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Dr Melissa Hawkins

Lecturer

Department: Newcastle Business School

Melissa is an academic at Northumbria University's Business School, with research interests shaped by over twenty years of experience in education, including time spent as a teacher practitioner in schools. Her work centres on developing complexity-informed policy and practice through utilizing action-oriented research methods. Melissa adopts an engaged scholarship approach to her role, actively linking research and knowledge exchange with teaching and learning activities.

Melissa Hawkins

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • Why teacher appraisals need SMARTER targets, James, C., Hawkins, M. 3 Jan 2024
  • Harnessing Complexity for better outcomes in Public and Non-profit Services, French, M., Hesselgreaves, H., Wilson, R., Hawkins, M., Lowe, T. 23 Feb 2023
  • New development: Learning communities—an approach to dismantling barriers to collective improvement, Wilson, L., Hawkins, M., French, M., Lowe, T., Hesselgreaves, H. 19 May 2023, In: Public Money and Management
  • Reflective practice at 40: why it’s still a vital leadership tool, James, C., Hawkins, M., Gilbride, N., Connolly, M. 20 Sep 2023
  • Secular discernment: A process of individual unlearning and collective relearning, Burton, N., Vu, M., Hawkins, M. 1 Nov 2023, In: Management Learning
  • Using complexity theory to understand the problematic nature of performance management in schools in England, Hawkins, M. 28 Jun 2023
  • Managing the complexity of outcomes: a new approach to performance measurement and management, French, M., Lowe, T., Wilson, R., Rhodes, M., Hawkins, M. 7 May 2021, Handbook on performance management in the public sector, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar
  • Navigating complexity: The future of public service, Lowe, T., French, M., Hawkins, M. 1 Jun 2021, The Palgrave Handbook of the Public Servant, Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan
  • New development: Responding to complexity in public services—the human learning systems approach, Lowe, T., French, M., Hawkins, M., Hesselgreaves, H., Wilson, R. 3 Oct 2021, In: Public Money and Management

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • Other: Capabilities in Academic Policy Engagement (CAPE) Fellowship 2023
  • Other: Relational Public Services Annual Conference 2023
  • Other: Impact Case Study: Transforming public services through new commissioning and management priorities 2021
  • Other: Externally Funded Research Project: Funding and Commissioning in Complexity 2018

  • Education PhD June 28 2023
  • Education MA December 13 2012
  • Education PGCE June 18 2003
  • Philosophy BA (Hons) July 07 2001
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy FHEA
  • Qualified Teacher Status QTS


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