Patrick is Senior Lecturer in Management Practice and leads on student skills- and career-development and employer engagement for the School of Business and Management at QMUL.
Patrick was previously Head of Human Resources and Organisational Behaviour at the University of Greenwich and has several years of experience of management education for corporate clients across multiple sectors in the UK and Germany.
At QMUL, Patrick teaches various modules concerned with leadership and management practice at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Patrick has a PhD from the London School of Economics, and holds a Dipl. Betriebswirt, BA Hons, MA and PGCE (Postgraduate Certificate in Education).
Patrick is external examiner for the BA Business Management and the OTH Regensburg partnership at Oxford Brookes University and an appointed member of the Mayor of London’s Skills for Londoners Stakeholder Advisory Group.
Experience
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–presentSenior Lecturer in Management Practice, Queen Mary University of London
Education
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2012London School of Economics, PhD Industrial Relations
Publications
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2019Local employer engagement or distant elites? Local Enterprise Partnerships and employment and skills in England, Journal of Education and Work
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2017Editorial introduction: An introduction to employer engagement in the field of HRM. Blending insights from social policies and human resource policies, Human Resource Management Journal
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2016Apprenticeships in England: impoverished but laddered, Institute of Construction Economics Research
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2013Olympic Volunteering for the Unemployed: who benefits and how?, International Journal of Employment Studies
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