Professor Pushkar Jha profile

Pushkar Jha

Professor of Strategic Management

Professor

strategic learning; designing for innovation; knowledge creation; cross-sector collaboration; poverty alleviation; shared ownership

Department of Strategy and Leadership , Royal Docks School of Business and Law

Professor of Strategic Management; Faculty Director of Postgraduate Research Studies;  Department of Strategy and Leadership, Royal Docks School of Business and Law; Co-Director Noon Centre; 

Qualifications

  • PhD (Strategic Management) City University of London, UK
  • MPhil (Data Modelling) Newcastle University, UK
  • PGDRM (eq. MBA) IRMA, India
  • Fellow Higher Education Academy
  • Fellow Chartered Management Institute
Professor Pushkar Jha profile

OVERVIEW

Pushkar has a strong record as an academic leader with a clear strategic vision for business education. As Faculty Director (PGR) he has led revamping of recruitment, progression, and partnerships processes; launch of new programmes and; research culture enhancing initiatives. Previously, at Northumbria, he served as Faculty Director of PGR and as Principal Investigator for a UKRI-OfS funded project on advancing equity & inclusion. He held roles such as Director of Learning & Teaching and Research & Innovation Champion.

Pushkar maintains an active scholarly profile with publications in Research Policy, R&D Management, AoM Perspectives, among others. His paper in the AoM Perspectives won the best published paper award at the annual meeting of  Academy of Management and was also acclaimed by Chartered Management Institute (CMI). His research for the UK Gov & for John Lewis Partnerships, has been central to UK national policy on employee-owned businesses. Pushkar’s portfolio of prior business & policy influencing research includes studies for the International Chambers of Commerce, EMI, World Bank and the UNFPA.

External Engagements

  • External Examiner: Bayes (formerly Cass) Business School – Global MBA Programme. Also, several universities (Sheffield, UK, Manipal India)  as external on doctoral examinations.
  • Visiting/ Guest faculty positions over 2018-2023:  Bayes (formerly Cass) Business School; Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Rohtak India.
  • Academic Scholar:  Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism  (GRFDT)– 2017 – till date. Consortium of researchers and policymakers drawn from Asia, the Gulf, Africa, the US, Europe, Australia, and the Caribbean. Focusing specifically on issues related to migration, diaspora, and transnationalism.

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