ABOUT THE RESEARCH
The Special Interest Group for Leadership in Education (SIG for LinE) aims to:
- Facilitate impactful research and knowledge exchange activities for growth within the education sectors, particularly Higher Education (HE), with inclusivity and sustainability.
- Further research initiatives in areas of risk management and education governance that involve inclusivity and sustainability factors; and
- Facilitate publishing education, teaching and learning research outputs in quality journals (2*-4*) and create a wider impact.
The group focuses on cutting-edge work by individual researchers and teams, encouraging multi-disciplinary and discipline-specific research and engaging collaborations across disciplines and departments within OLC and with the involvement of academics from other UK universities and with researchers across the world.
The special interest group’s work is guided by and contributes to the OLC series of conferences that involve academics, staff, alumni and students from OLC colleges, partner colleges and partner universities. The group's outputs contribute to an understanding of EDI (equality, diversity and inclusion) frameworks in Higher Education, supports the OLC vision “We Lead in Excellence”, and represents the OLC founding ethos: “To improve our impact on society” by following the beliefs of:
“We believe everyone can grow through learning. We foster learning by doing, inclusively.”
“We use innovative teaching, consulting and training methods, applying academic theory to real world situations to inspire and develop skilled and experienced individuals.”
Projects
The Special Interest Group for Leadership in Education (SIG for LinE) take responsibility for encouraging staff and researchers at OLC Colleges to carry out research that makes a difference to the world. With this in mind, SIG for LinE provide the editorial and publication support for the OLC Education Journal and also provides the scientific committee and organisational skills for OLC College’s annual Higher Education Conference.
The current major project is a special edition of the journal:-
Management Dynamics in the Knowledge Economy
Special Issue–Developing Sustainable Higher Education Institutions
Guest Editors:
Dr Enis Elezi
University of Westminster Business School, United Kingdom
e.elezi@westminster.ac.uk
Dr Christopher Bamber
Managing Director Organisational Learning Centre, United Kingdom
c.bamber@olceurope.com
Dr Alireza Nazarian
University of Westminster Business School, United Kingdom
a.nazarian@westminster.ac.uk
Publications
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Book Chapter 4, titled “Factors Affecting Sustainable Higher Educational Partnerships.” In Strategies for Business Sustainability in a Collaborative Economy. IGI Global Publications, July 2020
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Bamber, C. (2020), Exploring Enterprise-Wide Risk Management from Preparation through to Program Evaluation in a UK, Independent Higher Education Institute, Evaluation and Program Planning: An International Journal, under review by Elsevier editors.
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Castka, P., Bamber, C. & Sharp, J.M. "Assessing best practice in teamworking", 2003, Journal of Measuring Business Excellence, Vol 7, No 4, pp 29-36.
People
- Dr Chris Bamber
- Dr Enis Elezi
- Dr Roshan Panditharathna
- Dr David Bamber
- Dr Allan Lawrence
- Dr Faical Chanour
- Dr Shajib Ullah
- Ms Nishigandha Shinde
- Mr Ernest Kwateng
- Mr Mathew Cox
- Mr Enock Tsapayi
- Mrs. Waseema Salehuddin