Mr Martin Dowling
BSc (Hons), PgDip Ed Tech, MA, Chartered FCIPD, FHEA
Senior Teaching Fellow
Examinations Officer
Director of Operations
Contact details
Tel: +44 (0)1334 461970
Fax: +44 (0)1334 462812
Teaching 2012/2013
- MN5002 Contemporary Conceptual Issues in Management
- MN5470 Managing Human Resources
- MN5480 Managing and Developing People
- MN5481 Master Class in Human Resource Management
- MN5511 Leadership in Organisations
Biography
Martin Dowling joined the School of Management in January 2006 as Director of Postgraduate Programme with the additional appointment as Senior Teaching Fellow in June 2009, a post he retained when, in April 2011, he was appointed to the position of Director of Operations for the School. Martin was formerly Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management at Dundee Business School, University of Abertay Dundee. He was also Programme Tutor for the Dundee Business School's postgraduate programmes and prior to this he was Division Leader for the academic subjects of HRM, Strategy and Entrepreneurship.
His career in higher education has involved him in academic management and leadership, postgraduate course development and management, quality assurance systems, teaching, research and consultancy. He is a member of the British Academy of Management (BAM), the British Universities Industrial Relations Association (BUIRA) and a Fellow of both the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). He is an external examiner for the Institute, a member of the Chairs' Group of the Quality Management Panel and currently Vice Chair of the Mid Scotland Branch of the CIPD. He has been a Visiting Professor at a number of overseas institutions and has wide experience as an external examiner within the UK higher education system.
His teaching interests include human resource management, industrial relations and management development. He has worked closely with colleagues in several universities on a number of HR-related research projects and published in both academic and professional journals. His current research interests are in the areas of organisational change and HR strategy, partnership working in organisations, and the concepts of skill and competence within management development initiatives. He has undertaken research projects for a number of local and national organisations. Recent projects have concerned: staff attitudes and perceptions in the health sector; future skill development and partnership working among European employers and trade unions; and, attitudes to leadership among public sector managers.
Research Specialisms
Organisational change and HR strategy, partnership working in organisations and skill development.
Selected Recent Publications
Fearfull, A. and Dowling, M. (2011) "Skills in the 21st Century Organisation: The Career of a Notion" in Townsend, K. and Wilkinson, A., (2011) The Edward Elgar Research Handbook on Work and Employment Relations, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham (in press).
Hotho, S. and Dowling, M. (2010) "Revisiting leadership development: the participant perspective", Leadership and Organisation Development Journal Vol 31, No 7.
Dowling, M., Beech, N., Donnelly, M. and Littler, C. (eds) (2007) Spanning Two Towers: The Interplay of Knowledge and Practice in HRM. University of St Andrews.
Dowling, M. and Hesketh, A. (2007) 'Developing Managerial Competencies Among Health Care Professionals' in Dowling, M. (et al) (eds) Spanning Two Towers: The Interplay of Knowledge and Practice in HRM. University of St Andrews Press.
Dowling, M. and Henderson, I. (2007) 'Managerial Competencies for the HR Professional: A Framework for Analysis' in Dowling, M. (et al) (eds) Spanning Two Towers: The Interplay of Knowledge and Practice in HRM. University of St Andrews.