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Professor Patrick McGurk

Patrick

Professor of Social Change Management Practice

Email: p.mcgurk@qmul.ac.uk
Telephone: +44(0) 20 7882 5977
Room Number: Currently on sabbatical
Office Hours: Currently on sabbatical

Profile

Roles:

Biography:

Patrick was Associate Dean for Education from 2020/21 to 2024/25, having held a number of leadership positions in higher and further education throughout his career.
Patrick is a specialist in leadership and management development and education, with a particular focus on public and nonprofit management for social change.

Patrick has a PhD from the London School of Economics, and holds a Dipl. Betriebswirt, BA Hons, MA and PGCE (Postgraduate Certificate in Education).

Teaching

Undergraduate:

  • BUS254: Sector and Organisational Understanding
  • BUS344: Mentoring and Coaching

 

Patrick is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) and a Certified Management and Business Educator (CMBE).

Research

Supervision

Current Doctoral Students:

External

  • Richard Meredith ‘Employer engagement with government employment and skills initiatives.' (with the University of Greenwich, completed March 2023)

Public Engagement

Patrick has served as external examiner for the BA Business Management and the OTH Regensburg partnership at Oxford Brookes University and the HRM Subject Group at University of East London. He served as an appointed member of the Mayor of London’s Skills for Londoners Stakeholder Advisory Group from 2017 to 2018 and currently serves as a member of the Learning, Teaching and Student Experience Committee of the Chartered Association of Business Schools.

‘Business schools as engines of social mobility’ by Patrick McGurk, Chartered Association of Business Schools, Opinion blog, 20 December 2024. https://charteredabs.org/insights/opinion/business-schools-as-engines-of-social-mobility

“Authentic learning through SKETCH” by Patrick McGurk, SKETCH blog series, June 2022. https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sketch/our-impact/authentic-learning-through-sketch/

‘Locker-room “banter” and racism in professional cricket is a leadership problem’ by Chandres Tejura and Patrick McGurk, CRED blog series, Queen Mary University of London, School of Business and Management, 29 November 2021. https://www.qmul.ac.uk/busman/newsandevents/general/items/cred-blog-series-locker-room-banter-and-racism-in-professional-cricket-is-a-leadership-problem.html

‘How to revitalise student knowledge exchange with local communities’, by Patrick McGurk, Joanne Zhang, Fezzan Ahmed and Olivia Reid, Times Higher Education Campus blog, 25 November 2021.
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-revitalise-student-knowledge-exchange-local-communities

“Students coming out of lockdown” by Sultana Azmi, Ishani Chandrasekara, Patrick McGurk, Lisa Morrison and Adarsh Ramchurn, CRED blog series, Queen Mary University of London, School of Business and Management, 11 August 2019.
https://www.qmul.ac.uk/busman/newsandevents/general/items/cred-blog-series---students-coming-out-of-lockdown.html

‘Radical Workplaces of the Future’, Chartered Management Institute Live-cast, 13 November 2019 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo6a1R2u0uw&list=LLFZ0wGOa0Q1rdz5LnSe3MhQ

‘Degree Apprenticeships’, BBC Asian Network Radio ‘Big Debate’ 23 October 2019 at https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0009lcm [1.41:30 to 1.53:10]

‘Degree Apprenticeships’, Third Sector Magazine Podcast broadcast 21 October 2019, at https://www.thirdsector.co.uk/third-sector-podcast-10-qualifications/communications/article/1663114

“Honda: why Swindon, like so much of England, is powerless to fight factory closures” by Patrick McGurk and Richard Meredith, The Conversation online magazine, 22 February 2019. http://theconversation.com/honda-why-swindon-like-so-much-of-england-is-powerless-to-fight-factory-closures-112252

British Academy Leverhulme Trust Project, ‘The 'Rooney Rule' for Black Managers in English Football: the effectiveness of the Voluntary Recruitment Code’, with Sian Moore (University of Greenwich) and Michael Seeraj (Charlton Athletic Community Trust), August 2016.

Scholarly Contributions

Patrick is currently on sabbatical preparing an edited collection for Bristol University Press on managing and leading for social change, as well as conducting research into community-engaged learning.

Centre and Group Membership:

Pedagogic publications:

  • Ingold, J. & McGurk, P. (eds) (2023) Employer Engagement, Bristol University Press (ISBN 978-1529222999).
  • McGurk, P and Meredith, R (2019). ‘Local employer engagement or distant elites? Local Enterprise Partnerships and employment and skills in England’, Journal of Education and Work. 31 (7-8), 692-714, https://doi.org/10.1080/13639080.2019.1572109
  • Van Berkel, R., Ingold, J., McGurk, P., Boselie, P., Bredgaard, T. (2017) "Editorial introduction: An introduction to employer engagement in the field of HRM. Blending insights from social policies and human resource policies", Human Resource Management Journal, 27(4), Special Issue ‘Employer engagement: connecting social policies and human resource policies for vulnerable labour market groups’. doi/10.1111/1748-8583.12169
  • McGurk, P and Allen, M. (2016) ‘Apprenticeships in England: impoverished but laddered’, Institute of Construction Economics Research, Michigan State University, Research Report available at: www.iceres.org/research .
  • McGurk, P. (2014) ‘Employer engagement with active labour market policy: a human resource management perspective’, University of Greenwich Business School Working Paper Series (#WERU7), May 2014, available at: http://gala.gre.ac.uk/11454/
  • Gornostaeva, G and McGurk, P. (2013) ‘Olympic Volunteering for the Unemployed: who benefits and how?’ International Journal of Employment Studies, 21(1): 5-30.
  • McGurk, P. (2013) ‘Management and leadership development in public service organisations’. In: Burke, R., Noblet, A. and C. Cooper (eds) Human resource management in the public sector, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 153-76.
  • McGurk, P. (2011) ‘Leaders in public service organisations’. In: Corby, S & Symon, G (eds) Working for the State: Employment Relations in the Public Services, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 166-188.
  • McGurk, P. (2010) ‘Outcomes of Management and Leadership Development’, Journal of Management Development, 29 (5): 457-70. DOI: 10.1108/02621711011039222 
  • McGurk, P. (2009) ‘Developing middle leaders? The realities of management and leadership development for public managers’, International Journal of Public Sector Management, 22 (6): 464-77. DOI: 10.1108/09513550910982841  (Highly Commended Paper in the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2010).

Student engagement activities:

Lead Academic, SKETCH Project (‘Student Knowledge Exchange Through Community Hubs’), Office for Students/Research England, September 2020 – August 2022 (£650,000). Find out more here about the SKETCH Project.

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