Ross Jordan
MBA, PGCertHE, FHEA
Programme Lead Business & Management, Programme Lead Business, Enterprise, & Entrepreneurship, Academic Advisor for Senior Leader Apprenticeships
Oxford Brookes Business School
Role
Ross is Programme Lead for the Business & Management degree, and the Business, Enterprise, & Entrepreneurship degree. He is also Academic Advisor to our Senior Leader Apprentices.
Teaching and supervision
Courses
- Business and Management (BA (Hons))
- Oxford Brookes MBA (MBA)
- Business, Enterprise and Entrepreneurship (BA (Hons))
- International Business Management (BA (Hons))
Modules taught
- Entrepreneurial Business Management
- Business at the Cutting Edge
- Global Business Environment
- Live Client Strategic Project
I have taught on and developed numerous other modules including "Evaluating Options" which encapsulates my pedagogic research.
Supervision
I am Academic Advisor to 70+ Senior Leader Apprentices and support them in their capstone Consultancy Project.
Research
My PhD is in the area of creative destruction in pedagogy as a means to help students understand entrepreneurial risk.
Research impact
My research informs teaching practice particularly on the RN degree.
Publications
Professional information
Memberships of professional bodies
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Member of Institute of Safety and Health
Conferences
- Jordan, R. (2020) ‘Fostering the Entrepreneurial Mindset Across Oxford Brookes University’, Evolve Conference, 2020.
- Jordan, R., & Adderley, S. (2018) ‘“Everywhere you go, you always take the weather with you”. Creating the Gales. Can pedagogy of creative destruction in Entrepreneurship Education support students in creating opportunities? A critical realist perspective’, British Academy of Management Conference 2018.
- Jordan, R. (2016) ‘Hypothesis; A potential measure of success in Entrepreneurship Education is when students are ‘transformed’ to the extent that they rebel against Entrepreneurship Education’, Oxford Brookes Faculty International Research Conference 2016.
Consultancy
- Director of Oxfordshire Business First
- CEO and Founder of Brit Picks.
Further details
Ross is Programme Lead for the Business & Management degree, and the Business, Enterprise, & Entrepreneurship degree. He is also Academic Advisor to our Senior Leader Apprentices.
Ross brings to his teaching a wealth of industry experience gained from 20 years working in commercial property, retail, and the music industry.
With a disciplinary specialism in Entrepreneurship, he is part way through studying for a PhD.
In 2005 he was awarded an MBA.