Dr Cheryl Gordon
Senior Lecturer
School of Business
Cheryl teaches across a range of subjects in Business and Management. With particular expertise in Retail Buying, her industry experience has led to collaborative award-winning commercial projects with AgeUK and St. Catherine's Hospice. In recognition of her contribution to leadership in the area of assessment, Cheryl is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She also supervises postgraduate and doctoral projects on Education subjects
In addition to retail related subjects, Cheryl teaches Management skills and practice in addition to enterprise and business projects. Cheryl has been closely involved with development of assessment practice within the Business and Management area and specifically
Cheryl is the Programme Leader for the P/T MBA programme, having previously led programmes in Retail Management and Fashion. Before joining the University, she worked as a retail buyer in the Department Store sector and has an extensive background in store management and design. Cheryl is passionate about using her previous experience to help third sector organisations develop their commercial and management skills in order to more effectively compete in a challenging funding environment. Cheryl's postgraduate and doctoral studies have been in education, with a focus on better understanding of the assessment process within Business and Management studies. She has been involved in a number of academic portfolio reviews as School Lead for Assessment, where she has been able to advance assessment practice across suites of practice. She has presented her research into assessment, and in particular workplace lessons for group assessment at a number of conferences in addition to writing a blog for the Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS)
- EdD Professional Practice in Higher Education, University of Central Lancashire 2018
- MEd Professional Practice in Higher Education, University of Central Lancashire 2012
- BA (Hons) Business Studies, University of Sheffield 1990
- Educate North Winner – Industry Collaboration Award 2019
- St. Catherine’s Hospice Business and Management undergraduate projects
- Educate North Finalist – Innovation Award 2018
- Age UK undergraduate Retail Management projects
- Retail Operations, Buying and Fashion Management
- Management Skills and Practice
- Designing assessment for Business and Management studies
- Senior Fellow - Higher Education Academy
- 2018 St Catherine's Hospice - Project working with the commercial team at St. Catherine’s Hospice to develop a strategy for product development and buying. This has involved collaborative workshops developing knowledge from both sides, market analysis, trend development and range planning exercises culminating in collaborative visits to International trade show with St.Catherine’s Hospice Trading team to discuss ranges with suppliers
- 2014-2018 Age UK WBE - This collaborative match-funded project with colleagues in subjects of Architecture, Design and graphics, Business Planning and Public Relations was aimed at remodelling charity retail to tackle two key third sector objectives: 1) community interaction and 2) income generation to fund space and delivery of this community interaction. The resulting design is a self-sustaining approach to flexible space usage within one central high-street charity location. The purpose of this is firstly to design retail space for income generation within commercial consumer markets, thus enabling any third sector organisation to move beyond traditional funding models. Secondly, using this initiative, the same space used to generate income can be transformed to space for service provision as and when needed, flexibly throughout the day, week, month or year. This project received a nomination for ‘Educate North’ Innovation award
- 2014 Wincton City - Project working with colleagues at Northumbria and Winchester Universities with HEA funding to develop an online fictional city which could be used to develop a number of student skill sets on a variety of programmes. These resources have been used as in-class case materials and activities, short-term assessments or longer term skills portfolios to exhibit problem solving, decision making, commercial acumen and digital skills
- Chartered Association of Business Schools Conference Manchester, 2019‘Workplace lessons for assessing group activities’
- HEA Conference, Newcastle, 2019‘Conceptualising models of collaborative and cooperative groupwork: A case study approach’
- Sharing Practice Conference the University of Central Lancashire July 2019“Assessment Confidence in the transition from FE to HE Business and Management studies”
- Sharing Practice Conference UCLan July 2014‘Assessment clarity, innovation and variety’
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