Dr Alistair Bowden

Assistant Professor

School: Newcastle Business School

Alistair’s main interests are in strategy practice and process. In particular, he’s interested in strategizing – especially when no one says they’re ‘doing strategy’ – as an organic, emergent process that occurs through everyday interactions. He teaches third year and masters modules in strategy for a range of programmes involving students in practice (part time, distance learning, placement, and Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship). He is also the programme leader for the Senior Leader Higher Apprentiecship (taught element of the MBA). .

Alistair began his career as a museum curator, before becoming a field geologist at the British Geological Survey. He then set up the Dinosaur Coast, before returning to Durham, where he did his first degree in geology (1991-1994) and research in palaeontology and stratigraphy (1996-2001), to manage the County Council’s museums and heritage teams. After doing an MBA at Durham (2003-2005), Alistair took on a corporate project management role in the change team at Durham County Council, before leaving employment and setting up his own consultancy business and working with his wife to develop an equine stud for ten years.

Campus Address

City Campus East 1
Room 406

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Key Publications

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Bridging ESG and the Circular Economy: Advancing corporate sustainability through the updated R-Hierarchy and Circularity Scoring Model, Kopnina, H., Fellinger, E., de Jong, J., Bowden, A. 21 Jun 2025, In: Visions for Sustainability
Strategy in a circular economy: Discussion of opportunities and limitations, Kopnina, H., Bowden, A. 31 Oct 2023, Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management, Cham, Switzerland, Springer
Evolving public sector roles in the leadership of place-based partnerships: from controlling to influencing policy?, Bowden, A., Liddle, J. 2 Jan 2018, In: Regional Studies
From 3Cs to 5Cs: an expanded framework for understanding transitions in the formality of governance arrangements in cross-sector social partnerships, Blenkinsopp, J., Bowden, A., Hamza, N., Johnston, L., Myers, J. 12 Jun 2018, 6th Biennial International Symposium on Cross-Sector Social Interactions
Pushing the boundary of territory: ecomuseums as dynamic, open spaces, Bowden, A. 2018, In: Landscape Research
From Discrete Dichotomies to Plural Paradoxes: Re-viewing Stratigraphical Time, Temporality and Change, Bowden, A. 2017, In: KronoScope
Ecomuseums as cross-sector partnerships: governance, strategy and leadership, Bowden, A., Ciesielska, M. 2 Jan 2016, In: Public Money and Management

PGR Supervision

Alireza Shafiei A Qualitative Research into a Situation Where Burnout Appears Common but Engagement Remains High: A Case Study of the Public Sector of Islamic Republic of Iran Start Date: 01/02/2024 End Date: 17/10/2025
Alireza Shafiei Burnout and Engagement in the Public Healthcare Sector of Islamic Republic of Iran Start Date: 01/02/2024
Isobel Scibona Champagne: a place and a wine, through time Start Date: 01/10/2024
Isobel Scibona Champagne: a place and a wine, through time Start Date: 01/10/2024 End Date: 17/10/2025