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Dr Russell Warhurst

Associate Professor

Department: Newcastle Business School

Russell subsequently moved into a public-private partnership role co-ordinating training and development before moving into a learning and development role with a major UK airline.  

Russell began his career as an academic at the then Newcastle Polytechnic in 1989 soon after the formation of Newcastle Business School.  During this time Russell led a HND in business enterprise and subsequently an MA in HRM validated by the CIPD. 

Moving on from NBS, Russell joined Leeds Business School and led CIPD programmes in Leeds and general business programmes in Hong Kong before being seconded to BMW-Rover Group where he led manager and leadership development programmes working across various manufacturing sites in the UK and Germany. 

Russell then moved to a Scottish university to lead manager and professional development within the university’s HRM department.  More recently Russell was at the University of Chester where he was Programme Director for MBA degrees and was partly seconded to a public-private partnership body, LDL, with an organisational development remit.  

Russell holds adjunct professorships at Moscow’s prestigious Institute of International Trade and Law and at AACSB accredited, and FT “top 20” European business school, Aalto University Business School in Finland.  Russell was awarded his Doctorate in 2006 for a study into professional learning in the workplace. 

Russell’s research interests currently include workplace learning and development, manager and leadership learning, organisational learning, knowledge and wisdom, later-career learning, manager identities and well-being at work.  

Russell has won numerous research awards, reviews for a number of journals and is currently co-editing  a book with NBS colleagues on identities and HRD.

  • Emma Mullen Human Resources Graduate Employability: An Exploration of Line Manager Experiences and Perceptions Start Date: 11/03/2016 End Date: 03/01/2017
  • Felix Kuschel Start Date: 01/10/2023
  • Helavalada Fakuade Understanding Women’s Learning and Development Experiences in the Workplace: The Case of The Nigerian Air Force Start Date: 01/10/2020
  • Joseph Mellors Internalised gay ageism on LGBT+ homestay platforms: Authenticity, its multivalence and beyond Start Date: 24/11/2023 End Date: 25/10/2024
  • Emma Mullen Human Resources Graduate Employability: An Exploration of Line Manager Experiences and Perceptions Start Date: 11/03/2016 End Date: 03/01/2017

  • Education PhD January 01 2006
  • Research Methods PGCert July 05 2004
  • Chartered Member (MCIPD) Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (CIPD) 2014


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