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Professor Geoffrey Lancaster

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Geoffrey LancasterProfessor Geoffrey Lancaster  MSc, PhD, FCIM, FLCC, MCMI, MCIPS

Experience  7 years purchasing/marketing – Thorn/EMI; Whessoe; Underground Mining Machinery

2 years National Service (Signals Intelligence, GCHQ) + Territorial Army (Captain)

5 years Lecturer to Principal Lecturer in Marketing – Newcastle Polytechnic (now Northumbria Univ) and Colchester Institute

18 years (until March 1989) Principal Lecturer to Reader to Professor of Marketing – Huddersfield Polytechnic (now University of  Huddersfield)

Jan 1990 – March 1996 Part-time consultant to MBA by Distance Learning, Durham University/RRC Open-Learning and Professorial Fellow – Durham University Business School

From 1989 – Founding Chairman (part-time) Durham Associates Group Limited, Castle Eden, Co. Durham – see group websites above. Management, media and communications consultants from strategic planning to computerised graphic design to copywriting to video production for a number of large public companies (eg Microsoft [UK]; Procter & Gamble; United Utilities; Northumbrian Water; ICI, Kvaerner and associated companies Trafalgar House, Balfour-Beatty, MacAlpine and Davy Group). Independent programme producers for Tyne-Tees Television. Owners of media website www.sportnetwork.net (approx 12 million hits per month). Currently employing 18 staff at Castle Eden, Co Durham

June 1989 – Dec 1997 (half-time research/teaching) University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Department of Agricultural Economics & Food Marketing – (5 research ranked)

Fellow, 1992 – London Chamber of Commerce & Industry: services to business education

From 1990 – Founding Chairman (part-time) Management Development Centre Limited (part of Durham Associates Group Ltd) Provision of MSc Marketing, MSc Finance and

MSc Purchasing for University of Glamorgan

From 1994 – Founding Chairman (part-time) Management Development Centre International Ltd (MDCI) Bahrain. Managing agents for Hull University, Dublin City

University, Reading University and UNISA for on-location programmes: diploma, degree and MBA/DBA from main office in Bahrain, and sub-offices in Dhahran (KSA) and Oman. Provision of Management consultancy services through Middle East Consultants Ltd – main clients Rasgas and Q-gas. MDCI & MEC employ 20 staff

The Durham Associates Group of Companies received the Queen’s Award for export achievement in 1999 at our offices in Castle Eden from the Prime Minister, Tony Blair

Sept 1996 – April 1999 Visiting Professor of Business Policy (3A research ranked) Univ of Lincoln

Jan 00 – date Half-time Dean of Academic Studies, London School of Commerce/School of Technology & Management, Chaucer House, White Hart Yard, London SE1 1NX running first degree and masters programmes for the Universities of East London,

Coventry, Sunderland and University of Wales Institute, Cardiff

Feb 00 – July 03 Half-time Research Professor of Marketing, London Metropolitan University (3A and 3B research ranked departments)

July 03 – date Part-time Provost, City of London College, 71 Whitechapel High Street, LONDON E1 7PL

Sept 05 – Feb 06 visiting Research Professor of Marketing, Liverpool John Moores University

Senior Examiner/Senior Academic Adviser (1982 – 1998) – Chartered Institute of Marketing  (Responsible, as part of a team of four, for researching and developing Syllabus 94)

Chief Examiner (1973 – 1998) - London Chamber of Commerce & Industry

Diploma Senior Examiner (1990 – 1998) – Association of Business Executives and Examiner for Advanced Diploma Case Study in Business Policy from 1985 to Summer 2000. Moderator 2000 - date.

Chief Examiner for the new ABE marketing diploma July 2005 – relinquished this appointment November 2007 upon successful acceptance by QCA – now moderator
Previously examiner to Chartered Institute of Transport and Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply

Chief Examiner (1998 – 2003) Institute of Sales & Marketing Management

Current/previous University external examinerships
Current: Leeds Metropolitan Univ; International Management Centres, Buckingham
Previous: Univ of Wales, Swansea; Univ of Wales, Cardiff; Bradford Univ; Guildhall Univ; Salford Univ; Greenwich Univ; Surrey Univ; de Montfort Univ (final year as Chief External Examiner); Univ of East London

PhD/MPhil viva voce external examiner University of Wales, Swansea (6) Universities of Bradford (2) Surrey (2) Cranfield (1) Durham (2) Sheffield Hallam (2) Guildhall (2) Oxford-Brookes (1) Glamorgan (2) Huddersfield (2) East London (3) Anglia Ruskin University (2) Macquarie University, Sydney (2) University of Western Sydney (2) Charles Sturt University New South Wales (2) Southern Cross University, New South Wales (1)

Current and previous MBA, MPhil and PhD supervisions Universities of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Durham, Huddersfield, London Metropolitan, Lincoln, Hull, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, Liverpool John Moores and Henley Management College

Visiting Professor of Marketing: Macquarie University, Sydney – Feb/April 1996, Feb/April 1997, March/July 1998, March/July 1999, March/July 2000, March/July 2001

Marketing textbooks, conference papers and refereed journals Approx 50 business texts, largely marketing and related specialisms – techniques, strategy, research methods, etc., with McGraw-Hill, Prentice Hall, Butterworth-Heinemann, Macmillan and Kogan Page and 100+ refereed journal and conference papers.