Discover Keele Business School
Develop exceptional business skills and enhance your subject knowledge to help you develop in to one of the business leaders of tomorrow.
Spotlight on KBS staff
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"My most recent research has explored how change can be facilitated in local communities using creative methods of engagement to the benefit of the community as a whole and for the individuals residing in the area."
Read more about Dr Helen Millward
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"The value I add to KBS is by integrating the breadth of my real business experience with practical insights to ensure the content of the programme is suitable for practical implementation."
Read more about Annette Shipley, Entrepreneur in Residence
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"I take every opportunity to bring practice into the curriculum and bring theory into practice, teaching my students to be creatively confident problem solvers and providing opportunities for students to apply their theoretical learning in real company projects in a supportive environment. "
Read more about Dr Colin Rigby
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"I have extensive business and international management experience which I bring to my teaching, research and engagement activities. One particular activity of note is the cross-cultural and virtual teamworking exercise I deploy on my final year undergraduate module, Comparative Business Cultures."
Read more about Dr Paul Forrester
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"It is my engagement with organisations which underpins my lecturing at Keele Business School. Providing students with a rich insight into the theory of marketing, from a strategic to a tactical level."
Read more about Dr David Atkinson
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"Keele Business School students have secured placements in a variety of organisations including Nintendo, IBM, Office For National Statistics, Grant Thornton, JCB, Sainsburys, Bosch, and HMRC, with several securing graduate positions before embarking on their final year of study."
Read more about Sharon Farrow, Student Placement Officer
Research and enterprise
Research in Keele Business School is oriented towards engagement and change within and beyond the academy.
Accreditations, Memberships and Partnerships
We currently have partnerships with a number of professional bodies who offer a number of important exemptions from their professional exams.