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Staff Profile

Dr Angela Mazzetti

Senior Lecturer in Management Practice & Degree Programme Director for the N200 Programme

Background

Overview

I have been working in the education sector since 1996. Throughout my career I have worked with a wide range of students and I am passionate about motivating students to achieve their full potential both during their time at university and in their future careers. During my time in the education sector, I have led a number of funded projects and initiatives related to curriculum design, development and enhancement.  


Newcastle University Business School

I joined Newcastle University Business School in June 2019 as a Senior Lecturer in Management Practice. I am the Degree Programme Director for the N200 BA (Hons) Business Management programme. I also teach on a number of undergraduate and postgraduate modules. I bring my extensive knowledge and experience into the curriculum to facilitate a better student understanding of management research, theory and practice. 


Prior Work Experience in the Higher Education Sector

Prior to joining Newcastle University Business School, I was a Senior Lecturer in Management and Leadership at Northumbria University where I led the MBA suite of programmes. Before moving to the Newcastle area, I worked at Teesside University for twelve years. During my time at Teesside, I held a range of senior roles including programme lead for the CIPD accredited MA HRM programme and the programme director role for the MBA suite of programmes. During my time at Teesside, I also led on a range of teaching and learning initiatives, widening participation projects, transnational education projects, and student experience initiatives. 


Prior Work Experience in the Further Education Sector

Prior to joining the higher education sector, I held a number of senior management roles within the further education sector. I led on a number of strategic curriculum development and quality enhancement. projects which required significant multi-disciplinary partnership working and transformational leadership. 


Prior Work Experience in the Utilities Sector

Before joining the education sector, I worked in the utilities sector and held a number of senior project quality roles. 


Recognition for Teaching and Curriculum Leadership

I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Chartered Association of Business Schools Certified Management & Business Educator. 


Reviewer Roles

I am a reviewer for the following journals:

The Journal of Higher Education: Skills and Work-Based Learning

The Journal of Organizational Ethnography

The Irish Journal of Anthropology

The Journal of Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management


Professional Memberships

I am a member of the following professional membership organisations:

The Academy of Management

The British Academy of Management

The Irish Academy of Management

The European Group for Organizational Studies

The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland

The European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction

European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology 


Qualifications

BA (Hons) Anthropology, Queen's University Belfast

PGCE, Open University, UK

TESOL, Trinity College London, UK

MSc Total Quality Management, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

PhD Anthropology, Queen's University Belfast


About Me

I am a keen gardener and spend any free time tending to my plants in my small raised bed garden.

I love swimming (although I am not that great) and managed to achieve my bucket list dream of swimming in Lake Geneva / Lac Léman.

I am an animal lover and have been a vegetarian for 45+ years.

I am a SUPER fan of 1970s and 19080s fashions.

I enjoy painting and photography.

I am a registered carer.


Research


Emotion, Stress and Coping Research: A 'Personal Ecology' Perspective

The focus of my academic research is emotion, stress and coping. I am interested in how our 'personal ecology' influences what we consider to be stressful and the coping strategies and behaviours we adopt to deal with stressful conditions. I define personal ecology as the unique embeddedness of embodied individuals in dynamic socio-cultural and multi-sensorial environments that shift and evolve over time. This relational process comprises personal, environmental, and temporal dimensions. Personal factors include an individual’s sense of well-being and self-worth, and their access to resources in pursuit of salient aspirations and goals. Environmental factors include people’s social networks and wider social, cultural, economic, and political factors. Temporal aspects of the relationship between an individual and their environment are also explored, as interrelated personal and environmental dynamics shift and evolve over time. 


Through my academic research, I have explored themes such as adaptation and resilience; trauma, coping resources and reserves; recourse to intervention strategies; how stress is conceptualised and discussed; readiness and resistance to change; the long-term impact of career disruptions; and how stressful encounters are remembered and narrated. Publications related to this research can be found under 'Publications'.


Research Supervisions

I have supervised many undergraduate and postgraduate research students on a range of people management and organisational behaviour topics. 


UK Doctoral Examinations

2022: Internal Examiner PhD Newcastle University


Scholarly Research

My teaching practice is informed by my scholarly research which falls broadly into two main strands: a scholarly ecology perspective and contextual ethics. These are explored in more detail in the 'Teaching' section.


Scholarly Research Funding

I have secured internal and external funding to conduct a range of scholarly research projects. These are explored in more detail in the 'Teaching' section.


  

Teaching

My Teaching

I teach across a range of HRM, research methods, and skills development modules at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. 


Undergraduate Modules

I deliver on the following undergraduate modules:

BUS2040: Human Resource Management and the Future of Work

BUS2018: Research Methods

BUS3079: The Responsible Management Practitioner


Postgraduate Modules

I deliver on the following postgraduate modules:

NBS8646: Management Inquiry and Analysis

NBS8651: Managing in Extreme Contexts


Recognition for Teaching and Curriculum Leadership

I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Chartered Association of Business Schools Certified Management & Business Educator. 


Teaching Nominations and Awards

I have been nominated for The Education Awards (TEAs) on three occasions. The TEAs is an annual event organised by Newcastle University Students’ Union (NUSU) that gives students the opportunity to nominate members of University staff who they believe have had a significant impact on their academic experience.


Scholarly Research

My teaching practice is informed by my scholarly research which falls broadly into two main strands: a scholarly ecology perspective and contextual ethics. These are explored in more detail below. Publications related to this research can be found under 'Publications'.


Scholarly Research: A 'Scholarly Ecology' Perspective

This stream of my scholarly research focuses on the concept of a 'scholarly ecology' which I define as the personal, temporal, and environmental factors that impact how individuals engage with scholarship and the process through which they develop a scholarly identity. Through my research I have explored themes such as how undergraduate students engage with research; how educators conceptualise student engagement with research; and the transition from further education to higher education.


Scholarly Research: Contextual Ethics

This stream of my scholarly research focuses on the concept of 'contextual ethics' which I define as the additional ethical decisions that need to be considered when undertaking research in sensitive, extreme and transitional contexts. Through my research I have explored themes such as the emotional challenges of qualitative research; the inherent ethical challenges of ethnography; the positionality of the researcher; the use of drawings and photographs; the recording of interviews; and the limitations of engaging with home ethnography.


Scholarly Research Funding

I have secured internal and external funding to conduct a range of scholarly research projects. These are summarised below.


Internal Research Funding

2019: Newcastle University Learning and Teaching funding to explore how educators impact UG student perceptions of final year research projects.

2022: Newcastle University Digital Innovation funding to develop a set of digital resources exploring UG student perspectives on maximising the final year research project.


External Research Funding

2007: Teesside University Lifelong Learning funding to develop a best practice toolkit for widening participation activities.

2008: Durham County Council funding to develop a 'new manager' programme for curriculum managers and teachers.

2008: North East Higher Skills Network funding to explore progression pathways from FE to HE.

2009: Association of Colleges funding to develop a transition toolkit for FE colleges.




Publications