Jo Watts
Senior Lecturer
Summary
My role at Sheffield Hallam University combines teaching and research that is underpinned by 30 years of applied experience. This spans the private, public and thirds sectors. I am the second year Business Studies Course lead.
Prior to entering academia, I worked at senior levels that had a strong emphasis on strategic, organisational and individual development. My work has contributed to funding bids that supported participative, asset-based approaches to community development and addressed issues such as food poverty and social isolation.
In addition to teaching, I am currently in the final stages of doctoral research that explores discourses of collaboration in policy and the subsequent implications for non -profit organisations.
Teaching
Sheffield Business School
2015 Leadership, Psychology, Coaching and Mentoring Skills, Supervision , Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom
2015 Strategic Management, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom
2015 Enterprise, Change and Creativity, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom
2014 Understanding and Managing Organising Organisations, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom
2014 PCDP, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom
2012 Organisational Development
2000 Public Sector L&D
1999 Charity Resource Managment, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom
1988 Retail Management, The Body Shop, United Kingdom
Research
Education
2015- present PhD - discourses of collaboration in policy and the subsequent implications for non -profit organisations
2017 Masters in Research (passed with distinction)
2017 Postgraduate certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (passed with merit)
2013 Masters in Coaching and Mentoring (passed with merit)
Member of CIPD
Publications
Conference papers
Calver, J., Littlewood, G., Duffy, M., & Watts, J. (2022). Wearing your ethics: The sustainability gap between purchasing intentions versus actions. The case of generation z students. In Darabi, F. (Ed.) BAM 2022 Conference, Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, 2022 - 2 September 2022. The British Academy of Management: https://www.bam.ac.uk/events-landing/conference.html
Duffy, M., & Watts, J. (2021). The world is literally on fire, so why are we so slow to react? Implementing Responsible Business in curricula. Giving students a voice in Sheffield Business School. In Recovering from Covid: Responsible Management and Reshaping the Economy, Conference in the Cloud, 2021 - 3 September 2021. The British Academy of Management: https://virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/#/event/1821/submission/49
Watts, J., & Duffy, M. (2020). Operationalising Theory; a Framework to Explore How Policy Guides Organisational Action. In BAM 2020 Conference in the Cloud, Virtual conference, 2 September 2020 - 4 September 2020. Oxford Abstracts: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/events/1520/secure/program-app/submission/206493
Duffy, M., & Watts, J. (2020). Earning the commitment of millennials, the secret weapon of Corporate Social Responsibility. In British Academy of Management 2020 In the Cloud Conference, Manchester, UK (Virtual), 2 September 2020 - 4 September 2020. British Academy of Management: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/events/1520/secure/program-app/submission/206494
Theses / Dissertations
Watts, J. (2022). Constructing non-profit collaboration:a macro discursive institutional perspective. (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Bennett, E., Bennett, A., & Patmore, B. http://doi.org/10.7190/shu-thesis-00476
Presentations
Duffy, M., & Watts, J. (2022). Sustainability applied; the perspective of giving students a voice in Sheffield Business School. Presented at: Advance HE Island of Ireland Symposium 2022, Dublin, Ireland, 2022
Duffy, M., & Watts, J. (2021). Incremental Formative Feedback for Success in Responsible and Ethical Business Practice. Presented at: Sheffield Business School Green Day Conference, 2021
Duffy, M., Watts, J.L., Ainsworth, B., Amin, R., Cronk, H., & Jones, L. (2021). Co-creating sustainability and responsibility: Exploring students perceptions of the classroom / workplace relationship. Presented at: Sustainability symposium: Facing forward with Sustainability - Principles, Progress and Partnership, Virtual, 2021
Watts, J. (2016). The future of the Voluntary Action in Unsettled times. Collaboration among non-profit organisations in policy discourse.