Xiaoxian Zhu

Dr Xiaoxian Zhu specialises in talent management, learning&development and employability in high-tech industries. She is the REF Lead for UoA Business & Management and a Postgraduate Research Tutor. She is a programme leader of MA in HRM at Teesside University Business School, an academic member of CIPD and a subject examiner of international examining bodies. For her academic performance in this field, she has a good record of high quality public presentations in the UK and internationally, publications and research funding. She is a Distinguished Professor at Xi'an International University and a Visiting Professor at Zhejiang University of Technology, China.

Xiaoxian has taught in HRM and Business Management at undergraduate, postgraduate and doctorate levels at universities in the UK and overseas. She has held roles of principal lecturer (International) and programme leader of MBA at TUBS. She has served leading UK universities for online MBA and MSc HRM programmes. Prior to her academic career, she was a marketing executive at Porsche Centre China.

• Talent Management
• International HRM
• Learning and Development; Skills, training and employability; Knowledge management
• SME and Entrepreneurship, Tech, Regional development

Research Awards, Honours and Prizes:

• 'Creative Fuse North East’, AHRC. Co-Investigator. 2016-2018
• ‘Emergency Medical Response Evaluation’, ILG. Co-Investigator. 2016
• ‘Prime Minister Initiative 2 (PMI2) British Council Project on Regional Economic Development and University Educational partnership between UK and China’. LeedsMet-ZJUT. With Prof. J. Shutt and Prof. P. Iles.  Funded by British Council. 2010-2013.
• ‘Fun Door: An open door for your better future career’ Project. CEEMAN 2012 Global Challenge Future Competition. Finalist. With Tingting Jiang. Grand Summit Funded by CEEMAN and UNESCO.
• ‘Talent Management and Employability in High-Tech Industries in Hangzhou, China’. As part of PhD, working with Prof P. Iles, Prof G. Aouad. Awarded Postgraduate Research Funding, University of Salford, 2010/2011 and 2011/2012.
• ‘Talent Management and HRD in high-tech’. Research Funding. Centre of Organisational Behaviour and Leadership Research, University of Salford, 2010/2011 and 2011/2012.
• ‘Organisational Transformation and Innovative Development in Industrial Leading Enterprises in Zhejiang, China’. With Prof H. Cheng and Prof. J. Shutt. Funded by Zhejiang Province Government and High Education Key Research Centres. 2011-2013.

Xiaoxian is currently supervising (DoS) the following research students:

• Maragaret Amala (PhD, Learning and development in public sector)
• Euphemia Okoye (PhD, Talent Management and Human capital development)
• Kholud Ben Salim (PhD, Talent Management)
• Kristofer Costello (PhD, Talent Management)
• Muhammad Arslan (PhD, CRS, Organisational development and SMEs)
• Anil Kumar (PhD, Decision Making, organisational development)
• Tim Low (PhD, Decision Making)
• Sayed Alawi (DBA, Learning and development)
• Elizabeth Coffin (DBA, Employee engagement and organisational development)

She is currently co-supervising (2nd supervisor) the following research students:

• Ze Gao (PhD, Gender issues and Talent Management)
• Alsharif Abogsesa (PhD, Talent Management)

Non-Executive Advisory Board: Summit

FHEA, Certified online academic facilitator.

Modules:

• Learning and Development (L7)
• Human Resource Planning (L7)
• Data Analysis and Presentation (Doctorate)
• Research Methods for Doctorate Students (Doctorate)

• Academic Member CIPD, Committee Member CIPD Tees Valley
• Academic Advisory Board: Overseas Returnees Centre
• Association of Business Executive
• PhD external examiner, Sunderland University, 2016-2018
• External Examiner, University of Greenwich, 2018-2022
• Distinguished Professor: Xi'an International University, China