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Staff Profile (MyImpact)

Dr Lucy Hatt

Senior Lecturer in Leadership Development and Entrepreneurship

  • Telephone: 0191 208 1573
  • Personal Website: https://www.lucyhatt.co.uk/
  • Address: Newcastle University Business School
    5 Barrack Road
    Newcastle upon Tyne
    NE1 4SE
    UK
Background

Profile

I am the MBA Programme Director, the joint Degree Programme Director for the Executive MBA and the PG (Dip) Management Studies. I am a Senior Lecturer and a member of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Subject Group, teaching innovation, change and enterprise modules at post graduate level and for Senior Leader (L7) Apprentices. I research the value of the threshold concept approach in education, specifically in entrepreneurship curriculum development and evaluation. I am also interested in how senior leaders can develop entrepreneurial ways of thinking and the development of innovative organisational culture. I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and I sit on the Advocacy and Impact through Policy and Research Committee (AIPRC) of the EEUK (Enterprise Educators UK). I have a combined undergraduate Masters in Mechanical Engineering, manufacturing and Management from Birmingham University (1992) and PhD from Durham University School of Education (2020). Prior to moving into academia I worked in industry for 17 years.


Roles and Responsibilities

  • Degree Programme Director MBA
  • joint Degree Programme Director Executive MBA and PG (Dip) Management Studies
  • Module Leader NBS8970 Innovation and Change (MSc Strategic Leadership)
  • Module Leader NBS8983 Innovation and Enterprise (EMBA)
  • Teach on and supervise projects for Business Challenge Research Projects (NBS8991) EMBA
  • Newcastle Educational Practice Scheme (NEPS) Mentor


Qualifications and Certificates

  • PhD "Using the threshold concept framework to enhance entrepreneurship curricula in higher education" (Durham University, School of Education, 2020)
  • PG Cert Academic and Professional Learning, Northumbria University, 2011
  • MEng & Man, Masters of Mechanical Engineering, Manufacture and Management with French, Birmingham University, 1992
  • Senior Fellow Higher Education Academy
  • Chartered Manager (CMI)
  • Chartered Engineer (CEng)
  • Coach U Core Essentials Graduate (CEG) International Coach Federation
  • Level A & B Certificates (British Psychological Society) in Occupational Testing
  • MBTI and Insights Discovery
  • Team Mastery (Team Academy)


Previous Positions

  • Senior Lecturer in Leadership Development, Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, Newcastle
  • Programme Leader: BA (Hons) Entrepreneurial Business Management and BA (Hons) Business Leadership and Corporate Management
  • Head of Human Resources Nigel Wright Recruitment Ltd
  • Procter & Gamble (UK) Ltd, Compensation and Benefits Manager, UK Corporate Learning and Organisational Development Manager, Production Manager


Awards

  • 2023 Newcastle University Learning and Teaching Conference, Best Video submission.
  • 2016 Highly Commended Enterprise Catalyst by EEUK (Enterprise Educators UK)
  • 2016 Best Practitioner Development Workshop award at the ECSB (European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship) Enterprise Educators Conference.  


Memberships

  • British Academy of Management
  • Association of Management
  • Higher Education Academy (Senior Fellow)





Research

Current Work

My current research includes the application of the threshold concept approach in the development and evaluation of entrepreneurship education initiatives. I am exploring the relationship between personal values and meaning making, and the creation of value of all kinds as well as enterprise thinking and design thinking as pedagogical approaches. I lead an international group of Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Educators (“ETIC” – Entrepreneurship Threshold Concept International Collaboration), established in 2020, interested in using the Threshold Concept Framework to inform curriculum development, stemming from my PhD research.   


Main Expertise

My main expertise lies in conceptual, practice-based educational approaches to the development of entrepreneurial thinking in students of all disciplines. I completed my Doctorate part-time at Durham University in 2020, researching the use of the Threshold Concept Framework to enhance entrepreneurship curricula in Higher Education. I have conceived an innovative way of understanding the student perspective using concept mapping, and the involvement of external stakeholders in entrepreneurship curriculum development using a multi-method staged stakeholder curriculum inquiry. 


Funding Received

  • Evaluating Conception X - Northern Deeptech Hub, 2022 (£21,414.80)
  • Animating threshold concepts in entrepreneurial thinking (Digital Innovation in the Curricula Fund, Newcastle University Business School, 2021, (£6,000)
  • Enterprise Education and Research Project Fund (EERPF) with Dave Jarman at Bristol University, 2020/21 (£7,460) Identifying and Mapping Threshold Concepts of Entrepreneurship Across University Entrepreneurship Education Programmes


Esteem Indicators



Teaching



  • Degree Programme Director MBA
  • Joint Degree Programme Director for Executive MBA
  • Module Leader: NBS8970 Innovation and Change (MSc Strategic Leadership)
  • Module Leader: NBS8983 Innovation and Enterprise (EMBA)
  • NBS8991 Business Challenge Research Project (EMBA)


 

Publications