Closing date: 15 April 2009
Strong leadership of teaching can produce positive learning environments for students and staff, leading to enhanced student learning. Previous research has identified distinctive characteristics of leadership of teaching in those departments that are the most successful at teaching, such as development and maintenance of a ‘collegial culture’.

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Closing date: 15 April 2009
Assessment and feedback are fundamental to student learning: without feedback, students’ ability to understand complex concepts or to develop academic skills is likely to be very limited. However, students can experience difficulties and frustrations as they transition from a relatively didactic pedagogy at school to more discursive and developmental pedagogies which are common in higher education. One area which can be particularly difficult for students is in the changing nature of assessment and feedback.

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Closing date: 15 April 2009
A growing stream of activity at Oxford Brookes is focused on the practices of marketing strategy creation and the effective operationalisation of marketing strategies and plans. We are interested in research in areas of marketing strategy and marketing management, including processes for the creation of marketing strategies, target market selection and market segmentation, branding and brand positioning, strategic marketing planning, and the execution/management of these strategies and plans.

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Closing date: 15 April 2009
Services, consumer behaviour and CRM are strong interests for the Marketing Department at Oxford Brookes. Consumer satisfaction, service quality, branding of services, channel choice and management, customer relationship management and customer loyalty, are just some aspects of current research activity. Some of this research links with the Department’s strong interests in retailing management and retail marketing. We encourage applications into these areas of consumer behaviour and services marketing.

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