Staff profile
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Job title: Senior Lecturer
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Dept: Business School
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Tel: 01227 767700 ext 3080
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Campus: Canterbury
Biography
Colm has a B.A. (Hons) in Information Management and an MSc in Computing and Information Systems. He holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) and is qualified at postgraduate certificate level for the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
He holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCHET) and has a PhD from The Queens University of Belfast, specialising in the strategic evaluation of information systems (IS) projects for large organisations. Colm worked as an eBusiness consultant and senior product manager for nevadatele.com, the Irish subsidiary of Energis UK (PLC). He has also worked delivering consultancy for SME's and corporates implementing various eBusiness and strategy related initiatives.
Teaching and Academic Interests
Colm currently teaches Leadership and Management, as well as, Research Methods, on the MSc Business and Management. He has published in a variety of journals such as European Journal of Information Systems and twice in the Journal of Information Technology. Colm regularly reviews for leading peer reviewed international journals: Internet Research; Electronic Commerce and Research Applications and has recently reviewed papers for journals such as; the Journal of Strategic Information Systems; Policing, an International Journal of Police Strategy and Management, as well as, leading conferences, such as; The British Academy of Management (BAM) and the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS).
His research interests are varied and include the strategic evaluation of inter-organisational projects, enabled through technology innovations in the supply chain. He also has research interest in topics such as leadership and techno-change; social enterprise; expectations management; ethics; and policy-making in higher education with a number of colleagues from different institutions.|
Colm is currently working with Dr Heather McLaughlin on a joint knowledge transfer funded project concerning emerging governance enabled through information exchange in the maritime secto |r. He is also working with Ms Lynn Morris and Ms Katarzyna Staniszewska (PhD research) on the conceptual nature of social enterprise and the changing face of leadership and change within the public sector. He has also started working with Dr Wim van Vuuren, Ms Judith Crayford and Mr Dominic Wallace within the ‘Centre for Enterpreneurship and Innovation’ in The Business School at CCCU.
Colm previously has an early track record of funding with European projects in the private sector and small awards for knowledge transfer and teaching cases. He is currently applying for funding from various sources for social enterprise, as well as, eMaritime and supply chain projects in UK and EU.
He would be greatly interested in hearing from potential project partners for collaboration or funding bids in the areas of social enterprise, leadership and public sector, eGovernment, eMaritime or related research projects.
Subject Group
Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Management Decision Making
Publications, Working Papers and Conference Papers
Selection of work currently under journal review, and shortly submitted (2012):
Entrepreneurship education and employability(- under review - with Judith Crayford and Wim van Vuuren)
Evaluating transformational change, alignment and techno-change (- under review - with Sharon Manship, Heather McLaughlin and Dr Stephen Jackson).
Measuring strategic expectations from technology projects (- under review – with Heather McLaughlin and Stephen Jackson)
Managing stakeholder expectations (- under review - with Stephen Jackson)
Conceptual developments in corporate ethics (- under review - with Lucy Bowden, Heather McLaughlin and Stephen Jackson)
Employee engagement in a changing public sector context (- under review - with Lynn Morris and Heather McLaughlin)
Developments in international higher education (- under review - with Heather McLaughlin and Maria Esyutina)
Developments in leadership and higher education and policing (- to be submitted - with Sara Garratt and Heather McLaughlin)
eMaritime, information exchange and the new supply chain (- in review and to be submitted - with Heather McLaughlin and various external collaborators)
Conceptual developments in social enterprise (to be submitted - with Katarzyna Staniszewska, Lynn Morris and Heather McLaughlin)
Leadership and the new face of organisational change in the public sector (- in progress - with Rachel Davey, Heather McLaughlin and Lynn Morris)
Recent peer reviewed publications 2011/ 2012:
Hancock, J., Fearon, C. and McLaughlin, H. (2012), “Policing the ‘Drugs Intervention Programme’ (DIP):
An exploratory study of the Southern UK Policing Region”, forthcoming
Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice (Oxford University Press).
Standing, V., Fearon, C. and Dee, T. (2012), “Investigating the value of restorative practice: an action research study of one boy in a mixed secondary school”, forthcoming International Journal of Educational Management.
Fearon, C., Starr, S., and McLaughlin, H. (2012), “Blended learning in higher education (HE): Conceptualising key strategic issues within a Business School”, forthcoming Development and Learning in Organizations journal.
Fearon, C., McLaughlin, H. and Yoke Eng, T. (2012), “Using student group-work in higher education to emulate professional communities of practice”, forthcoming Education and Training journal.
Waikayi, L., Fearon, C., Morris, L. and McLaughlin, H. (2012), “Volunteer management: an exploratory case study within The British Red Cross”, forthcoming Management Decision journal.
Fearon, C., Starr, S., and McLaughlin, H. (2011), “Value of blended learning in university and the workplace: some experiences of university students”, Industrial and Commercial Training, Vol.43 No. 7, pp.446-450.
Morris, L. and Fearon, C. (2011), “Towards a new social enterprise governance (SEG) conceptual framework”, in proceedings of The British Academy of Management Conference, BAM September, Aston, Birmingham.
Merrick, I., Fearon, C. and Morris, L. (2011), “An exploratory study of employee motivation and empowerment at Sainsbury’s”, in proceedings of The British Academy of Management Conference, BAM September, Aston, Birmingham.