Dr.
Tom Cockburn
 Tom
gained his first degree with honours from
Leicester University, his MBA and Doctorate from
Cardiff University in Wales. He also has
professional teaching qualifications and
e-moderator certification gained from the
University of Wolverhampton, in England, the
University of Ulster Lifelong Learning
Institute, Waikato Institute of Technology in
New Zealand and the EdExcel Foundation in
London.
Tom has had over 20 years of successful and
largely enjoyable experience of research and
consulting for a diverse range of organisations
in both the public and the private sector. He is
open to having some more such engagements in
future too. His research and corporate
consulting interests overlap both tacit and
explicit components of collective knowledge
development in work teams’ learning and talent
management on projects. His research pioneered a
new form of collaborative action research tools
and techniques used in his consulting work in
the UK, New Zealand and Australia.
The title of Tom’s Doctoral thesis is
“Communities of Commitment: Leadership, Learning
Spirals, Teamwork and Emotional regimes on an
MBA, 1997-1999”. The title reflects his
interests in the collective emotional energy
driving commitment and anxiety as well as trust
on project teams. His current research interests
include leadership, governance, sustainability
and the patterned relationships formed in the
emergent emotional webs of work teams. He has
developed a complexity-based model of project
team emotional development and their embodied
learning-in-action. Tom has presented at
international conferences and published in
academic journals in the EU, USA, and
Australasia on a range of topics for 20 years.
Tom has had eight years experience as Head of a
Business school in the UK leading major change
initiatives and has also held similar
responsibilities in his deputy HoD role in NZ.
He has been cited in government and
intergovernmental agency reports on lifelong
learning, business and, management education and
corporate E-learning.
He has lectured on degree programmes in the UK,
EU and Australia as well as the University of
Waikato Management School and Waikato Institute
of Technology, in New Zealand.
In addition to teaching on undergraduate
programmes
he has designed and delivered MBA and Executive
Education programs, over a number of years and
tailored Corporate and professional development
programmes
for senior managers in both public and private
sector in the UK, New Zealand and in Australia.
He has extensive assessment and evaluation
experience and has been commissioned to carry
out reviews of MBA and Executive programmes at
universities in the UK, EU and Malaysia.
Tom is a member of the editorial board for the
U.K. Journal of Further & Higher Education
and is also a contributing editor on the
board of Interface journal, based in the
Berglund Institute at Pacific University in
Oregon, USA. He is also compiling a book of case
studies and a monograph on his research. |
