Professor Radka Newton
Personal ChairResearch Interests
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Strategy as practice
- Organsiational transformation and impact on identity
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Service design in HE context
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Organisation culture and its impact on continuous improvement implementation
Profile
Perosonal Chair in Management Education and Innovation
Radka has 15 years of senior input into global educational networks with proven reputation for developing collaborative and cross-functional teams. Before she came to the UK in 2002, she managed her own English language teaching company, published as series of Czech/English dictionaries.
Radka has held a variety of positions in Lancaster for the past 11 years. She has developed an International professional team, student recruitment and conversion team, Effective learning team and led admissions team. After ten years in a senior leadership function she decided to pursue her passion for teaching and research and become a senior teaching fellow in the Department of Entrepreneurship and Strategy.
Her overarching research interest is in the deployment of service design and process improvement in organisations with the focus on the impact of service operations on applicant and student experience underlined by analysis of capacity and demand management.
Her current research investigates the impact of organisational culture on service design and continuous improvement and the role of resistance in organisation change programmes.
Qualifications
ILM 7 Certificate in Executive Coaching and Mentoring, Manchester University, 2017 – 2018, Manchester, UK
Exec MBA, Lancaster University - MBA FT ranked Top 4 in the UK, Distinction, Dissertation topic: Improvement of student experience through service design: understanding the link between organisational culture and student service operations, 2014 – 2016, Lancaster, UK PG Certificate in HE Management and Administration, Association of University Administrators, 2010 –2012, Manchester, UK
Certificate in Academic Practice Module 1, Lancaster University - 2009 Diploma in International Trade, Institute of Export, 2004 –2006, MANCAT, Manchester, UK PhD, Applied Linguistics, 2001 –2004; Palacky University - Top 3 in the Czech Republic (Visiting Researcher in Salford University, UK and University of Limerick, Ireland) MA in Spanish and English Language Studies, 1995 –2001; Palacky University BA in Teaching English as a Foreign Language, 1992 –1995, Palacky University
Current Teaching
Postgraduate modules:
- ENSI531: Design Thinking and Innovation
- ENSI585: Professional Development
- MNGT611: Strategic Management
- CEMBA505: Strategic Management
- FMBA 517: Consultancy Challenge
- ENSI536: Innovation lab
External Roles
Adjunct faculty in Catolica Porto Business School, Porto, Portugal
Research Overview
2022 - present Founder and Director of Centre for Scholarship and Innovation in Management Education (SIME)
- Established a scholarship of teaching and learning community to prove the concept of
the need to promote innovation in management education and to inspire evidence-based excellence in our pedagogy in response to the changing nature of learning.
- Awarded a research centre status to develop a collaborative and interdisciplinary space through which we will explore the future of teaching and scholarship in management education.
Lancaster Evaluation Group
13/02/2024 → 31/07/2024
Research
Design thinking for Higher Education - Advance HE Workforce of the future
01/12/2023 → 01/07/2024
Research
Dissertation in Place
01/09/2023 → 30/06/2025
Research
IAA: IN-PLACE: Connecting Design and Policy for meeting Net-ZERO targets
01/09/2023 → 31/03/2025
Research
Co-creating sustainable communities: Dissertation In Place
01/08/2023 → 31/07/2024
Research
Regenerative place stewardship in local entrepreneurial ecosystems
01/08/2023 → 31/03/2024
Research
I-Connect: Co-designing Sustainable Communities
01/11/2022 → 31/07/2023
Research
IAA - AHRC Impact Acceleration Account
01/04/2022 → 31/03/2026
Research
Innovation Across Boundaries: Implementing Design Thinking Practices in Innovation Ecosystems and Policy Making in Germany and the United Kingdom
01/09/2021 → 30/09/2024
Research
Transforming Communities: Placed-based new venture planning through the inter-connectivity of enterprise and design
01/08/2021 → 31/07/2023
Research
Corpus Analysis of Sellafield Employee Forum and Interviews
18/01/2021 → 31/03/2021
Research
Improving student experience with service design
01/09/2019 → 30/07/2022
Research
Organizational change at Magnox Reprocessing Plant
01/05/2018 → 31/03/2021
Research
Integrating design thinking into management education
01/01/2018 → 31/08/2020
Research
SIME Summer Fest
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
CiviCon24
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
CiviCon24
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Design Thinking 4 Higher Education
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Lancaster Evaluation Group Seminars
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Collaboratory 2 – INSIGHT
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Developing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning workshop
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Hunter Center for Entrepreneurship, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK (External organisation)
Membership of committee
Design Thinking 4 Higher Education - Discovery
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Place-making + policy design = NET-0
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
I-Connect Project
Invited talk
Empathy in curriculum design
Oral presentation
Using Blogs and Social Media for Scholarship in Management Education
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Roll into Spring: Lune Valley Family Fun Day
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Electech: Trade-offs in Place-based Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
Oral presentation
Instagram in Economics modules: transformative impact of integrating social networks into learning
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
The utility of user personas in higher education development projects
Invited talk
FutureDesignEd 2020: Updating values - San Marino, Italy (Event)
Publication peer-review
Pilkington Teaching Award
Prize (including medals and awards)
- Centre for Scholarship and Innovation in Management Education
- Pentland Centre