John Byrne

Programme Leader for BA (Hons) Business Management and Business Manager with Law. Senior Lecturer in the Department of Strategy, Enterprise and Sustainability. I teach Professional Development and Business Consultancy to undergraduates on the Business Management degree. Working closely with our Careers and Employability Service, I ensure our students are equipped to access to placements and shorter internships through our RISE programme. I also encourage those students who want to study abroad to take advantage of the opportunities to study with our network of partner universities across the world. Both of these are key features of the Business Management programme and reflect our commitment to offering students experiential opportunities to underpin the learning of knowledge. I am committed to our university strategy to be a place leader for sustainability, putting sustainability at the heart of our curriculum. My commitment to supporting our students in their personal and professional development has led to putting a strengths based approach at the heart of our development programme, helping students to identify what makes them unique, and those areas of unrealised strengths which they can develop through the course of their degree. I love teaching business consultancy to our undergraduate students on Business Management because it gives them the opportunity to gain real-world experience with businesses as part of their degree.

I have been a member of the Senior Management team for the Department of Strategy, Enterprise and Sustainability (SES) since the department was formed in 2017. My previous role within the Department was that of Department Manager, with an oversight of department operations and programme delivery. I have been a member of the faculty quality committee, faculty lead for study abroad, and contributed to the achievment of the EQUIS accreditation. Prior to the formation of the SES department, I worked as a Programme Support Tutor and Programme Coordinator within the Department of Management between 2015 and 2017 

Words of wisdom

To first years, the most important thing about the work you do is the feedback you receive, not the marks you attain. As an undergraduate, I was dissappointed with the some of my early marks at university, but the feedback I received and the advice it contained is etched on my memory and I applied it to subsequent work which was fundamental to my academic development.