Thomas joined ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø University in 2023 and is Head of ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø Business School and Senior Lecturer in Management with a focus on International Marketing and Entrepreneurship.
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Thomas was previously Director of Glasgow Caledonian University’s British School of Leadership and Management in London. Prior to joining academia, Thomas worked in a range of different roles internationally in small and medium sized organisations in the private and third sector across a range of service industry contexts from educational travel to fashion e-commerce.
His main responsibilities included coordinating and restructuring processes and information flows to meet customer needs in different international markets. Thomas is a Senior Fellow with AdvanceHE (formerly Higher Education Academy) with a passion for cross culturally inclusive learning.
He has worked on institutionally seed-funded QAA Scotland Enhancement Theme projects with focus on international student transitions and group work within UK Higher Education but contributed to a number of Erasmus+ funded capacity building projects; specifically on international inclusive programme design (), ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍøment of intercultural competence in higher education staff in Latin America () and enhancing blended learning and curriculum design as part of FinTech master programmes in Southeast Asia ().
- International Entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurial Cognition
- Internationalisation of SMEs (Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises)
- Business Process (Re-) Engineering to suit international requirements
- Cross-cultural consumption
- Comparative international consumer behaviour Sustainability
- Soft systems methodology
- Experiments
- Surveys and other quantitative methods
- Focus groups & interviews and other structured qualitative approaches
- Associate Member of the Centre for Applied Social Sciences
Thomas' primary teaching areas include international marketing, entrepreneurship and information management at undergraduate and postgraduate level. He has a keen interest in embedding sustainability, corporate citizenship and associated concepts in his teaching. His approach to learning, teaching and assessment is characterised by a commitment to digitally enhanced and inclusive learning environments. Thomas also supervises undergraduate honours and postgraduate projects.
