Hazel is the course leader for the Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) and the MBA (Global), a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a University Teaching Fellow and an Academic Liaison Tutor for university partnerships in the UK and overseas.
Hazel Messenger
Hazel has a doctorate relating to developmental learning environments from the University of Hertfordshire and is course leader of the DBA. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a University Teaching Fellow and a mentor for colleagues developing their own Fellowship applications.
As an Academic Liaison Tutor, she plays a significant part in facilitating provision in the University's partner organisations overseas, and takes the lead for Sri Lanka
Her research areas are practice-related, and focus on collaborative academic practice and professional doctorates.
Hazel teaches on undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the Strategic Management subject area, and is the course leader of the DBA
Hazel's personal research areas are practice-related, and focus on collaborative academic practice and professional doctorates. She is interested in research proposals relating to operationalising collaborations, 'third space' professionals and spaces, developmental contexts and practice-related problem-solving. Her preference is for qualitative research methodologies including those that have a creative focus.
- Messenger, H. and Bloisi, W. (2020, publication August 2020) Experience, skill and competence: boundary spanning capabilities for leadership and management of transnational education. Innovations in Teaching and Learning International
- Fakhr, Z. and Messenger, H. (2020, publication September 2020). Being a female academic in a patriarchal society. Innovations in Higher Education International
- Messenger, H. (2016). ‘Something old, something new: learning and developing through the zigs and zags of an improvised career’. In Jackson, N. (ed). Exploring Ecologies for Professional Learning [online].
- Messenger, H. Warren, D. & Bloisi, W. (2016). ‘Home and Away: a case study analysis of a learning and teaching programme supporting the development of a ‘transformative’ partnership with a private HEI in Sri Lanka’. In Blessinger, P.& Cozza, (eds). University Partnerships in Higher Education. pp141-157 Emerald Group Publishing book series Innovations in Higher Education Teaching and Learning.
- Messenger, H. (2016). ‘Drawing out ideas: visual journaling as a knowledge creating medium during doctoral research’. Creative Approaches to Research. 9(1) 129-149.
- Messenger, H. (2015). ‘The identification of a value–based pedagogical pattern promoting student development in higher education’. Teaching in Higher Education, 20(7), 738-749.
- Coleman-Schoels, B. and Messenger, H. (2015). ’If at first you don’t succeed…: a critical review of a newly developed dissertation module’. Investigations, Volume 10, Spring 2015. London Metropolitan University.
- Messenger, H. (2013). The Creation of Transformative Learning Cultures in Higher Education.
- Messenger, H. Relph, A. Glass, L. and Aris, J. (2011) Collaborative Action Learning to Support the Development of 21st Century Students. Final Report. Teaching, Research and Development Projects 2010/11, Higher Education Academy.
- Co-convenor of the TNE Hub
- Member of the VITAE working group (RDF development)
Hazel Messenger
Senior Lecturer
h.messenger@londonmet.ac.uk