Gill C
 professor
                            department of business                                                        
Ashridge Business School
                                                        United Kingdom
                        
Biography
Gill is Director of the Ashridge Centre for Action Research, Co-Director of the MSc in Sustainability and Responsibility, and a member of faculty for the Ashridge Doctorate in Organisational Change. Her interests are in participative approaches to personal and organisational learning and change, particularly as they relate to sustainability and corporate social responsibility. She has substantial experience in teaching and supervising action research theory and practice, and conducts action research projects in Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Before joining Ashridge, Gill worked for ten years with the Centre for Action Research and Professional Practice at the University of Bath, conducting postgraduate teaching, research supervision and action research. Prior to that she was the Director of the New Academy of Business, a radical business education venture sponsored by Anita Roddick of The Body Shop. Gill has a PhD from the University of Bath School of Management, and an MSc from the University of Bristol’s School for Advanced Urban Studies.
Research Interest
Business and Economics
Publications
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Coleman, G., & King, K. (November, 2015) Action Research as Organisational Intervention: Possibilities and Challenges. Paper presented at the Global Centre for Work Applied Learning, Adelaide.
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Coleman, G., Wiggins, L. and Lavelle, K. (2016) Giving Voice to Humanity: early findings from using Action Research and Appreciative Inquiry in Qatar's ambulance service’ Peer reviewed conference paper at 10th International Behaviour in Healthcare Conference: Attaining, sustaining and spreading improvement: Art or Science? April 2016, Cardiff.