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School of Business and Management

Dr Georgy (Gueorgui) Petrov

Georgy (Gueorgui)

Senior Lecturer in Management; Director of Skills and Employability

Email: g.petrov@qmul.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8784
Room Number: Office 3.09, Francis Bancroft Building, Mile End Campus
Office Hours: Thursday, 2.00pm - 4.00pm

Profile

Roles:

Biography:

Dr Georgy Petrov is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Management.

Georgy oversees development and delivery of Employability Strategy for the School and leads on the School’s employer engagement and development of students’ employability and wider skills within the mainstream curriculum.

Prior to joining Queen Mary Georgy held academic positions at a number of universities, including: the Coventry University London campus, where he acted as Associate Head for Student Experience and Quality; the Kingston University Business School, where he co-founded and led a very successful post-experience Kingston MSc in International HRM programme, delivered jointly with the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration; and the University of Exeter Centre for Leadership Studies.

Georgy is a Senior Fellow of HEA and holds a PhD in Higher Education and Organisation Studies from the UCL Institute of Education, University of London.

Awards:

QMUL Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Award for Openness and Inclusion, 2023/24.

QMUL Education Excellence Award for Innovations in Module Design and Assessment, 2022/23

Teaching

Georgy teaches on HRM, Organisational Behaviour, and Leadership related modules.  

Undergraduate:

  • BUS157: Current Challenges in Business and Management II

Postgraduate:

  • BUSM198 - Resourcing and Talent Management 
  • BUSM139 - Leadership Skills for Business Analytics (21/22 – 23/24)
  • BUSM108: Leading Organisational Change (20/21)

 

Research

Scholarly Contributions

Georgy’s scholarly interests and curriculum contributions include:
  • Development of student skills and employability
  • Leadership and professional development
  • Higher Education and employer engagement in skills development
  • Project-based learning and authentic assessment

Pedagogic Publications

  • Petrov, G. (forthcoming) Teaching Methods in Business: Project-Based Learning, Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar. ISBN 978 178990 521 2 (with Coombs, G. and Goodnight, J.)
  • Petrov, G. (2024) ‘Reimagining the Year 1 Business Management Curriculum: A project-based learning approach', Advance HE, 25 November, Available at: https://advance-he.ac.uk/news-and-views/reimagining-year-one-business-management-curriculum-project-based-learning-approach
  • Petrov, G. (2024) ‘Supporting Students in the Transition from BTEC to University’, Chartered ABS, 16 July, Available at: https://charteredabs.org/insights/knowledge-sharing/bridging-the-gap-supporting-students-in-the-transition-from-btec-to-university
  • Petrov, G. (2022) ‘Authentic Assessment for a Large First Year Module’, Queen Mary Academy ‘Assessment and Feedback’ Toolkit and Resources, London: QMUL. Available at: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/queenmaryacademy/educators/resources/assessment-and-feedback/resources/assessment-case-studies/case-studies/authentic-assessment-design-for-large-first-year-module/
  • Petrov, G, Southall, J. and Bolden, R. (2016) ‘Making the ‘Third Stream’ Mainstream: Facilitating effective Higher Education – Employer engagement in workforce development’, Higher Education Review, 48(3), 75-99.
  • Bolden, R. and Petrov, G. (2014), ‘Hybrid Configurations of Leadership in Higher Education-Employer Engagement’, Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 36(4), 408-417.
  • Anderson, D. and Petrov, G. (2012) ‘Integrating Skills into the Curriculum: a case study in business’, In Morgan, M. (ed.) Improving the Student Experience: a practical guide for universities and colleges. Abingdon: Routledge.
  • Bolden, R., Petrov, G. and Gosling, J. (2009) ‘Distributed Leadership in Higher Education: Rhetoric and reality’, Educational Management, Administration and Leadership, 37(2), 258-277.
  • Bolden, R., Petrov, G., Gosling, J. and Bryman, A. (2009) ‘Leadership in Higher Education: Facts, fictions and futures’, Leadership, 5(3), 291-298.
  • Gosling, J., Bolden, R. and Petrov, G. (2009) ‘Distributed Leadership in Higher Education: What does it accomplish?’, Leadership, 5(3), 299-310.
  • Bolden, R., Petrov, G. and Gosling, J. (2008) ‘Tensions in Higher Education Leadership: Towards a multi-level model of leadership practice’, Higher Education Quarterly, 62(4), 358-376.

Conference presentations

  • ‘Measuring and Enhancing Impact of Authentic Assessment for UG Students’, British Academy of Management Teaching Practice Conference, London, 6 June 2024.  
  • Keynote, ‘The Impact of Mentoring on Students’, J.P.Morgan Employability Symposium, London, 3 June 2024. 
  •  ‘Building Bridges and Creating Connections: Students mentoring students with BTEC to transition to University’, Chartered Association of Business Schools ‘Learning, Teaching and Student Experience’ Conference, Birmingham, 14-15 May 2024. 
  •  ‘Developing 1st year students’ employability skills through ‘learning by doing’, School of Economics and Finance 2nd International Conference in Education and Scholarship, QMUL, 10 November 2023. 
  •  ‘Developing students’ professional skills through authentic learning and assessment’, Academy of Management ‘Teaching and Learning’ conference, Boston MA., 6 August 2023.  
  •  ‘Closing demographic and entry qualifications gaps through authentic learning’, Chartered ABS ‘Learning, Teaching and Student Experience’ annual conference, Newport, 22-23 May 2023.   
  •  ‘Using the SkillsBuilder framework for university students’, The Skills Builder networking event, London, 16 November 2022.  
  •  ‘Leadership for Closing the Ethnicity Awarding Gap in Higher Education’, 15th ‘Equality, Diversity and Inclusion’ conference, Online, 22-24 July 2022.  
  •  ‘Leadership for closing the ethnicity awarding gap in Higher Education’, ‘Equity in Education and Society’ annual conference, Institute for Educational and Social Equity, London, 15 July 2022. 
  •  ‘Developing students’ professional skills through engaging employers in experiential learning and authentic assessment’, Chartered ABS ‘Learning, Teaching & Student Experience’ annual conference, Belfast, 24-25 May, 2022.   
  •  ‘Engaging a Real Business in Authentic Learning and Assessment’, British Academy of Management ‘Management Knowledge and Education’ conference, online, 23 June 2021. 
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