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Dr Anusha Pappu
Academic Portfolio Lead- Strategy and Senior Lecturer in Business and Management
Anusha Pappu completed her PhD from the University of Greenwich in 2019 and was supported by a Vice-Chancellor's Scholarship for the PhD. She was previously awarded her BSc in Life Science from Miranda House, University of Delhi and MSc in Life Science from Mount Carmel College, University of Bangalore, India. She completed her MBA in International Business from the University of Greenwich, UK.
Anusha started teaching at the University from September 2015 and taken up role as a full-time lecturer from 2019. She has been promoted to senior lecturer in September 2022 and took up the role of Academic Portfolio Lead in Strategy from February 2023 in the school of Business, Operations and Strategy (BOS). She has experience of teaching a range of modules in the Greenwich Business School at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Some of the modules taught include Introduction to Business Processes, Introduction to Logistics and Transport, Operations Management, Project Planning and Management, Small Business Development, Managing Strategy, Strategic Management, Sustainable Transport, Foundations of Scholarship and Research Methods, e-Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Passenger and Freight Transport. She has also been a module leader for some of these modules and completely redesigned some modules considering the student feedback and achieved consistent EvaSys scores of 4.3-4.7/5 on the modules she led.
She was a programme director for Executive MBA and successfully managed the programme across schools. She was also a school lead for International Partnerships. She was involved in the development of a new programme timeline to support prospective international students in response to the COVID-19 impact and led a common year 1 January intake for undergraduate programmes at Faculty level. As international Partner lead between 2021-2023, she worked closely with five Transnational Education (TNE) Partners, Hong Kong Management Association (Hong Kong), London School of Business and Finance (Singapore), Zambia Centre for Accountancy Studies (Zambia), New York College, Athens (Greece) and Saxion University of Applied Sciences (Netherlands). She managed the planning and delivery of multiple entry pathways on numerous programmes at the partner sites and worked closely with their staff and students. She has been leading BA Business Studies programme suits for more than three years and achieved consistent scores over 90 in the National Students Survey (NSS) and has been participating in events to share the best practices on the programme.
Anusha is interested in research in improving students experience and focuses on international students and BAME. With her research focus being sustainability and circular economy, she works on embedding them into her teaching. She is a part of the cross-university steering group for BAME female students’ employability challenges; part of the working group in the development of University’s Curriculum Framework focusing on Research and Pedagogy. She secured funding for projects ranging from £300-£1800 to maximise student success and is continuing to work on them.