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Julian Grail

Senior Lecturer in Enterprise

I am very much a pracademic, having spent 25 years in senior roles either running or setting up businesses.

Biography

I teach a range of business-related subjects; I like to make my teaching and learning very practical and like to use real world examples wherever possible. I use lego as a tool for learning, after all who doesn’t like playing with lego. I coach and mentor start up business owners across a wide range of sectors.

Qualifications

  • PGCAP, Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice
  • PGC Research Methods
  • MSc Engineering Management
  • BSc Mechanical Engineering
  • City and Guilds – Graduateship.

Awards

Institution of Engineering and Technology – Career Achievement Award

Accreditation

  • Charter Manager of the Chartered Management Institute
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
  • AdvanceHE – External Examiner.

Membership of professional bodies

  • Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Teaching & Research

Teaching

  • Strategy
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Enterprise
  • Management Consultancy

Research

Current projects include Productivity Improvement, Organisational; Sensemaking, Female Entrepreneurship.

External responsibilities

I work as a Business Advisor supporting SME and Startup Businesses.

Subject for media interview

SMEs, Business Startup, Business Growth, Entrepreneurship

Professional positions

Trustee Forest of Dean Trust