Gary Connor

Senior Lecturer - Human Resource Management

School of Marketing and Management
College of Business and Law

Email: gary.connor@coventry.ac.uk
LinkedIn: Gary Connor's profile
Telephone: +44 (0) 24 7765 9423

Biography

I worked in the steel industry for over twenty years before starting a career in higher education at Coventry University. I am now a Senior Lecturer at Coventry University and Course Director of the Human Resource Department’s Post-Graduate Master Top-Up programme. My main areas of research are the assessment of students with regard to employability, fairness, and inclusivity. Additionally, I am responsible for the teaching of research methods on HRM/HRD related programmes. Most recently, I achieved the status of senior fellow of the HEA and peer review for BAM, UFHRD, Sage and OUP.

Qualifications

Current – Studying PhD – Student Assessment
Postgraduate Certificate in Education, 2008
MA HRM – Distinction MA HRM, 2007
BA Honours - 1st Class in Business & HRM, 2006

Research interests

My PhD focuses on inclusivity in HE student assessment, with a critical realism underpinning. Areas of focus include the purpose of the business school, the status quo of assessment in Higher Education and the power of the voice to communicate knowledge & understanding, with the sole aim of creating change in how students are assessed in the 21st Century.

Recent outputs and publications

Connor, G., and Morris, A. (2015) Innovation in assessment. Unpublished booklet. Coventry University.
Connor, G. (2015) ‘The Student Voice’. in Realising Critical HRD: Stories of Reflecting, Voicing, and Enacting Critical Practice. Ed. by Callahan, J., Stewart, J., Rigg, C., Sambrook, S., and Trehan, K. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Callahan, J., and Connor. G. (2015) ‘The competing interests of paradigm and praxis in critical HRD research: Incorporating quantitative methods to enact critical practice’. in Handbook of Research Methods on Human Resource Development. ed. by Saunders, M., and Tosey, P. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 311-324.
Connor, G., McFadden, M., and McLean, I. (2012). ‘Organisational Design’. in Developing People and Organisations. ed. by Stewart, J., and Rogers. P. London: CIPD, 1-35.

Teaching

M08SMM – Research Methods
M09SMM – Consultancy Projects
M53HRM – Employee Engagement and Relations
M59HRM – HR Analytics

Areas of expertise

Student Assessment - Inclusivity
Research Methods
Research Philosophy
Research Design
Pedagogy
Employee Engagement