Principal Lecturer Business Systems and Teaching Fellow

Diane Richardson is Principal Lecturer in Project Management and has held senior management positions as head of department/division and in quality enhancement, also leading successful course validations and subject reviews, and chairing course approval panels. She is the Departmental Lead with professional bodies and has led successful applications for accreditation and re-accreditation from the Association of Project Management. She has undertaken external periodic review and approval panel member roles and has been external examiner for Masters courses (including MSc Project Management and MBAs).

She has over 30 years’ experience teaching and supporting learning at undergraduate and postgraduate level in Higher Education. She was awarded one of seven inaugural University Teacher Fellowships at De Montfort University in recognition of excellence in teaching and supporting student learning. She was De Montfort University’s nominee and University of Bedfordshire’s nominee for the National Teacher Fellow award in 2001 and 2007 respectively.

She brings great enthusiasm for innovation within the curriculum, to ensure an engaging learning experience for students, supporting employability. Diane uses her background and experience in Information Systems and Project Management to bring practical application of knowledge and theory into the classroom. In 2019, she nominated a group of her MBA students and they won the Association for Project Management (APM) Midlands Branch Student Group of the Year Award.

She is currently supervising five PhD students in Project Management, with research areas in Scope Management, Stakeholder Satisfaction, Quality Management, Project Management Tools and Techniques, and PRINCE2.

She has lead successfully Research Informed Teaching and Teaching and Learning Projects to inform curriculum design, content and assessment, and to develop peer assisted learning at post-graduate level.

Qualifications

• BSc (Hons) Mathematics and Computer Science (First) - University of Keele
• MSc Numerical Analysis and Computing - University of Manchester
• MA Learning and Teaching with dissertation on the development of higher order academic skills - De Montfort University
• Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• Corporate Membership of APM

Teaching Expertise

• Project management
• Quality assurance
• Academic skills

Research Interests

• Project management
• Teaching, learning and assessment, in particular, academic skill development

Recent Funding Awards

• 2016-2018       Lead, UoB Teaching & Learning Enhancement Grant, Evaluating Communities of Practice to Enhance Engagement and Results for Masters Dissertation Students (£2450)
• 2015-16           Lead, UoB Funded Teaching & Learning Project, Communities of Practice to support MSc Project Management Dissertation students (£3000)

External Roles

• External Examiner for MBAs and MSc Project Management
• External Panel Member for Periodic Reviews and Course Approvals
• Reviewer of journal/conference papers/book proposals, in the area of using technology in learning and teaching and project management
• HEA Reviewer/Assessor of Senior Fellow applications, funding bids and National Teacher Fellowship applications
• Professional Body (ACCA) Exam Marker
• Consultancy - Training courses for start-up companies, via Bedford Development Agency (session topics including time management, web skills, database design and project management)

Previous Roles

• Head of the Department of Business Systems at University of Bedfordshire
• Head of Division of Computing and Information Sciences, De Montfort University
• Faculty Deputy Head of Quality, De Montfort University
• Business Subject Team Leader, De Montfort University

Recent Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

• Bentley, Y., Richardson, D., Duan, Y., Philpott, E., Ong, V. and Owen D., (2012), Research-Informed Curriculum Design for a Master's-Level Program in Project Management, Journal of Management Education 1052562912458642, first published on September 14, 2012 as doi:10.1177/1052562912458642 (2*)
• Richardson, D. R. & Bukoye, T., (2018), The Impact of Communities of Practice on Masters Dissertations: a Small Scale Case Study of MSc Project Management, Journal of Pedagogic Development, Volume 7, Issue 5 (March, 2018).

Conference Presentations

• Richardson, D. R. & Kukhareva, M., (2018), Communities of Practice (CoP) – The Impact on Post Graduate Research Students, CABS LTSE Conference, Glasgow, April 2018.
• Richardson, D., Bukoye, T., Bentley, Y. and Haag, M., (2017), ‘Sharing Progress on the TLEG Project: Communities of Practice to Enhance the Learning Experience for PG Dissertation Students, UoB Staff Conference, Fringe Event, June 2017.
• Richardson, D. R., Bukoye, T. & Khilji, N., (2017), ‘Encouraging Student Engagement Through Communities of Practice’, Poster presented at UK Advising  and Tutoring (UKAT) Conference, Leeds Trinity University, 5^th-6^th April, 2017.
• Richardson, D. R., Bukoye, T., Khilji, N., Oyedepo, G., Edidiong, S. & Unuafe, E., (2017), ‘Collaborating with PhD Research Students to Enhance Masters Students Dissertation Learning Experience’, Paper presented at CABS LTSE Conference, Bristol, April 2017.
• Richardson, D.,  Bukoye, T., Edidiong, S. & Oko-Jaja, O., (2016), Establishing Communities of Practice, including PhD Students,  to Support Engagement of Masters Students  Doing Their Dissertations , Pecha Kucha presented at RAISE Conference, Loughborough, Sept 2016.
• Richardson, D., Bukoye, T., Unuafe, E. & Edidiong, S., (2016), Establishing Communities of Practice to Enhance the Learning

Contact Details

T: +44 (0)1234 793472
E: diane.richardson@beds.ac.uk