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Professor Tracy Scurry

Professor of Work and Employment

Background

Dr Tracy Scurry is a Professor of Work and Employment, in the Leadership, Work and Organisation Subject Group. She is an Academic Fellow of the CIPD (AFCIPD).


Current Roles and Responsibilities

 

  • Joint Head of Leadership, Work and Organisation Subject Group (August 2024 - September 2025)
  • Leadership, Work and Organisation Subject Leadership Team - Learning, Teaching and Student Experience Lead (2022 - 2025 ) 

 

Previous Roles and Responsibilities

  • Associate Dean Learning and Teaching Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) Faculty (2017 - 2021)
  • HaSS Faculty Representative on UNSDGs subcommittee of Executive Board - Co-lead for Education Strand (2019 -2024)
  • Academic representative University Reward Forum (2019 -2021)
  • ONEPlanet Research Fund Reviewer (2019 - 2021)
  • Deputy Chair HaSS Faculty Education Committee (2017-2021)
  • Chair of INTO Newcastle University Academic Board of Studies (2017 - 2021)
  • Chair of the Regulations Working Group for Taught Programmes Sub- Committee (2020 -2021)
  • Deputy Chair of and HaSS Faculty Representative on the University Taught Programme Sub-Committee of UEC (2018 -2021)
  • HaSS Faculty Representative on the University Technology Enhanced Subcommittee of UEC (2018-2021)
  • Invited member of the following University Education Committee Task and Finish groups: Review of the Academic Year; Online Student Induction; Personal Extenuating Circumstances Regulations Review (2018 -2020)
  • University Real Living Wage Task and Finish Group (2018 -2021)
  • Deputy Subject Group Head, (Leadership, Work and Organisation) 2013 -2016
  • Chair of the Board of Studies (Leadership, Work and Organisation) 2013- 2016
  • HASS Faculty representative for the University Standing Committee on Collaborative Provision 

 

External Roles

 

2022 - ongoing    Network Convenor for the Society for Research in Higher Education Employability, Enterprise and Workbased Learning Network

2022 - ongoing    Member of the QAA Advisory group for the 2022 review of the Business and Management Subject Benchmark Statement 

2020 - ongoing    AGCAS Research and Knowledge Committee Member

2019 - ongoing    Chartered Association of Business Schools CMBE Professional Standards Board Member

2019 - ongoing    QAA Institutional and Subject specialist reviewer (Business Management) 

2012 - 2013         Advisory group member for BIS funded Graduate Success Project AGCAS/AGR  

2011 - 2012         Panel member for the OUVS Revalidation of MA Management with Pathways at Regent's  College

 

Research Esteem Indicators


Awards


Emerald Literati Award 2022 – Outstanding Reviewer for Career Development International.


Editorial responsibilities

 

2020 - 2021 Special Issue Co-Editor with Dr Sue Kirk (Newcastle) and Dr Liza Howe-Walsh (Portsmouth), Journal of Organisational Effectiveness, People and Performance, ‘Reimagining

Global Talent Management? Considering the implications of context for research and practice’. Special issue available here:

https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/2051-6614/vol/8/iss/4

2013 - ongoing    Editorial Advisory Board Member, Personnel Review

2008 - 2013         Book Reviews Editor, Personnel Review

 

Invited keynote presentations and seminars


2022             February - Invited research seminar at Pearson University London 

2019            July – Invited Keynote at the AGCAS Research Conference

2014             Invited research seminar at Centre for Lifelong Learning, Warwick University, 21 May 2014

2014             Invited research seminar at Grenoble University, April 2014

 

 

External Examiner appointments

2014 - 2018 Centre for Lifelong Learning, Warwick University, UK: MA/PGD/PGC/PGA Career Education Information and Guidance in Higher Education MA/PGD/PGC/PGA Career Development

and Coaching Studies

2014 - 2018 Warwick Business School, Warwick University, UK: Postgraduate Award in Career Development

 

International Doctoral Examinations

2014 - External examiner DBA: Grenoble Ecole de Management, France

2012 - External examiner PhD: Auckland University, New Zealand

 

UK Doctoral Examinations

2010 - External examiner DBA: Teesside University, UK

2019 - External examiner PhD: Northumbria University

2019 - External examiner PhD: Teesside University

2022 - Internal examiner PhD: Newcastle University

 

Bibliographic links

 

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=WFU-IVIAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tracy_Scurry

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1055-7702

Scopus Author ID: 16417822100

 

Teaching

Dr Tracy Scurry is Professor of Work and Employment at the Newcastle University Business School, where she is responsible for the strategic and academic leadership of learning, teaching and the student experience in the Leadership, Work and Organisation Subject Group. She has made significant, senior level contributions to management and leadership, most notably as Associate Dean Learning and Teaching for the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences where she was responsible for leading on several strategic priorities including student partnership working, students as researchers, technology enhanced learning (TEL), virtual mobility and supporting graduate outcomes. Her responsibilities have involved engagement in faculty and institutional level academic governance structures including roles in Learning and Teaching Reviews, Education Committee, Student Experience Committee, University Appeals Adjudicator and fitness for practice procedures.


Significant recent contributions in teaching and scholarship focus on the strategic leadership of academic practice and development. As Associate Dean she worked with students and colleagues across the institution to enhance student experience and championed an integrated approach to academic practice. Dr Scurry provided leadership and support across the HaSS Faculty for substantial curriculum review, new interdisciplinary provision and degree level apprenticeships.


Dr Scurry also has substantial experience of teaching in higher education and the delivery and design of a wide range of modules and programmes across the Business Management portfolio at Newcastle University Business School. Her experiences range from first year undergraduates to executive MBAs and PhD supervision, using both traditional teaching and supervision methods and innovative technology-enhanced learning approaches. She has experience of external professional and statutory recognition body accreditation processes having served as a panel member for school (EFMD Quality Improvement System –EQUIS; Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business - AACSB and Association of MBAs – AMBA) and programme accreditations (Chartered Institute of Personnel Development - CIPD). She is an Academic Fellow of the CIPD.


She has experience of overseeing, managing and delivering higher education provision in a range of positions within Newcastle University and has assessed academic quality and standards across the sector in a range of providers including universities, colleges and alternative providers as a QAA assessor and through external examining and external reviewer/advisory roles. She has conducted research for policy makers (BIS and the North East Local Economic Partnership) and acted as an expert for professional bodies (e.g. Association for Careers and Guidance Services). She has been a QAA reviewer since 2019. She was also a member of the QAA Advisory Panel for the review of the Subject Benchmark Statements for Business and Management.

She has a sustained commitment to CPD as a means to advance the quality of higher education. As a member of the Chartered Association of Business Schools Professional Standards Board, she has been responsible for ongoing review and evaluation of the Certified Business and Management Educator (CMBE) scheme.



Management and Leadership Roles in Learning and Teaching


2022 - 2025           Learning, teaching and student experience lead for LWO 

2019 - 2021          Associate Dean Learning and Teaching (Undergraduate) (HaSS Faculty)

2017 - 2019           Associate Dean for Learning and Teaching (HaSS Faculty)

2017 - 2021           Deputy Chair HaSS Faculty Education Committee

2017 - 2021           Chair of INTO Newcastle University Academic Board of Studies

2020 - 2021           Chair of the Regulations Working Group for Taught Programmes Sub- Committee

2018 - 2021          Deputy Chair of and HaSS Faculty Representative on the University Taught Programme Sub-Committee of UEC

2018 - 2021            HaSS Faculty Representative on the University Technology Enhanced Subcommittee of UEC

2018 - 2021          Invited member of the following University Education Committee Task and Finish groups: Review of the Academic Year; Online Student Induction; Personal Extenuating

Circumstances Regulations Review

2013 - 2016           Deputy Subject Group Head for Leadership, Work and Organisation (LWO)

2013 - 2016         Chair of the Board of Studies for Leadership, Work and Organisation (LWO) 

2011 - 2014         Degree Programme Director for Dual Masters AIBM/AIBMM with University of Groningen

2012 -2014           Chair of the Board of Examiners Dual Masters AIBM/AIBMM/OPS with University of Groningen

2009 - 2011          Dual Masters Programme development and approval

2008 - 2011          Degree Programme Director for the MA IBM


Current Teaching


Undergraduate


BUS1016 Academic and Professional Skill Development

BUS2040 HRM and the Future of Work

BUS3003 Advanced Business Practice

BUS3009 Management Research Briefing for Sustainable Organisational Futures


Postgraduate

NBS8286 People Management in the Global Context

 

 

Research

Research Interests

Current research embraces: graduate careers (notably graduates in ‘non-traditional’ graduate employment), identity narratives of global workers and career development programmes. Her work seeks to reframe understandings about graduate careers by demonstrating their multi-level and relational nature. She is interested in exploring how individual and societal factors interplay to influence outcomes, current research examines how imbalances and inequalities frame career experiences. She has an established track record of attracting research funding (British Academy, Department of Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) and N8) and engaging with non-academic stakeholders in a variety of forms (KTP and ESRC Seminar Series). She has conducted research for policy makers (BIS and the North East Local Economic Partnership), acted as an expert for professional bodies (e.g. Association for Careers and Guidance Services) and has worked with regional branches of the Chartered Institute for Personnel Development (CIPD) and the North East Chambers of Commerce (NECC) to engage members with research and organise events. 

She has also worked with a number of public sector organisations evaluating the processes and impact of organisational change related to the implementation of flexible working practices and work life balance initiatives. Work to date has adopted a multi-stakeholder perspective, examining both the organisational and individual implications of the practices for all those involved.

Keywords: careers, subjective careers, career success, graduate careers, career management, global careers, resilience, dual careers


External Research Funding

2024 -2025 National Health Innovation Partnership (NHIP) – Future Workforce Research Project CI (with Deb Harrison, Stephen Procter, Ana Lopes and Dave Lain). 

2018 -2019 Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) Scoping Award: Graduate Resilience: A review of the literature and future research agenda. With C. Burke (University of Derby) University).https://www.srhe.ac.uk/research/srhe_funded_projects.asp 

2017 -2018 Higher Education Careers Services Unit (HECSU): Developing Graduates' Career Resilience. With PI Ann Smart (Northumbria University Careers Service) Prof. J Blenkinsopp (Newcastle Business School) and Dr. C. Burke (Derby)

2014 – 2016 ESRC Knowledge Transfer Partnership Funding: Transformational Change at Benfield Motor Group – PI: Chris Hicks. CIs: T Scurry and T McGovern. Received outstanding rating and featured as an ESRC Impact Case Study: https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20210901102040/https://esrc.ukri.org/news-events-and-publications/impact-case-studies/lean-car-service-boosts-profits/ 

2013-2015 ESRC Seminar Series: 'Regulation of Work and Employment: Towards a multidisciplinary, multilevel framework' - PI: J Rodriguez, CIs: T. Scurry, S. Johnstone and S. Hughes (Newcastle), G. Bamber (Monash) and P. Stewart (Strathclyde) (Grant Ref: ES/L000660/1).

2012 -2013 Institute for Local Governance and Gateshead Council: Accelerating Implementation of Apprenticeship Priotities for Gateshead (With Dr John Blenkinsopp, Dr Ruth Helyer, Dr Paul Smith, Steven Pattinson).

2012 -2012   Department for Business Innovation and Skills :Graduate Recruitment to SMEs.(NUBS Principal Investigator) with Leigh Sear SFEDI , Dr Janine Swail NUBS, Professor Simon Down Anglia Ruskin and Stu Anderson NUBS. Report available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/graduate-recruitment-to-small-and-medium-sized-enterprises-smes 

2010 - 2012  British Academy Small Research Grant : What is a graduate job? Insights from undergraduate students of expected graduate employment outcomes (Principal Investigator. With Dr John Blenkinsopp)

2010 – 2010 Institute for Local Governance CA100: Securing the region’s future workforce requirements The Process of Recruiting, Training & Deploying Apprentices (With Dr John Blenkinsopp, Dr Jon Scott and Dr Roberts)


Internal Research Funding

2014 -2015 KITE Internship for NELEP Regional Skills Survey. 

2012 - 2013  NUBS Engaged Research Funding: Graduate development programmes in the public sector – changing notions of career success? (Principal Investigator)

2007 – 2008 Faculty Research Grant : 'An exploration of the influence of social class on career expectations and aspirations' (with Dr Yvette Taylor - GPS)

2006 – 2007 HASS Faculty Futures Programme Grant: 'Intersections, divisions and distinctions: an exploration of students’ experiences within Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS), Newcastle University' (with Dr. Bernadette Buckley and Dr. Yvette Taylor)


Activities, events and wider engagement since 2015

 

2025 June - Keynote panel speaker at the Institute for Student Employers

2025 June - Practitioner workshop at AGCAS with Kate Daubney

2021                     June – Practitioner workshop at AGCAS with Gayle Leach (Newcastle University Careers Service).

2021                      June - Invited to act as a judge for the Target Connect National Graduate Recruitment Awards - Employer Social Mobility Award

2021                      Invited to deliver a seminar at the Career Development Institute Practitioner Research Conference.

2020                      Member of AGCAS Alternative Conference Committee

2020                      January - Invited to act as a judge for the annual AGCAS Excellence Awards

2019                      July - Invited keynote presentation at the AGCAS Research Conference for Careers and Employability Professionals

2019                      June - Co-delivered workshop on Low Carbon Careers with Virgin Money and Professor John Blenkinsopp at the People Power event Northumbria University      

2019                     June - Delivered workshop for North East careers and employability professionals at Northumbria University based on joint HECSU funded career resilience research project         

2018                      September - Delivered practitioner workshop at AGCAS Conference with A. Smart (Northumbria)

2017                      April - Invited presentation on Graduate Retention and Attraction in the North East at the CIPD North East Regional Conference.

2016                      Development of CIPD Regional Skills Panel event 23rd February 2016 with Sarah Carnegie and NELEP.

2015                      Designed and implemented a Regional Skills Survey with the NELEP, NECC and FSB.


Publications