Sathees Kunjuthamby

Dr Sathees Kunjuthamby PhD, SFHEA, MSc, PgCAPHE, BA (Hons)

Senior Lecturer in Business Management

Dr Sathees Kunjuthamby is a Senior Lecturer in Business Management at University of Greenwich, Greenwich Business School. He works within the School of Business, Operations and Strategy (BOS). He holds a PhD in Strategy and Applied Management from Coventry University (UK) and has been a full-time lecturer since 2013, with over 12 years of experience in teaching, leadership, and transnational education (TNE).

He’s a four-time teaching award winner, a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) (since 2021) and successfully maintained CMBE (Certified Management Business Educator) accreditation on six occasions between 2019 and 2025.

Internationalisation is central to his academic practice. With +8 years of experience as a Link Tutor for Transnational Education, he is actively involved in supporting and guiding TNEs through ongoing Link Tutor responsibilities. He currently holds the role of International Partnerships Link Tutor, overseeing global partnerships for Greenwich Business School.

He led 18 COILs / VE projects with several international partners and taught internationally, including at Toulouse Education in France (holding triple accreditation AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS), Universidad de Burgos (Spain), and as a Flying Faculty Lecturer in Hong Kong (5+ years). Moreover, he designed and led 10 international and 2 virtual field trips across Asia, Europe, and North America and 2 summer schools in Italy and 3 winter schools at Greenwich.

Moreover, he held several leadership roles, including Associate Link Tutorship (Hong Kong and Singapore), Director of International Partnerships, Course Director and Associate Course Director for MSc Project Management (APM accredited), International Partner Course Director (Malaysia and France), and School COIL Lead.

His research focuses on strategic alliances, alliance risk, and internationalisation in higher education.

Business and management

Responsibilities within the university
  • International Partnerships Link Tutor (Transnational Education): Providing pedagogic leadership for cross-campus programme delivery, ensuring curriculum alignment, assessment parity, and high-quality learning experiences for international cohorts across 11 programs at 5 TNEs.
  • International & Student Mobility Lead: Developing and delivering academic mobility programmes (winter/summer schools) that enhance global learning, intercultural competence, and experiential education
  • Module Leader: Year 1, Level 4: International Business Functions
  • Module Teaching Team Member (seminar delivery, marking, and student support): Undergraduate, Year 3, Level 6: Managing Strategy; Strategy for Managers; Internationalisation, Technology and Governance; International Human Resource Management Postgraduate, Level 7: Managing Across Cultures

Awards

International Engagement Awards

  • School Excellence Award in International Engagement (Oct 2021), Coventry University
  • Highly Commended in International Engagement, Faculty of Business and Law (Sept 2019), Coventry University
  • Faculty Excellence Award in International Engagement, Faculty of Business and Law (Sept 2018), Coventry University

Performance & Innovation Awards

  • Exceptional Performance Award, Academic Dean, Faculty of Business and Law (Sept 2018), Coventry University
  • Most Innovative Colleague Award (Dec 2017), Coventry University

Recognition
  • Invited External Examiner DBA, Anglia Ruskin University, June 2026
  • Invited External Advisor / Panel Member: TNE Revalidation & Periodic Programme Review Visit in Malaysia for Liverpool John Moores University, December 2025
  • Invited to deliver a Best Practice Session for Queen Mary University London, School of Business & Management titled: ‘Connecting Cultures and Classrooms: The Power of COIL for International Collaboration and Virtual Conferences’, in April 2025
  • Senior Fellow of Higher Education (SFHEA), Higher Education Academy
  • CMBE, Certified Management and Business Educator, Chartered Association of Business Schools, successfully maintained accreditation on six occasions between 2019 and 2025.
  • Invited External Advisor / Panel Member - Institutional and Franchise Approval Visit in UAE (Dubai) and India (Kerala) for Anglia Ruskin University: BA (Hons) Management and MSc International Business, in June 2024.

Research / Scholarly interests

Sathees’s research interests span two key areas. The first examines premature alliance termination, with a focus on relational and performance risk, and governance choice. The second examines internationalisation in higher education, with a focus on project-based learning (PBL) and collaborative online international learning (COIL) as pedagogical approaches.

Recent publications
  • Kunjuthamby, S. (2026). Behind the Scenes of TNE: The Evolving Role of the Partnership Leads in Collaborative Partnerships in the European Association for International Education (EAIE).
  • Kunjuthamby, S. and Endale, L. (2026). From Classrooms to Character: The Power of Experiential Learning in the British Educational Research Association (BERA).
  • Kunjuthamby, S. (2025). Building a COIL-Ready Campus: A Roadmap for Institutional Adoption in Advance HE
  • Kunjuthamby, S. and Lausberg, I. (2024). Empowering Education: Lessons Learned from an innovative COIL & PBL project in Advance HE.
  • Kunjuthamby, S. (2024). Future-Ready Business Schools: Harnessing simulation games for assessment and a global working environment in the British Educational Research Association.
  • Kunjuthamby, S. (2023). ‘Social competence is a vital life skill: University institutions should support students to take up those challenges’ in the British Educational Research Association.
  • Lausberg, I., Kunjuthamby, S., and Kaehler, K. (2021) ‘Strategic Management in Turbulent Times’ – A Virtual Student Conference as a Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) Project. (Proceedings) In: MEB 2021 – 19th International Conference on Management, Enterprise and Benchmarking, 18 – 19 June 2021, Budapest, pp. 33 – 38. (ISBN 978-963-449-265-8)
  • Lausberg, I., Kunjuthamby, S., and Kaehler, K. (2021) ‘Internationalization in a COVID – world: Fostering 21st Century Skills in a Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) Project’, in 'Things will never be the same again’ – Lehre und Hoschulenentwicklung in Zeiten der Corona-Pandemie, von Holger Angenent, Jörg Petri, Tatiana Zimenkova (Hrsg.), Bielefeld, transcript Verlag, Open Access und Print, pp. 354 – 370. (ISBN: 978-3-8376-5984-9).
  • Lausberg, I., Kunjuthamby, S. & Kaehler, K. (2021). ‘Mit COIL Studierende fit für die Zukunft machen’ in: Die Neue Hochschule DNH, Heft 2, Jahrgang 2021, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, S. 8 -11.
  • Kunjuthamby, S., Bennett, M. &  Zhou, X. (2021). COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning) in UK Higher Education – Reloaded’ in the British Educational Research Association.
  • Kunjuthamby, S. (2020) ‘Creating opportunities through Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL)’, Case study, in Wolstencroft, P., De Main, L. and Cashian, P. (2020) Achieving Teaching Excellence: Developing Your TEF Profile and Beyond, Maidenhead: Open University Press.
  • Kunjuthamby, S. (2019) ‘Internationalisation of Education – How international field trips cultivate international immersion' in Teaching and Learning Excellence The Coventry Way ed. by Simmons, C [online] Coventry: Coventry University, 93-96.

Presentations
  • Endale, L.,and Kunjuthamby, S. (2025) Partnership Agreements in Virtual Exchange: The What, Why and How’. In: IVEC 2025,  15 October - 17 October, 2025 ,Heraklion, Crete,  Greece.
  • Kunjuthamby, S. (2024) ‘Navigating Complexity: Integrating Simulation – Based Learning in the Classroom’. In: ICI 2024, Inclusive Comprehensive Internationalisation. 11- 12 December 2024, Tarragona, Spain.
  • Kunjuthamby, S. (2024) ‘Level Up: Simulation Games to enhance authenticity and achieve intercultural awareness’. In: Learning and Teaching Festival 2024: The Big Picture – Meta Learning. Held on the 20th June 2024, Greenwich, UK
  • Kunjuthamby, S. and  Lausberg., I. (2023) ‘ Engagement through partnership: An interactive & international digital learning experience -  A case study of a COIL between UK, Germany and South Korea’. In: IVEC 2023,  30 October- 1 November, 2023, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Kunjuthamby, S., Lausberg, I., and Kwak, DW. (2022) ‘The transformation of conventional teaching into an interactive & international digital learning experience – A case study of a COIL between Germany, UK and South Korea’ In:ISSoTL 2022, 2-5 November, 2022, Kelowna, Canada.
  • Kunjuthamby, S. (2019) Developmental paper titled “How does risk (relational and performance) influence alliance termination: a research framework” for the IOC track of British Academy of Management 2019 Conference, held at Aston Business School, Birmingham UK) between 3 – 5 September 2019
  • Kunjuthamby, S. (2018) Coventry University International Staff Conference, Keynote speech: Internationalisation and you – held on the 16th February at Techno Centre, Coventry, UK
  • Kunjuthamby, S. (2017) OIL Project 2.0: Building relationships and a global passport using innovative enhanced technology platforms: Presented at the Coventry University Staff Conference: Achievement, Equality and Diversity held on the 23rd and 24th June in Coventry, UK
  • Kunjuthamby, S. (2016) “Technology as an enabler. There are no barriers for learning: Best Practice from an OIL Project between Coventry University and Universidad de Burgos” Coventry University Conference 2016: Creating better futures. Held on the 24th June 2016 in Coventry, UK