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Professor Peter Bryant
Associate Dean (Education), University of Sydney
Professor Peter Bryant is an award-winning academic with international expertise in designing and delivering successful strategic educational change in both business and social sciences instituions. He has thirty years of teaching and research experience in both the UK and Australia, in the areas of higher education strategy, educational innovation, online learning and creative industries management.
He has worked as an academic and educational leader in several leading UK and Australian institutions prior to joining the University of Sydney Business School, including the London School of Economics and Political Science, the University of Greenwich and Middlesex University. He holds a PhD in Management from the University of Technology, Sydney.
Peter is the Co-Director of the Disruptive Innovations in Business Education Research Group. This active and transformative group seeks to better understand the futures of business education in a post-pandemic world and the role of business education is educating leaders for good. He is an active researcher and speaker on innovative teaching and learning, educational spaces, learning technology, the future of Business School education and opportunities of student co-design.
Peter is a Trustee of the Association for Learning Technology, which supports the professional and policy development of staff using educational technology. He is the Chair of the Editorial Board for the peer reviewed open access journal Research in Learning Technology.
Professor Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas
Professor of Marketing and Sustainable Business, Glasgow Caledonian University
Professor Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas joined GCU London in August 2019 as Reader in Marketing and Sustainable Business. Natascha was partner in award-winning luxury childrenswear fashion label Miss Fleur before becoming a full-time academic at the London College of Fashion. She then spent several years working in Asia and North America before returning to the Fashion Business School launching the innovative flagship BA Fashion Marketing course incorporating global luxury fashion branding and sustainable business and communications. Natascha is a Senior Fellow of the HEA; her work internationalising the curriculum was recognised with her appointment as the University's inaugural Senior Teaching Scholar and subsequently being awarded an HEA National Teaching Fellowship.
As well as her expertise in creative pedagogies, her cross-disciplinary research focuses on sustainability including fashion luxury and health, responsible business and management, international marketing and brand strategy and cross-cultural creativity.
Natascha is an award-winning case study author writing on ethical business (The Case Centre) and co-author of Fashion Management: A Strategic Approach (Palgrave Macmillan). Natascha is the Vice Chair of the Costume Society and Regional Editor for the Bloomsbury Fashion Business Case Study resource. Her publications have appeared in journals including the Journal of Fashion Marketing Management and Psychology Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts. Natascha is a contributor to industry and media pieces on fashion business and consumer behaviour including for the BBC and SHOWstudio.