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Siân Savage

Postgraduate Research Student
Essex Business School
Governance Officer
Office of the Vice-Chancellor - Corporate Governance
 Siân Savage

Profile

Ask me about
  • Corporate Governance Committees, Advisory Groups to the University Steering Group and committees of the University's subsidiary companies

Biography

I am a Governance Officer working in the Office of the Vice Chancellor (secondment). I began working at the University of Essex in 2009 as an Administrator for the Centre of Theoretical Studies, then as MBA Administrator and Postgraduate Administrator in Essex Business School from 2011. I am also a part-time PhD Student in Management in Essex Business School.

Qualifications

  • BA (Hons) Business Studies (Hospitality Management) Anglia Polytechnic University (1998)

  • MA Management and Organisational Dynamics University of Essex (2021)

Research and professional activities

Thesis

A Participation Action Research study of the Neighbourhood Planning process in the UK from a poststructuralist perspective

A Participation Action Research study of the Neighbourhood Planning process in the UK, identifying its limits and possibilities as a collaborative and empowering community project. The project will be approached from a poststructuralist perspective and it will consider themes of hegemony, discourse, subjectivity, and Diverse Economies theory.

Supervisor: Dr Rebecca Warren and Dr Georgios Kokkinidis

Contact

ssavage@essex.ac.uk
+44 (0) 1206 874573

Location:

EBS.2.26, Colchester Campus