Lecturer in Strategy

Dr Shuo Wang is a Lecturer in Strategy in the Department of Strategy and Management at Bedfordshire Business School.

Dr Shuo Wang joined the University of Bedfordshire in 2021. Before moving to Bedfordshire, she worked at Essex Business School and Newcastle Business School where she was awarded her PhD in Human Resource Management.

Shuo has accumulated rich experiences in delivering and managing a range of Business Management and HRM modules/units at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels:

• Strategic Management for Business (UG);
• Entrepreneurship and Leadership for Business Ventures (UG);
• Academic and Career Development (UG);
• Managing People at Work (UG);
• Employability and Career Planning (UG);
• Strategic Management for Sustainable Leadership (UG);
• Specialist Projects (UG)
• Strategic Management for Competitive Advantage (PG)
• Integrated Management Projects (PG/MBA)

Shuo has rich experiences in supervising undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations/projects. She is also the Personal Academic Tutor for international students.

Shuo is currently the unit coordinator/leader for the following units:

• SHR016-3 Strategic Management for Business (UG)
• SHR004-3 Strategic Management (UG)
• SHR043-6 Integrated Management Projects (PG/MBA)

Research Interests

Dr Shuo Wang is an active and keen early career researcher. Her research interests include (but are not limited to) women's careers, healthcare workers and medical careers, work-life balance, emotions at work, and culture & HRM. Her current research focuses on female medical professionals' career development in China and the international comparative studies of female professionals' career development (qualitative studies).

Dr Shuo Wang is the main participant and coordinator of the running projects funded by the National Social Science Foundation (China). She is the academic lead for the University of Bedfordshire Doctoral Studentship Funding Scheme 2022 - UK Home Student Waiver PhD Scholarships Program/Project.

Research Areas

• Women's careers
• Gender and work
• Career choices and success
• Career transitions
• Healthcare workers & Medical careers
• Work-life interface (work-family balance and/or conflicts)
• Comparative studies

Research Student Supervisions

Dr Shuo Wang would like to hear the potential PhD candidates/topics from the following research areas (but are not limited to): career studies, gender and work, women's career choices and work-life balance, medical careers and healthcare workers, HRM strategies, employees' wellbeing, culture and careers. Welcome applicants who are interested in doing PhD, MPhil or MSc by Research in any topics relevant to my research interests.

Professional Memberships and Academic Services

• Member of Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)
• Member of the British Academy of Management (BAM)
• Member of the Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE)
• Academic Reviewer for Career Development International (CDI)
• British Association for Chinese Studies

Conference Presentations and Invited Talks

• Upward or Downward? Chinese Women Physicians' Career Transitions from Public Hospital to Private Hospital. University of Bedfordshire 2022 Research Conference. UK.
• Women and Global Entrepreneurship: Contextualising Everyday Experiences. British Academy of Management Online Conference, UK.
• Symposium on: Confucian Education Revival. Online Conference, China.
• Rethinking Confucian revival in contemporary China through empirical perspectives. Online Social Theory Workshop. Society, China.
• BPCS Conference 2020: China and the Shared Future: Transformation, collaboration, and challenges. Online Conference, UK.
• PGR virtual Mini-conference, Northumbria University, UK.
• SOAS Graduate Conference in Chinese Studies, University of London, London, UK.
• BPCS Annual Conference 2019: China's Global Role in the New Era, University of Cambridge, UK.
• Street Level Bureaucrats Research Seminar, Northumbria University Newcastle, Newcastle, UK.
• International Conference on the Changing Nature of Careers: Implications for a Sustainable World, Centre for Human Resource Development, India.
• Postgraduate Chinese Studies Conference 2018, University of Glasgow, UK.
• The Sociological Review and the History of the Discipline, Keele University, UK.
• CHEW Conference 2018, University of Oxford, UK.
• BACS Annual Conference, King's College London, UK.
• EACS 2018 Glasgow Conference, University of Glasgow, UK.
• UFHRD 2018 Doctoral Symposium, Northumbria University Newcastle, UK.
• BPCS Annual Conference, The University of Oxford, UK.
• Positioning Your Research for Impact and Interactive Data Visualisation, Northumbria University Newcastle, UK.
• Early Researchers Forum of The World Confucian Conference, China.
• BACS Annual Conference, The University of Glasgow, UK.
• BPCS Annual Conference, The University of Sheffield, UK.

Contact Details

E: shuo.wang@beds.ac.uk