship, explored the subjective experience of careers and retirement, in particular the intersectional influence of gender, class, ethnicity, ageing and generation; this involved collating and analysing the life stories of women retired from principle careers in education. Earlier research projects included career gender stereotyping in school education and the management of emotion in inter-collegial relationships. Since joining RGU, Moira has undertaken two consultancy projects both evaluations of organisational learning interventions. She is currently researching the relevance and application of evidence-based HR with Dr Susan Reid Elder. |
| Teaching and Learning | Moira teaches on a wide range of PG, UG and commercial courses. At RGU she coordinates Equality, Diversity and Inclusion on the MSc HRM and Human Resource Development on BA Business Studies on campus, Graduate Apprentice and distance learning programmes. On the MSc IHRMD at the University of Glasgow she coordinates Developing Skills for Business Leaders and the Collaborative Online Interactive Learning (COIL) partnership elective Justice, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion with Nijmegen School of Management, Radboud University which involves a consultancy project with an international client. Moira has extensive supervision experience from across institutions of MBA, MSc and UG research proposals and dissertations in areas including diversity and inclusion, learning and development, employee participation and voice, and wellbeing and emotion. She has three PhD supervision completions (gender and intersectionality in developing economy finance sector; soft skills development in developing economy health supply chains; employee engagement in the third sector) and is currently supervising one PhD (emotional labour in the UK and South African care sector). Moira led substantial areas of RGU's MSc HRM revalidation with CIPD reaccreditation, in particular redesign of programme level aim and learning outcomes and modular level specifications and content. She also plays an active role as a member of ABS' Ethics Committee which is responsible for overseeing the maintenance and enhancement of ethical standards in student and staff research across the school |
| PhD Supervision Availability | Yes |