Dr Russell Warhurst

Russell subsequently moved into a public-private partnership role co-ordinating training and development before moving into a learning and development role with a major UK airline.  

Russell began his career as an academic at the then Newcastle Polytechnic in 1989 soon after the formation of Newcastle Business School.  During this time Russell led a HND in business enterprise and subsequently an MA in HRM validated by the CIPD. 

Moving on from NBS, Russell joined Leeds Business School and led CIPD programmes in Leeds and general business programmes in Hong Kong before being seconded to BMW-Rover Group where he led manager and leadership development programmes working across various manufacturing sites in the UK and Germany. 

Russell then moved to a Scottish university to lead manager and professional development within the university’s HRM department.  More recently Russell was at the University of Chester where he was Programme Director for MBA degrees and was partly seconded to a public-private partnership body, LDL, with an organisational development remit.  

Russell holds adjunct professorships at Moscow’s prestigious Institute of International Trade and Law and at AACSB accredited, and FT “top 20” European business school, Aalto University Business School in Finland.  Russell was awarded his Doctorate in 2006 for a study into professional learning in the workplace. 

Russell’s research interests currently include workplace learning and development, manager and leadership learning, organisational learning, knowledge and wisdom, later-career learning, manager identities and well-being at work.  

Russell has won numerous research awards, reviews for a number of journals and is currently co-editing  a book with NBS colleagues on identities and HRD.