Steven Cranfield
Senior Lecturer
Business Information Management And Operations
University of Westminster
United Kingdom
Biography
Originally with a background in academic research in English and Medieval Studies, He was trained in general and mental health nursing, specialising in solid tumour oncology and in substance misuse. As a health professional during the 1980s and 90s he contributed to several national and cross-national research and education initiatives in HIV and sexual health. As an independent academic consultant he gained more than twenty years’ experience working with UK universities, professional bodies and commissioners on aspects of professional education and leadership development in the public, private and third sectors.
Research Interest
His research interests include pedagogic research in higher education, research methodologies, philosophical and socio-cultural aspects of education, leadership development, and organisational learning. I have a particular interest in the thought of the critic and educationalist F. R. Leavis in relation to the massification of higher education (the focus of my doctoral thesis).
