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Dr Felicity Healey-Benson BSc, PGCE, MBA, MA (HRM), DBA, FHEA.

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IICED Entrepreneurial Learning Champion (Publications, Projects, and Collaborations), Lecturer in Entrepreneurship

Institute of Management and Health


Tel: 01792 481163
Email: felicity.healey-benson@uwtsd.ac.uk

Role in the University

Lead Researcher and Entrepreneurial Learning Champion with responsibility for Publications, Projects, and Collaborations. I bring a persuasive and energetic communication of ideas, written and oral. Passionate about building and nurturing relationships and networks, I help build the community within our entrepreneurship projects.

I have taught across a breadth of undergraduate- and postgraduate-level modules (online and face-to-face) within the Business, Sustainability Leadership, and Entrepreneurship portfolios. I am the Project Lead Wales for EntreCompEdu, an Erasmus+ project.

Background

Felicity completed her doctoral study in 2023; a three-year phenomenological research study on the lived experiences of educators facilitating higher-order thinking skills.

As part of my role at IICED I am a member of the Erasmus+ funded EntreCompEdu Steering Group, which aims to develop teachers’ entrepreneurial education skills through global access online continuing professional development (CPD) underpinned by the European Entrepreneurship Competence Framework.

I am passionate about sustainability and am co-founder of the UWTSD spin-out the Harmonious Entrepreneurship Society (also co-director of Harmonious Sustainability Ltd.) along with Professor David A. Kirby.

A writer and academic entrepreneur, I founded Emergent Thinkers.com which identifies and shares new educational and business practices to promote sustainability and support wider economic and social development.

I also am also co-founder of hanfod.NL  with Dr Mike Johnson which seeds a vibrant community of phenomenological enquiry within the broad context that is networked learning.

As an experienced Kaizen Technician and Engineer and Learning and Development professional, I have supported culture change and the embedding of continuous improvement principles. I have engaged in skills development in management and leadership from the shop floor to the boardroom across a breadth of sectors to support improved personal and organisational performance before migrating into education.

Critical, creative and caring thinking, entrepreneurial learning and harmonious entrepreneurship with education are now priority areas of focus.

  • Qualifications: BSc, PGCE, MBA, MA (HRM), PG Dip CIPD, Dip. NLP, SAC. Dip, Academic Assoc. CIPD, Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy 

Academic Interests

I have expertise in online distance learning, including the development of critical and creative thinking skills. My undergraduate and postgraduate portfolio includes human resources, leadership and management, business and enterprise, entrepreneurship, marketing, sustainability, and qualifications accredited by the CIPD, CIPS, CIM, CMI, and ACCA.

Along with Paul Ranson and Hazel Israel, I developed the new online PG CERT in Enterprise Skills 2022.

Research Interests

  • Entrepreneurship
  • Harmonious Entrepreneurship
  • Phenomenology
  • The development of the 4IR Educator
  • Complexity Theory
  • Critical Thinking and Creative Thinking skill development
  • Innovative Pedagogy and Technology-based Assessment
  • Online/Distance Learning
  • Applied Sustainability

Expertise

  • Entrepreneurship Projects including Project Lead Wales of six-country Erasmus+ project, EntreCompEdu (implementation of a global online CPD tool for educators
  • Helped Dafen Primary School achieved EntreCompEdu Whole School Pioneer Award
  • Co-founder of Hanfod.NL
  • Co-found of Harmonious Entrepreneurship Society (Ltd.)
  • Founder of Emergent Thinkers
  • Founder of Pirates in Education (promoting positive challenge and ‘changer-maker’ behaviour in education) 
  • In addition to consultancy projects with private and not-for-profit clients, roles held within Unipart, Metapack, the Gwalia Group, and Amazon, I have delivered business consultancy support aligned with University accredited training and development for in-house bespoke staff development.