Contact Details

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Position

Part-time Senior Research Associate
Part-time PhD Candidate

Affiliation

Judith Shawcross

Background

Judith Shawcross joined the Centre for Technology Management in June 2007 as a Senior Research Associate. Her role involves a mix of teaching, training and research related to transferable and business development skills - particularly those related to taking new technologies to market. Interests in education related to practical application in industry have resulted in Judith starting a part-time PhD in October 2010 to investigate why IfM’s educational programmes are considered successful and the forming of a new Manufacturing Industry Education Research Group (MIERG) with other IfM colleagues.

Before joining the Centre, she was the Course Director of the MSc in Science Entrepreneurship at Cass Business School. Prior to this appointment Judith worked at the Manchester Science Enterprise Centre developing and delivering innovative Enterprise programmes at both post graduate and undergraduate levels.

Judith also has 15 years industrial experience in a major UK science and engineering company where she held a variety of roles including Manufacturing Management, Engineering Design and Project Management, Strategic Corporate Planning, Business Development and Human Resources Training and Development. She has B.Eng. from Bristol University and an MBA from Manchester Business School.

Academic Interests

• Design, delivery and assessment of learning experiences to promote learning
• Skills for industry / business / enterprise
• Skills development
• Engineering Education
• Curriculum design and delivery
• Technology and Innovation Management

Publications

• Shawcross, J. (2010) Developing competences to take emerging technologies to market - an exploratory study. http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/ctm/publications/practitioners/
• Mortara, L., J. Shawcross, J.Mills, J.J.Napp and T Minshall (2009), Skills for open innovation. RADMA. Vienna
• Harrison, A., J. Banwell, M. Frost, W.J. Plumbridge, (1988), An Interactive Teaching Experiment in Materials, Journal of Computers and Education, Elsevier

(NB. Maiden name Banwell)