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Dr Heather McLaughlin
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Job title: Director of the Business School
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Dept: Business School
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Tel: 01227 782985
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Campus: Canterbury
Biography
Heather is a consultant and active researcher with expertise in international business, finance and logistics where she has long been involved in maritime policy development. She acted as Specialist Adviser to the ‘House of Commons Select Committee for Transport on the Inquiry into the future of UK ports’. More recently she has secured substantial grants (300,000 Euro: 2008-2011) from the European Commission for projects that promote the use of water freight transport in the EU member states.
A graduate of Lancaster University with a BA (Hons) in Economics, she went on to qualify as a Chartered Accountant with Price Waterhouse Coopers in London (5 years). She then joined IBM Head Office as a Financial Analyst responsible for forecasting product profitability for the UK. Heather joined academia in 1992, gaining an MSc in Business Finance from Brunel, and a PhD in Currency Risk at London Guildhall whilst lecturing in accounting and finance.
She was Director of the ‘Centre for International Transport Management’ at London Metropolitan University from 2003 before becoming Head of Consultancy for the ‘Global Policy Research Institute’ in 2008. During that time she established and was Director of the government funded agency 'Sea and Water'. She remains well connected in the 'City of London' and will become Master of the ‘Worshipful Company of World Traders’ Livery in 2013.
During her academic career, she has successfully supervised a number of doctoral students and acted as external examiner for PhD and masters programmes worldwide including Hong Kong and Belgium. She is currently Editor-in-Chief of the leading academic maritime journal 'Maritime Policy and Management’ and retains a close affiliation with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University where she is external adviser to the Department of Logistics and Maritime Transport.
She joined Canterbury Christ Church in June 2010.
Teaching and Academic Interests
Heather teaches Finance and Forensic Accounting and is responsible for curriculum development in Accounting and Finance. She is also Director of MSc Programmes in the Business School. Her research interests lie in international business, finance, logistics, governance and business education.
She is also a member of the Board of Governors for ‘Dover Christ Church Academy’ and Responsible Officer.
Subject Group
Accounting and Finance
Just Published - Book Chapters (2010-2011)
Rodrigues, O. and McLaughlin, H., (2010) ‘Do Shipping Mergers and Acquisitions add Corporate Value?’, in Cullinane, K. (ed.) The International Handbook of Maritime Economics and Business, Edward Elgar.
McLaughlin, H, (2010), ’Shipping Finance’, in Alderton, P., Sea Transport Operation and Economics, (6th edition), Reeds.
McLaughlin, H. (2011), ‘Promoting Short sea shipping as part of the logistics chain’, in Vanelslander, T and Van de Voorde (eds.) Applied Transport Economics: A Management and Policy Perspective, De Boeck.
McLaughlin, H, (2011), ‘Seafarers and Seafaring’, in Talley, W. (ed.) Maritime Business, Blackwell-Wiley, (forthcoming)
Just Published - & Forthcoming Journal Publications (2011-12)
Fearon, C., Starr, S., and McLaughlin, H. “Value of blended learning in university and the workplace: some experiences of university students”, forthcoming Industrial and Commercial Training journal.
Fearon, C., Starr, S., and McLaughlin, H. “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. “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. “Volunteer management: an exploratory case study within The British Red Cross”, forthcoming Management Decision journal.
Hancock, J., Fearon, C. and McLaughlin, H. “Policing the ‘Drugs Intervention Programme’ (DIP):
An exploratory study of the Southern UK Policing Region”,
Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice (Oxford University Press) – awaiting decision from second round of review.
Fearon, C., McLaughlin, H., Iannacci, F. and Jackson, S. "Measuring and evaluating IS expectations and benefit success from B2B electronic trading: a new survey approach", subject to second round of review in Behaviour and Information Technology journal.
Journal Publications - Currently Under Review & Recently Submitted (Sept 2011)
Journal of Business Ethics; Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing; Environment and Planning A; Information and Organization; Communications of the ACM.
Current Working Papers and Research Projects (2011-2012)
eMaritime, information exchange and the new supply chain (with Dr Colm Fearon and various external collaborators)
Conceptual developments in social enterprise (with Ms Lynn Morris, Ms Katarzyna Staniszewska and Dr Colm Fearon)
Conceptual developments in managing expectations for strategy (with Dr Colm Fearon and Dr Stephen Jackson)
Evaluating IS enabled transformational change, alignment and techno-change (with Ms Sharon Manship, Dr Colm Fearon and Dr Stephen Jackson).
Conceptual developments in computer and corporate ethics (with Ms Lucy Bowden, Dr Colm Fearon and Mr Tim Dee)
Leadership and the new face of organisational change in the public sector (with Ms Rachel Davey, Ms Lucia Sismisova, Dr Colm Fearon and Ms Lynn Morris)
Employee leadership and motivation in a changing public sector - policing (with Ms Lynn Morris, Dr Colm Fearon)
Blended learning and developments in HE pedagogy (with Dr Colm Fearon, Mr Simon Starr and Ms Maria Esyutina)
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Selected Earlier Publications - Books, Chapters, Journal Papers, Leading Impact Reports and Conference Papers
Books
International Maritime Transport, Perspectives, edited H Leggate, J McConville, A Morvillo, Routledge, January 2005.
The Water Freight Review
2005, November 2005 (with V Bojkova and J McConville), Sea and Water, London.
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Chapters in Edited Books
Shipping Finance, chapter in Sea Transport Operation and Economics, by PM Alderton, 5th edition, 2004.
Financial Risks and Opportunities, chapter in International Maritime Transport, Perspectives, Routledge, edited by Leggate, McConville and Morvillo, January 2005.
The Future Shortage of Seafarers: Will it become Reality? in International Maritime Transport, Perspectives, Routledge, edited by Leggate, McConville and Morvillo, January 2005.
The Surge in Regulation, (with Patrick Alderton) in International Maritime Transport, Perspectives, Routledge, edited by Leggate, McConville and Morvillo, January 2005.
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Journal Articles
Challenges in Promoting Short Sea Shipping (2009), Shipping International – An industry journal
Mergers and Acquisitions (2008), Lloyds Shipping Economist
Tonnage Tax: Is it Working? (2005), Maritime Policy and Management, 32 (2) 177-186.
The Future Shortage of Seafarers: Will it become Reality? (2004), Maritime Policy and Management, 31 (1), 1-11.
Perceptions of Foreign Exchange Risk in the Shipping Industry, with K Akatsuka, (2001), Maritime Policy and Management, 28 (3), 235-249.
A European Perspective on Bond Finance for the Maritime Industry, (2000), Maritime Policy and Management, 27 (4), 353-362.
Norwegian Shipping: Measuring Foreign Exchange Risk, (1999), Maritime Policy and Management, 26 (1), 81-92.
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Leading Impact Reports
International Labour Organisation - Key Report
Meeting of Experts on Working and Living Conditions of Seafarers on board Ships in International Registers, Report I Geneva, 2002
Department for Transport – Key Reports
The Potential for Water Freight in the UK : A Survey of Business Attitudes and Opinions, 2007, (with Viara Bojkova)
The Potential for Water Freight : A review of existing studies and reports, 2007 (with Viara Bojkova)
European Commission – Key Report
E-Maritime Policy, Periodic Study for DGMOVE to inform the Impact Assessment of E-Maritime Directives, 2010.
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Selected Conference Papers
Development of e-maritime policy, European Maritime Day, Gijon, Spain, May 2010.
Trends in Port Investment, Transport Research Forum Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon, March 2009.
Are Shipping companies going green? International Forum on Shipping, Ports and Airports, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, May 2008.
Climate Change and the Shipping Industry, University of Singapore, December 2007.