Alan has spent eighteen years teaching and managing within the Higher Education and Further Education Sectors, including Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool Hope University, Edge Hill University, and the University of Chester. Alan has held strategic and operational responsibility for large teams of staff and substantial budgets within two Further Education Colleges. He is experienced in performance management, recruitment and selection, and manpower planning. During the recent years Alan worked on the validation of a number of degree programmes for delivery here at York St John University and overseas. At present Alan teaches across the full range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes we offer within YSJ Business School, and is working towards his doctorate.