Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Professor Silke Machold
Pro Vice Chancellor Research and Innovation
Silke Machold, PhD, is the Pro-Vice Chancellor Research and Innovation at Leeds Beckett University. Prior to joining Leeds Beckett University, she was the Dean of Research at the University of Wolverhampton and led on the institutional REF2021 submission. She is a Fellow of the European Academy of Management, and served as Vice-President for Governance for six years. Silke was a Visiting Professor at D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy, and the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, Lebanon.
Silke leads on Leeds Beckett’s research and innovation strategy, which has as its underlying purpose to make a positive and decisive difference to people, organisations and communities. Building on the success in REF2021 where 53% of our research was ranked 3* and 4*, we seek to grow our impact through our role as an anchor institutions in the Leeds City Region.
Research Interests
Silke's research interests are in board processes and behaviors and feminist perspectives on corporate governance, and she has published widely on these topics. She was the principal supervisor for a H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellowship on governance in SMEs (2017-2019) and PI of an EU Justice Department funded project on women in leadership in the Balkan countries.
In 2022, Silke was CI on a project funded by the Midlands Engine into women in business leadership in the Midlands. She is the former Editor of the International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics, she serves on the editorial board of the Cambridge Elements in Corporate Governance series by Cambridge University Press, and the is a member of the editorial board of Corporate Governance: An International Review.
Silke teaches and consults on governance and boards in the UK and overseas.
Contact
If you wish to contact Silke, please get in touch with her Executive Assistant below in the first instance.
