Chair in Responsible Business

Job Purpose

This is a new post that is part of an exciting and generously (externally) funded new Centre for Responsible Business. It forms part of the Birmingham Business School’s continuing strategic commitment to the expansion with the aim of developing its research profile and contributing to teaching of business ethics and corporate governance in the School’s thriving undergraduate and masters programmes in Birmingham and overseas. It is expected that the successful applicant will have strong teaching, including PhD. supervision, and research leadership qualities in the field of Business Ethics, or a closely related field, and a willingness to serve as head of the Centre when the opportunity arises.

The successful candidate will be able to make a strong contribution to REF 2021 as well as teaching quality assessments, programme development and research funding applications.

The College comprises four Schools; the Birmingham Business School together with the Schools of Education, Government and Society and Social Policy.
The four Schools collectively offer a large and diverse set of successful undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing professional development programmes ranging from the traditional subject-specific campus-based undergraduate degree programme, such as the BA in Economics, through to postgraduate taught courses, including MA, MSc and MBA courses, and graduate research programmes to short courses and web based continuing professional and management development opportunities. The College of Social Sciences is the largest college on campus in terms of student numbers with over 30% of the University’s students, some of whom are registered at the University for four years whilst others are here for only a few months. Around 20% of the CoSS student body is international, although this percentage is much higher in the Business School.
The Birmingham Business School is a dynamic and internationally-focused Business School offering programmes across the full range of Business School disciplines. The School has been a major player in business education for more than a century and it continues to invest in its academic staff and facilities as it works towards its ambition of becoming a Top Ten UK and internationally recognised Business School. The School has recently opened a state-of-the-art Postgraduate Teaching Centre in 2016 and is currently in the planning stages of developing a £25m extension and refurbishment to University House, home to BBS. The School currently comprises nine departments (under review) and employs over 200 academic staff, around 80 professional services staff and teaches around 5000 students. The School has an ambitious growth agenda and expects student numbers to grow considerably over the next five years.

The new Centre for Responsible Business has funding for two Research Fellows (one Senior), a senior administrator, plus clerical support, and a Communications Manager, as well as this new chair in Responsible Business and its Director is Professor Andy Mullineux. It will sit within the Business School alongside its growing array of high profile and complementary, engaged and influential research centres: CHASM (Centre on Household Asset and Savings Management; CREME (Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship); and City REDI (Regional Economic Development Institute)

Person Specification

Essential:

• A reputation for excellence in scholarship and research into ‘responsible business’ and its underpinning disciplines, including publications in good refereed journals and grant awards.
• Established track record as an experienced and innovative education leader.
• Experience of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and administration at different levels, including successful supervision of PhD’s to completion.
• A PhD in a relevant field and/or professional qualification(s).
• Excellent presentation skills and a collegial attitude.
• Experience of working with, and mentoring/leading other staff in an research and education, or similar, environment.
• Ability to work across institutional and discipline boundaries