Chris Saunders
PhD student, Senior Teaching FellowProfessional Role
Senior Teaching Fellow & Associate Dean for Postgraduate Education
Profile
Chris Saunders is a Senior Teaching Fellow in the area of leadership, and is the Associate Dean for Postgraduate Education.
Chris is studying for a PhD exploring how leaders distil, and deploy principles or rules of thumb in their everyday acts of leading. He is a published author, with a textbook on Leadership with Oxford University Press (2nd edition).
Chris teaches leading responsibly and CSR. The majority of his teaching is for MBA students or executive education clients.
From 2015-2019 Chris was Executive MBA Director responsible for EMBA cohorts in the UK, Ghana and Malaysia. Prior to that Chris directed the full-time MBA programme 2010-2015. Outside of Lancaster Chris was a non-executive Board member and audit committee chair of Bolton at Home, a social housing business (2010-2017). He has previously worked in variety of public and private sector businesses, including EDS, Hounslow Council and as General Manager of a successful small business, the Golden Hinde Educational Museum Ship, a fully working replica of Sir Francis Drake’s 16th century sailing ship.
Current Research
PhD topic: The principles of leaders: exploring the development of individual guiding principles used by leaders in their everyday practice.
Current Teaching
MBA Core Course: FMBA 520 Leading Responsibly
MBA Core Course: FMBA514 Responsible Management & Ethics
Future Global Leaders
Responsible leadership on Executive Education programmes
External Roles
Chief External Examiner, University of Westminster
Former Board Member: Bolton at Home
Qualifications
MPhil in Critical Management (Lancaster)MBA (Lancaster)BA (Hons) in Ancient History (Newcastle upon Tyne)
Senior Fellow of the HEA
Developing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning workshop
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
- Centre for Scholarship and Innovation in Management Education