post

Senior Lecturer in Applied Economics and Quantitative Methods

responsibilities

Course Leader in BA International Hospitality and Tourism Management, as part of LMBS International link with the Institute of Training, Research, and Operational Consultancy in Tourism (INSTROCT) in Tehran, Iran.

brief biography

Sue’s education started with BA in Economics at Kingston Polytechnic (1982), followed by MSc Economics at London School of Economics (1984) and MBA at University of North London (1997).

She began her teaching career at Kingston Polytechnic in 1984 as a Lecturer in Quantitative Methods. She then joined the Hospitality Management Department at the Polytechnic of North London in 1985 as a Lecturer in Applied Economics and Quantitative Methods. In 1988, she became a Senior Lecturer in Applied Economics and Quantitative Methods at the Business School at University of North London.

Sue was also a lecturer in Microeconomics and Macroeconomics at the International Summer School in Economics at LSE during 1990-96.

She has been involved in teaching microeconomics, macroeconomics, business economics and quantitative methods on a wide range of courses at HND, Undergraduate and Postgraduate levels over time. Sue has held many different administrative roles such as Course Leader for BA Hospitality Management and BA International Hotel and Catering Management (1990-98), Member of Business School Quality Committee (1992-96) and Teaching and Learning Committee (1993-95), Enterprise in Higher Education Coordinator (1994-95), Profiling Project Leader (1993-95) to name a few. She has recently been involved in the Metal Project (Enhancing Teaching and Learning Mathematics) 2007-08.

key teaching areas

Her current teaching at LMBS is centred around:

• Quantitative & Academic Skills at Certificate Level
• Mathematics for Business at Certificate Level
• Quantitative Economics at Intermediate Level
• Economics in Global Context at Master level

research interests

• Globalisation of Apparel Industry
• Part time and flexible working patterns
• IT based learning and teaching in Economics and Quantitative Methods

publications

• Presented a paper on "Leadership, Gender and Cultural Perspectives" at MBA conference at ICA, London
• "Clothing the Tigers" - A comparative Analysis of the Apparel Market in Japan and South Korea.