Catherine Farrant

Ms Catherine Farrant MSc, PGDip, BA (Hons), PGCertHE, SFHEA

Senior Teaching Fellow, Leadership and Organisational Behaviour

Key details

Ms Catherine C.A.F Farrant

Senior Teaching Fellow, Leadership and Organisational Behaviour

Following a career in Resourcing, HR, and Business Consultancy in the Retail and Financial Services Sectors, Catherine joined the University of Greenwich in 2011.  She is a Senior Teaching Fellow with expertise in Leadership, Change and Organisation Behaviour and has taught and led modules at master's and undergraduate levels and was, until recently, Programme Leader for BA Human Resource Management.  She is now working in the Executive Business Centre, delivering and leading taught modules to Executive and Global MBA students.

Catherine is a qualified coach and a member of the University Coaching Network.  She has worked on several organisational development projects within the talent management and organisational development sphere for the university and SMEs partners.  Examples of projects include delivering a professional services competence framework; working with a leadership research colleague to design and develop a leadership competence framework, and delivering a series of leadership development interventions at the middle leadership level.

Business and management

Awards
  • Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Authority (2019)
  • UKAT Recognised Practitioner in Personal Advising (June 2023)
  • Registered Organisational Psychologist with Health and Care Professions Council ( January 2025)

Recognition
  • Assoc CIPD
  • MemBPS

Research / Scholarly interests
  • Leadership and change, Organisational Behaviour, HRD, Coaching, providing organisational development consultancy to SMEs and public sector organisations.
  • Catherine is pursuing a Professional Doctorate in Organisational Behaviour with Birkbeck University.

Recent publications
  • Samatoina D & Farrant C (2025). From Learners to Co-Creators: redefining Teaching and Assessment Strategy in Entrepreneurship Education.   Teaching and Learning together in Higher Education: Vol 1 Iss 46.
  • Farrant C, Tybura J, Rafe M, Ackon N, Schmidt C-M & Chantaboury A (2021). A brain to pick, an ear to listen and a push in the right direction.  Compass Journal of Learning and Teaching
  • Farrant C, Marinciu R, Reilly D & Warren L (2021) Supporting students with resits to build self-efficacy.  Compass Journal of Learning and Teaching.
  • Saunders, M, Gray, D & Farrant, C 2016, SME Success: Winning New Business [Summary Report]. Kingston Smith, London. http://www.kingstonsmith.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/SME-Winning-New-Business.pdf
  • Gray D E, Curnow B, Saunders M K & Farrant C.A.  (2014) Professional Identity and coaching: validating a global survey.

Presentations
  • Gray D.E, Curnow B, Saunders M.K  & Farrant C.A. (2105). Coaching: an emerging profession - or just a spanner in the HRD toolbox . EMCC: Venice DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.2199.8242
  • Farrant C.A. & Williams L. (2025) Leading with CARE effectively: A case study of shared language and identity for leadership and culture.    Public Sector HR Strategy Forum. Cirencester.