Tony Wall

Senior Lecturer, Professional Development

Tony is a specialist in personal and organisational transformation through work-based learning – using ideas from leadership, learning and applied psychology to help practitioners work through and rigorously investigate real world situations, leading to deeper, longer-lasting impact.

Overview

Tony works closely with businesses and training organisations internationally to boost training and learning effectiveness through the university-accreditation of training courses – enabling trainees to make bigger, longer-lasting, impacts at work – and at the same time – achieve prestigious university qualifications.

Tony speaks internationally on issues related to work-based learning and personal transformation.

Roles

 • Senior Lecturer

 • Corporate Client Advisor / Pathway Leader

 • Principal Investigator (European project)

Memberships

• Chartered Institute for Personnel & Development (CIPD)

• Higher Education Academy (Fellow)

• Council for Adult & Experiential Learning (US)

• Commission for Accelerated Programs (US).

Teaching

• Negotiated work-based learning pathways at undergraduate and postgraduate levels

• Interdisciplinary work based learning undergraduate programme

• Research methods for work-based learning (lead)

• Corporate client advisor / pathway leader: coaching, mentoring and neuro-linguistic programming.

Research

• Principal investigator (European project) – recognition of prior learning outcomes

• Personal transformation through work-based learning and critical/creative reflection

• Flexible learning and organisational transformation

• Business development as business-university collaboration (ongoing doctoral research)

Published work

Published work include:

Dhillon, B. Felce, A., Minton, A. and Wall, T. (forthcoming) Making University Partnerships Work: Accrediting Employer Led Learning, Middlesex: Libri Publishing.

Meakin, D. and Wall, T. (2011) Co-Delivery of Higher Level Learning and Role Perceptions: A Practitioner Research Study, International Collaborative Action Research Network Conference, Vienna.

Meakin, D. and Wall, T. (2011) Contesting Ownership and Responsibility: A Practitioner Research Study, International Collaborative Action Research Network Conference, Vienna.

Wall, T. (2011) Commodification in Practitioner Research, International Collaborative Action Research Network Conference, Vienna.

Wall, T. (forthcoming) Diversity through negotiation, in Shaw, J et al (Eds) Inclusion in Higher Education, Middlesex: Libri Publishing.

Wall, T., Leonard, D. and Talbot, J. (2011) Practitioner Enquiry for Busy Professionals: An Accelerated Learning Model, International Collaborative Action Research Network Conference, Vienna.

Wall, T. (2011) Rapid Management Development of Practitioner Research Capacity, 7th European Conference on Leadership, Management and Governance, Nice, October 6th / 7th.

Wall, T. (2010) University models for work based validation, in Roodhouse, S. and Mumford, J. (Eds) Understanding Work Based Learning, Farnham: Gower, pp.41-54.

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