Martin Bicknell
Director
Teaching and Learning
Henley Business School University of Reading
United Kingdom
Biography
Martin Bicknell is School Director for Teaching and Learning and provides strategic oversight of teaching and learning across the business school. He teaches on a number of people-related modules. Martin's academic background is in Organisational Behaviour / Psychology and his research has concerned workplace stress. He has recently been considering this from a psychoanalytic perspective that draws on the work of Jacques Lacan. Martin has a strong interest in the theory and practice of higher education and has a particular interest in technology enhanced learning. He is pioneering the roll-out of massive open online courses (MOOCs) in the business school (see FutureLearn) . Martin came to academic life relatively recently having previously been a management consultant with KPMG and his own company where he specialised in public policy and strategy work in the telecommunications and media sectors.
Research Interest
Telecommunications and media sectors.
Publications
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Bicknell, M., & A. Liefooghe (2010) "Enjoy your stress! Using Lacan to enrich transactional models of stress". Organization, 17(3): 317-330.
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Bicknell, M. & A. Liefooghe (2006) "The Art of Stress". Journal of Organizational and Occupational Psychology, 79(3), 377-394.