Biography
Professor Denise Hewlett is an Honorary Visiting Professor at HSU. She has extensive academic experience, having worked for nearly 25 years in Business Schools in the UK and across the EU. She has been the Head of the Business School at HSU, and at other institutions. She has been the founder and director of two key international Research Centres: specialising in innovative, multidisciplinary applied research in the fields of business management, private and public sector focus, policy formulation, planning policy and socio-economic, sustainable development agendas.
Her most recent applied research activities, include: determining the effect of spatial settings on workforce wellbeing: and developing collaborative partnerships, for developing place-based policy making.
She is a member of the British Academy of Management (BAM), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health (FRSPH), an Academic Member of the Landscape Institute (AMLI), Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society (FRGS), and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). Additionally, she is active in progressing international agendas for sustainable development and is a member of Specialist International Taskforces where she has also acted as Chair of several key groups.
Denise is passionate about student centred learning, about providing experiential learning opportunities, about developing strong networks that support staff in developing successful careers, through the co-creation of collaborative partnerships. She is totally committed to working with professional organisations in providing for programmes that meet employers’ requirements.
Prior to her academic career, Denise worked at Executive level for blue chip, private sector, international organisations in central London. As her academic career has developed so too has she extended her portfolio of practice to include working in the public sector for national, regional and EU governing organisations. Denise has also worked extensively with charitable organisations and social enterprises.
