Ashley Roberts

phone: +44 (0)24 7652 4563

email: Ashley.Roberts@wbs.ac.uk

room: 2.126

Profile (biography)

Ashley is the Assistant Dean (Internationalisation) at WBS and has presented his research at many conferences, most recently at The Academy of Management, The British Academy of Management and as a visiting scholar at Harvard University.

As an Executive Team member for The British Academy of Management, he both formulates and implements strategy and policy. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, an Academic Member of The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, and Member of The International Centre for Research in Organizational Discourse, Strategy and Change.

He is a National Teaching Fellow, a winner of The Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence and is a Fellow of the Warwick International Higher Education Academy.

Ashley gained a PhD from Cardiff University where he also previously taught on a variety of courses at Cardiff Business School. Ashley teaches on Undergraduate and Warwick MBA courses. He is the module leader for the Undergraduate module 'Engaging with International Business: Strategic Luxury Leadership', a module that unites students from other Universities (such as Cornell University, Stellenbosch University and The University of New South Wales) with Warwick's own. His is also module leader for all Executive MBA Organisational Behaviour variants in London and the MBA elective module, ;Leading Global Organisations'.

Ashley is an editorial board member of the journal, The British Journal of Management, and publishes in and reviews for top-ranked academic journals. He also acts as External Examiner for the MBAs of other Russell Group Universities and holds Visiting Professorships at leading global institutions.

As well as teaching at Warwick and in London, Ashley has taught MBA Modules in Belgium, Chile, China, Dubai, Hong Kong, Italy and Singapore. Ashley has won the award for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching. In addition, each year Ashley wins an award for his outstanding contribution to Undergraduate teaching and he also receives the Warwick Business School Outstanding MBA Teacher Award annually.

Research interests

High Performance Work Systems, Creative Learning and Participatory Pedagogies, Luxury Leadership, Organisational Growth, and the Relationship between Organizational Culture, Leadership, Identity and Control.