Dr Andrew Woon

Profile

Roles:

• Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management
• Programme Director for BSc Business Management (Year 3)
• Queen Mary Learner Interns Programme (LIP) Lead on AI Project
• Member of the Department of Business and Society

Biography:

Andrew is a Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management and the Programme Director for BSc Business Management (Year 3) in the School of Business and Management. Prior to joining QMUL, Andrew was a Senior Lecturer in Strategy and the Course Director for the Business Foundation Year at London South Bank University.

Andrew holds a Doctorate degree in Business Administration, an MBA, a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education, and a BA (Hons) in Hospitality Industry Management.

Andrew is passionate and active in quality assurance roles including external examining and validation events. Andrew is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Certified Management and Business Educator.

Teaching

Undergraduate:

• Strategic Analysis and Practice

Postgraduate:

• The Contemporary Live Project (Capstone Project)
• Skills and Methods for Sustainable Management

Andrew has a strong record of teaching excellence, having won a student led award for Teaching Excellence at the University of Reading Malaysia. He has also been nominated and shortlisted for the Outstanding Teaching and Accessible Education awards at both the school-level and university-wide levels at the University of Greenwich.

Andrew is interested in compassionate and collaborative pedagogy and is a member of the Compassionate Assessment Network.

Research

Public Engagement

Andrew is an external examiner at London Metropolitan University, University of the West of England, Teesside University and Wrexham University. 

Andrew is also a long-standing columnist for the leading Chinese-language newspaper in Malaysia and he is a member of the Global Compassion Coalition.

Scholarly Contributions

• Woon, A. (2024) ‘Call me by my name, not ‘Hi there!’’, Chartered Association of Business Schools. Available at Call me by my name, not 'Hi there!' | Chartered Association of Business Schools
• Woon, A. (2024) ‘Fostering Compassion in the Classroom Amidst Global Conflicts’, Higher Education Policy Institute Blog. Available at https://www.hepi.ac.uk/2024/09/28/fostering-compassion-in-the-classroom-amidst-global-conflicts/
• Woon, A. (2024) ‘What Can Universities Do to Boost Student Attendance and Achievement’, BERA Blog. Available at https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/what-can-universities-do-to-boost-student-attendance-and-achievement
• Woon, A. (2024) ‘How to Break the Promotion Glass Ceiling for Teaching and Scholarship Academics’, Higher Education Policy Institute Blog. Available at https://www.hepi.ac.uk/2024/07/22/how-to-break-the-promotion-glass-ceiling-for-teaching-and-scholarship-academics/
• Woon, A. (2024) ‘How to prevent compassion fatigue among faculty member in today’s higher education’ Pre-recorded PechaKucha presentation at Learning and Teaching, Student Experience 2024, held 14-15th of May, Birmingham, UK
• Woon, A. (2024) ‘Compassion fatigue is limiting academics’ ability to care for students’, Times Higher Education Blog. Available at https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/compassion-fatigue-limiting-academics-ability-care-students   
• Keynote speaker at the Global conference on Business, Management and Marketing held 21 – 23 February 2024 at Birmingham, United Kingdom. Title of the keynote “Road to Sustainability: The Mindset Shift”
• Woon, A. (2023) “The Causes and Consequences of Compassion Fatigue from the Perspective of Faculty Members in Private Higher Education Institutions in Malaysia” Paper presented at the 6th International Academic Conference on Teaching, Learning and Education, held 23 – 25 June 2023 in Amsterdam.
• Woon, A. (2021) “My Personal Reflection on Conducting Virtual Classes”, Teaching and Learning, November 15, 2021 [Blog]. Available at https://blogs.gre.ac.uk/learning-teaching/2021/11/15/my-personal-reflection-on-conducting-virtual-classes/