Christine Daley, Course Director

Christine Daley

Course Director

Christine is a professional and passionate educator with over 20 years’ experience in higher education. She has worked extensively at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She is postgraduate course director for human resource management and academic coordinator for the subject group.

As course director for the Postgraduate courses in Human Resource Management and Learning and People Development, Christine works closely with the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. She led the most recent course validation which led to accreditation at the CIPD's new standards.

As Academic Coordinator for the Leadership, Governance and People Management subject group, Christine is responsible for assessment quality. Her role involves advising colleagues on assessment design, matters such as academic integrity and artificial intelligence, and working with key stakeholders such as external examiners and liaising with professional and statutory and regulatory bodies (PSRBs).

Christine has mentored colleagues in course leadership, module leadership, learning, teaching and assessment, and student support. She joined the university as a Tutor Facilitator, employing her expertise in training and work-based learning to support adult learners on a wide range of workforce development programmes based within organisations throughout Yorkshire and Humberside.

Since joining the university, Christine has developed and led over 20 modules at postgraduate and undergraduate level including Key Principles of HRM (H7), Performance and Reward (H7), Work Placement (H6), Developing People (H6), Human Resource Management (H5), and Skills Development for Business (H4).

Before entering education, Christine worked in resourcing and performance management roles. A period working in purchasing and logistics for a large NHS Trust, provided a key opportunity to design, develop and deliver staff training courses for key stakeholders. This sparked her interest in a career in learning and development, and formal education.

Many years ago, when she embarked on her undergraduate studies, Christine became the first in her family to enter higher education. She was fortunate to discover a life-long passion for learning. Therefore she is particularly interested in supporting fellow 'first-generation' students, mature students and others from similar non-traditional backgrounds. She is currently completing her studies for the Professional Doctorate in Education. Her doctoral research explores the experiences of nongraduate students admitted to postgraduate courses in human resource management, through the the recognition of their prior experiential learning.

Christine believes in supporting students and tutors to engage in active student-centred learning, employing peer-learning and problem-based approaches in the classroom. Her pedagogy aims to facilitate experiential learning through reflection and reflexive practice. She is actively involved in interactive and innovative learning approaches, and pioneered techniques such as audio feedback and effective peer assessment within Leeds Business School.

Current Teaching

  • MSc Human Resource Management
  • Postgraduate Diploma Human Resource Management
  • MSc Learning and People Development
  • Postgraduate Diploma Learning and People Development

Research Interests

Christine's doctoral studies focus on the experiences of postgraduate human resource management students, who are experienced practitioners, but have not completed an undergraduate degree. Taking a hermeneutic, phenomenological research approach, she is exploring the students' experiences on their course and the extent to which prior life and work experience acts as a substitute for academic attainment.

Christine Daley, Course Director

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  1. Business
  2. Education
  3. Human resource management
  4. Teaching