Dr Stephen Gibbs, PhD
- Principal Lecturer in Business and Leadership
- Institute of Business, Industry and Leadership
- Business
- Email: stephen.gibbs@cumbria.ac.uk
- Mobile: 07544 581601
- Location: Carlisle - Fusehill Street
Biography
With background as a logistics executive and nearly a decade as a managing director, along with an exemplary academic career, Stephen’s areas of expertise are in business leadership, strategic leadership and global management/leadership.
Stephen is portfolio leader for our business and leadership programmes. He has a strong understanding of leadership and place, being the Founder of the Carlisle community group that supports recovery from the devastating 2015 floods.
Qualifications and memberships
PhD (Lancaster)
Executive MBA (Lancaster)
PGCert(Mgt) (Open)
PCPD (Huddersfield)
MCMI
FHEA
Awards:
2012 - University of Huddersfield Teaching and Learning Institute: ‘Inspirational Teaching’.
Academic and research interests
PhD: Late-modern voices of Leader-Self: Towards a Bakhtinian hermeneutic of senior-leadership interiority and orthodox purpose
An interdisciplinary study drawing on the scholarship of Mikhail Bakhtin and Zygmunt Bauman to examine ‘senior leadership voices’ and their relationship with orthodox notions of purpose in late-modern globalisation.
As globalisation shifts during period of late-capitalism notions of strategy, purpose and progress are also adjusting for senior leaders. Working with senior leaders research considers new notions of value-creating strategic purpose. This includes considering how strategic value is maintained in a boardroom environment.
Research supervision
Strategic leadership
Executive leadership
Global leadership
Strategic change
Methodologies:
Hermeneutics
Reflexive methodologies
Publications
2020 - 'A 21-point starter list for maintaining your business during Covid-19 crisis'. In: University of Cumbria <https://www.cumbria.ac.uk/blog/articles/a-21-point-starter-list-for-maintaining-your-business-during-covid-19-crisis.php>
2020 - 'How to develop shrewd senior leaders who will address northern Britain's productivity challenge'. In: University of Cumbria <https://www.cumbria.ac.uk/blog/articles/how-to-develop-shrewd-senior-leaders-who-will-address-northern-britains-productivity-challenge.php>
2020 - 'Leadership at the heart of the new Institute of Business, Industry and Leadership'. In: University of Cumbria <https://www.cumbria.ac.uk/blog/articles/leadership-at-the-heart-of-the-new-institute-of-business-industry-and-leadership.php>
2019 - ‘A new voice for northern leadership in the 4th industrial age: picking up from where the Northern Leadership Academy left off’. In: University of Huddersfield Research Festival, University of Huddersfield, 8-10 January 2019.
2018 - ‘Discursive Process of Leadership: A Leadership Dialogue and Bakhtinian Approach to Leadership Learning’. In: 10th Developing Leadership Capacity Conference (DLCC), University of West of England, Bristol, 12-13 July 2018, with Reynolds, K.
2016 - ‘Is it really so bad to have a business mogul as president?’ The Conversation. ISSN 2044-5032
2016 - ‘It's politics - but not as we know it’ News & Star, pp. 10-10 with Brown, J.
2016 - UK Resilience: A Question of Governance: University of Huddersfield.
2016 - ‘Outline working proposal: Cumbria River Catchments Authority’. In: Cumbria Floods Partnership, 22 April 2016, Hallmark Hotel, Carlisle, Cumbria, UK.
2016 - ‘Strategic Overview and Journey to Full Protection’. In: Floods Meeting: Fighting for a Safe City, 4 April 2016, Crown and Mitre Hotel, central Carlisle.
2016 - ‘Our future city’ Carlisle Living, pp. 42-45. ISSN 9771758 207119 with Vaughan, G., Young, S., Sier, A., Chalmers, D. and Ashcroft, K.
2016 - (2016) ‘The floods: Where do we go from here?’ Cumbria Life, pp. 34-36. ISSN 9771354162119.
2012 - Resistant Self in Leadership: A Hermeneutical Conundrum. In: Northern Leadership Academy Conference 2012, 19 June 2012, Durham Business School.
2011 - Leadership and Self in Modern and Contemporary Literature: Should leadership Thought Re-conceive Self Through Literature Discourse and Representations? In: British Academy of Management BAM 2011, (full paper) 13-15 September 2011, Birmingham, UK.
2011 - Revelation, Verisimilitude and ‘Drama’ in Modern Strategic Leadership. In: University of Cumbria Doctoral Colloquium, 7 July 2011, University of Cumbria, Lancaster Campus.
2011 - Co-produced Autoethnography in Leadership Research - Methods at the Margins. In: University of Huddersfield Research Festival, 28 March 2011, 28 March 2011, University of Huddersfield.
2011 - Co-produced Autoethnography in Leadership Research (poster). In: University of Huddersfield Research Festival, 28 March 2011.
2010 - Leadership and Existentialism: Building a Groundwork, University of Cumbria Doctoral Colloquium, 14 July 2010, University of Cumbria, Lancaster Campus.
2010 - Opening Space to the Community: Action Learning at a Community Level, Action Learning: Research and Practice, ISSN 1476-7333, 7:1, pages 111 – 116 with Gold, J.; Cuthbert, M.; Young, S.; Doyle, P.
2008 - The Possibility of Possibilities: Skills to Grow a Career in Computing and Business, Liberecke Informaticke Forum, Sbornik Konference, ISBN 978-80-7372-408-5 pages 110- 123, with Wraith, P.
Recent external roles
External Examiner - University of the West of Scotland