Dr Ian Harwood is an experienced educator and project manager having worked in Southampton Business School at the University of Southampton for two decades. He was involved in Education Development, supporting students with their research methods and dissertation skills, as well as mentoring and coaching staff in a range of education-related areas. Most recently, he has joined the Centre for Degree Apprenticeships at the University of Winchester as a Skills Coach and has also returned to the University of Southampton as a dissertation supervisor on MSc programmes. He is passionate about enhancing the student experience for which he has twice received a Vice-Chancellor’s Teaching Award. He has taught across the range of UG, PGT and PGR in research methods, corporate social responsibility and project management. He has particular interests in qualitative methods (especially Grounded Theory) and systems thinking. He holds a PhD (Soton) in project risk management, MSc in Sustainability (Soton) with distinction and two Dean’s List awards, MBA (Brighton) with prize for best dissertation, BSc (Open) with a focus on Environmental Science, and the Association for Project Management’s APMP (UCL, London). Ian also holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (Soton) and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Ian has held numerous leadership roles, including: Deputy Head of School (sabbatical cover), Director of Undergraduate Education, Senior Tutor (student well-being and support), Programme Director, External examiner and Member of Senate. Prior to academia, Ian enjoyed a successful career as a programme/project manager in the pharmaceutical and process control industries. Over more than a decade, he led a range of change initiatives from facilitating small continuous improvement teams to eventually reporting to Director level in a FTSE100 head office implementing world-wide supply chain restructuring programmes.