Job Title: Head of Team (Business) Pathway College
Email: dawn.mccartie@northumbria.ac.uk
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About Dr Dawn:
Dawn joined the Pathway College in August 2024 to take up the Head of Team (Business) post from a college running a TransNational Education (TNE) Partnership in Qatar with the University of Aberdeen. Previously she was a Senior Lecturer in Marketing and the Director of Undergraduate Studies at Newcastle University.
Dawn is an experienced academic with a track record in module and programme leadership across a range of Business and Marketing subjects, as well as Dissertation supervision at both Undergraduate and Postgraduate level and Personal Tutoring of students. In addition, Dawn has developed and initiated numerous Executive Education sessions across Qatar in a range of areas for middle to senior managers from various sectors, including topics on self-awareness; allyship; empowerment; imposter phenomenon; power in the workplace; emotional and cultural intelligence.
Dawn is passionate about teaching and enhancing student experience and her teaching philosophy places significant importance on her previous industry experience as Regional Marketing and Sales Managers within both Financial and Professional Service organisations along with a number of consultancy roles.
Dawn’s PhD is in Marketing, from Newcastle University Business School, and considers Brand Communities through the lens of Power, bringing together both marketing and sociological perspectives. Her viva was commended by the external examiners with only very minor corrections to make to the thesis.
In addition to her academic qualifications, Dawn is also Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) and has graduated from the Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS) Leaders in Teaching and Learning programme with other senior Learning and Teaching academics from across the UK. In addition to her Undergraduate and Postgraduate degrees, Dawn also holds a PgCE in Lecturing in Higher Education (LTHE).