Danielle Talbot

As Deputy Dean (Accreditation and Partnerships), Dannie is responsible for securing and managing accreditations for the Faculty of Business and Law working together with the PVC Dean and colleagues in the faculty. She also has responsibility for developing long-term, sustainable partnerships for the faculty and the university.

Email: [email protected]

Background

Dannie Talbot has over 30 years’ experience of UK higher education having worked at Liverpool John Moores University, the Open University, Coventry University, and the University of Greenwich. She has held a wide range of roles including Head of School, Associate Dean, and Deputy Dean. Dannie has extensive experience in managing and securing accreditation and in sharing best-practice from the accreditation process. She has managed international partnerships and has participated in approval events across the globe.

Dannie’s research interests include person-environment fit, belongingness and diversity on boards, presented at conferences such as the Academy of Management and British Academy of Management and published in journals including the Academy of Management Journal. She collaborates on international research projects with academics from countries including Australia, South Africa and the USA and is a regular reviewer for both higher education pedagogy and organisational psychology journals. She is an external examiner and is regularly invited to participate in approval panels and doctoral viva.

Spoken Languages

• English
• Dutch

Research interests

• Person-Environment Fit
• Misfit
• Belongingness
• Diversity on Boards
• Leadership

Areas of research supervision

• Person-Environment Fit and Misfit

Qualifications

• PG Cert Higher Education Practice (Coventry University)
• PhD: Organisational Fit & Misfit: An Empirical Study of Similarities and Differences (Open University)
• MSc in Management & Business Research Methods (Open University)
• Master of Business Administration (MBA)
• B.A. (Hons) Business Studies

Memberships, editorial boards

• Certified Management and Business Educator
• Fellow Advance HE
• Fellow Chartered Management Institute

Research grants, consultancy, knowledge exchange

Billsberry, J and Talbot D. (editors) Employee Misfit: Theories, Perspectives, and New Directions, Springer. Book of collected chapters, due to be published in 2025

Goyal, R., Kakabadse, N., Kakabadse, A.,and Talbot, D. (2024). Seven Mantras for Board Chair Effectiveness: An Enlightened Approach for the 21st Century. Journal of Management Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1177/10564926231224213

Billsberry, J., Hollyoak, B. M., & Talbot, D. (2023). Insights into the lived experience of misfits at work: A netnographic study. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 32(2), 199-215. https://doi.org/10.1080/1359432X.2022.2120802

Goyal, R., Kakabadse, N., Kakabadse, A., & Talbot, D. (2023). Female board directors' resilience against gender discrimination. Gender, Work & Organization, 30(1), 197-222.

Hulene, G., Cronshaw, S., Davies, E., de Main, L., Holmes, H. Hope, A., Odindo, C. Page-Tickell, R., Rawal, A., Roberts, S., Talbot, D. Vieth, S. and Wolstencroft, P. (2023) Student Engagement Guidelines: Learning from innovative practices introduced in response to COVID-19, QAA.

Goyal, R., Kakabadse, N., Kakabadse, A., and Talbot, D.(2021). Institutional factors and board composition: The case of (missing) workers on UK boards. European Academy of Management Conference 2021 - Reshaping capitalism for a sustainable world. 16th-18th June 2021. Montreal, Canada. 

Goyal, R., Kakabadse, N., Kakabadse, A. and Talbot, D. (2021) Female board directors’ resilience against gender discrimination. Gender, Work and Organization. DOI: 10.1111/gwao.12669.

Coldwell, D. A. L., Williamson, M., and Talbot, D. (2019) Organizational socialization and ethical fit: a conceptual development by serendipity, Personnel Review, https://doi.org/10.1108/ PR-11-2017-0347

Follmer, E. H., Talbot, D., Kristof-Brown, A. L., Astrove, S. L. L., and Billsberry, J. (2018). Resolution, Relief, and Resignation: A Qualitative Study of Responses to Misfit at Work. Academy of Management Journal.

Recent presentations and conferences

Talbot, D. L. (2023) Keynote presentation at FCBEM 2023 – FPT Education Conference, Can Tho, Vietnam. ‘The Importance of Sustainable Partnerships.’ 

Talbot, D. L. (2022) Keynote presentation at the Learning & Teaching Festival, University of Greenwich, London, UK. ‘Inspiring through Work Based Learning.’