Programme Leader & Senior Lecturer in Business & Management; Transformative Service Researcher, Educationalist, Ecologist, Environmental Scientist, Geographer, Horticulturalist, Garden Designer, Landscaper, Gardener, Charity Worker & Volunteer.

Interested in the work of the botanical community & reimagining, redefining co-creative opportunities for Botanic Gardens to innovate on ecosystemic thinking & integrated marketing communications of research, conservation, education, & plant collections for the vitality & viability of places & to nurture individual & societal health & well-being, & mindful international visitor economies.

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Dedicated to facilitating & improving individual & societal health & well-being via Transformative Service Research. Innovates on academia & practice for sustainable & responsible, transformative place & service making, marketing, management & development.

Background in social enterprise, horticulture, ecosystem management, environmental studies & education. However, has worked across a number of contrasting sectors & businesses.

Nick has taught & assessed on RQF introductory to level 7 leadership & management curriculae across public, private & voluntary sectors.

Leadership & Management at a glance

• Programme Leader for Business Analytics, International Business, Business & Management (BM) with Leisure & Tourism, BM with Human Resource Management, & Business Innovation & Enterprise (9 Undergraduate Degree Programmes & 40+ delivery team, academic year's 2019-2020, 2020-2021, now split PL between Stephanie Wearing-Kennedy & Dr. Chris Doran-BM, Dr. Aisha Ijaz-BM with Marketing, Dr. Stuart Marsh BM with Accounting & Finance, & Dr. Kamila Tomczak BM with Economics, 2024-Present day). 

• Leads & manages the BSc (Hons) Business & Management (Leisure & Tourism pathway) RQF 4-6 for Edge Hill University Business School (2011-present day); BSc (Hons) Business Analytics and BSc (Hons) International Business RQF 4-6 (2024-present day). 

• Wrote & developed a DipHE Tourism Management RQF 4-5 for Edge Hill University & Chengdu University of Technology (2011). Ongoing consultation (2011-present day). 

• Programme Leader for FdA Leisure & Tourism Management RQF 4-5 (2006-11). Co-authored, developed, led & managed the programme, modules, related teaching team, & portfolio of Work Based Learning Providers from across the North West of England, UK. 

• Developer, Lead Assessor & Internal Verifier of ILM City & Guilds VRQs & NVQs in Leadership & Management RQF 2-7 (2009-11). Managed a portfolio of clients, trainers, & assessors (2008-11). 

• Led, managed & taught A-Level & BTEC curriculae RQF 1-3. Led & wrote the Leisure & Tourism gateway document for the then New 14-19 Diplomas amongst other curriculum development & management. Led & managed a range of vocational education/training related EU funded projects (2001-06).

Honour-Awards

• MCMI - Member of the Chartered Management Institute, the UK-based professional institution for managers.
• FIPM - Fellow of the Institute of Place Management, the international professional body that supports people committed to developing, managing & making places better.
• FHEA - Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, professional membership promoting excellence in Higher Education.
• MAM - Member of the Academy of Marketing, a learned society of marketing researchers, educators & professionals. 

• Transformative Service 
• Sustainability
• Service & Place Making, Marketing, Management & Development
  • contexts of greenspace, parks, gardens, garden centres, litterscapes, volunteering, wild/open swimming, inclusive transport infrastructure, charity shops/opportunity shops, charity retail, dark digital place, transformative hospitality service, soup kitchens, care giving, NHS, homelessness & houselessness, hunger, poverty, creative enterprise, visitor economy, experiential economy, the list is not exhaustive.
• Tourism Marketing & Management
  • Visiting Places, Accessible Tourism, Garden Tourism, Heritage Tourism, Dark Tourism

Reviewer for Taylor & Francis's Journal of Marketing Management (JMM) , & the Academy of Marketing (AM), Emerald's Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development (JCHMSD) & Journal of Place Management & Development (JPMD), Elsevier's Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism (JORT), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., PPP Plants People Planet The New Phytologist Foundation journal & Biological Diversity journal, & MDPI's Sustainability journal.

Nick belongs to Edge Hill University SustainNet, Community Owned Businesses Research Group, & LancsCAN.

Member of ServSIG, QUIS & ServCollab Service Research communities. 

As a member of Academy of Marketing Special Interest Groups Nick keeps up to date with cutting edge marketing research (Arts, Heritage, Non-Profit & Social Marketing; Place Marketing & Branding; Sustainability; Tourism Marketing; & Transformative Service Research).

Member of TRINET – Tourism Research Information Network, NTAN - Northern Tourism Academics Network & the Responsible Tourism Network.

Nick is also in partnership with Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI), Botanic Gardens Education Network (BGEN)  (personal member), PlantNetwork (institional member via EHU) & Liverpool Botanical Trust (personal member), & is an associate research partner for the Garden Tourism Alliance.

Module Leader and developer of various modules across our degree programmes and pathways. Nick has taught a number of subjects, including:

• Leisure, Travel & Tourism: Introduction to Leisure & Tourism, Leisure & Tourism Planning, Tourism Development, Green Tourism, Heritage, Events Management, Managing Impacts of Leisure & Tourism.

• Marketing: Marketing for Business, Integrated Marketing Communications, Branding & Integrated Digital Campaigns.

• Business & Management: New Venture Creation, Business-startup, Enterprise & Innovation, Human Resource Management, People & Organisations.