Helen Charlton

Dr Helen Charlton

Associate Professor

Department: Newcastle Business School

Helen is an Associate Professor and Head of Executive Education for the Business School. Helen’s remit includes all business apprenticeships, executive CPD programmes, and our distance learning programmes.

Helen's teaching focusses on practice related HRM at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She has taught within HRM-related programmes in FE and HE for over a decade, and has specialised in the development of students’ academic and employability skills.

Helen’s professional practice was in senior HR management in the not-for-profit and arts sectors.

Helen holds a Doctorate in Education and a Masters in Human Resource Management. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, is a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development, and a Chartered Manager and Fellow of CMI.

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

Helen's research interests focus on the experience of engagement with higher education for work based learners, particularly within apprenticeships. In addition, she is active in exploring contemporary higher education practices, and the application of knowledge to professional practice within human resource management. Helen is a qualitative reseracher, specialising in interpretative phenomenological analysis.

Key Publications

A Sector in Crisis? Insights from how English Higher Education Apprenticeships are Weathering the Storm, Power-Mason, P., Charlton, H., Walker-Martin, F., Bloomfield, S. 19 Nov 2024, In: Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
A Spontaneous Outbreak of Education, Charlton, H., Collins, D. 25 May 2022, Chartered Association of Business Schools, Learning Teaching and Student Experience Conference
Higher education under threat: China, Malaysia, and the UK respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, Ma, G., Black, K., Blenkinsopp, J., Charlton, H., Hookham, C., Pok, W., Sia, B., Alkarabsheh, O. 4 Jul 2022, In: Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education
How do we facilitate effective learning support in novel situations?: A case study of technology-enhanced personalisation supporting effective Higher Apprenticeship pedagogy, Charlton, H., Andrew, W. 6 Sep 2022, Association for Learning Technology, Annual Conference 2022
Mind the gap: Conceptualising and experiencing the space between academic and practice communities in HRM/D education, Charlton, H. 11 Nov 2021, Organisation and Human Resource Management, London, Taylor & Francis
A research methods case of interpretative phenomenological analysis: using consensus workshops and focus groups in an idiographic methodology, Charlton, H., Hayes, C. 2018, SAGE Research Methods Cases, SAGE
Integrating and evidencing the professional development journey in a degree apprenticeship programme, Stalker, B., Charlton, H., Viney, P. 24 Apr 2018, Chartered Association of Business Schools Learning, Teaching and Student Experience Conference
Sharing learning from the design, development and delivery of a degree apprenticeship programme, Stalker, B., Charlton, H. 6 Jun 2018, University Forum for Human Resource Development 18th International Conference
Using Consensus Workshop in the Classroom: Promoting Participation and Collaboration in Large Group Settings, Charlton, H. 1 Dec 2018, In: Management Teaching Review
Understanding part-time postgraduate student experience in the context of landscapes of practice: The experiences of Human Resource Management practitioners engaged in concurrent study, Charlton, H. Dec 2017, Society for Research into Higher Education

Professional Activity

Other: Developing an evidence-based health and wellbeing resource pack to improve employee engagement 2021
Oral presentation: 'Using a collection method in an idiographic methodology' 2018

Further Information

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Qualifications

Teaching & Learning PGCLTHE
Education
Human Resource Management MSc
Chartered Manager and Chartered Fellow - Chartered Management Institute CMngr FCMI 2018
Chartered Member of Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development Chartered MCIPD
Senior Fellow (SFHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA)

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