Faculty Bio

Teaching in the Department of Human Resource Management, Gillian holds a first degree in Organisation Studies and an MSc Analysis of Decision Processes. Gillian has also significant experience of management practice with her early career concerning overseas operations management for large, global travel organisations. Here Gillian was responsible for organising, co-ordinating and contracting pan-European transport and accommodation services and later developed and managed her own travel and accommodation business based in Greece. Building upon her industrial experience, Gillian has delivered and organised management education programmes over a period of fifteen years. She has taught upon postgraduate programmes at the Universities of Abertay, Edinburgh, and Dundee and was appointed to the University of Strathclyde in May 2013. Pursuing her interest in knowledge intensive industries and the development of high-skilled professional workers, Gillian has previously managed specialist MBA programmes for Life Science Industries, and the University of Dundee’s globally recognised Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Resources Law, and Policy. At the University of Strathclyde Gillian continues to pursue a particular interest in cross-boundary professional working.