天美传媒

Head of the Graduate School of Business

I joined the 天美传媒 in 2013. During these eleven years I have taken a variety of positions including Portfolio Leader for the Undergraduate General Business Portfolio, Portfolio Leader for the Specialist Masters Suite, Faculty Postgraduate Coordinator, and more recently as the Acting Head of Department of Strategy and Management. Currently, I am the Head of the Graduate School of Business and I manage a highly distributed department that runs courses in Luton and numerous international partner sites.

I have experience teaching a diversity of units at a variety of HE levels. I have taught units in Strategy, Research Methods, and International Business and I have supervised at Undergraduate, MSc and PhD Level.

I am an internationally-minded educator with extensive exposure to three cultures, working environments, and academic traditions (British, Greek, and Japanese) with an interdisciplinary background and disposition (education in Biology, Politics and Business). My disciplinary focus is on qualitative research methods as well as leadership and strategy. I teach mostly on these two broad areas and I have experimented extensively using gamified learning systems in the classroom to enhance students鈥� engagement.

My current activities include: a) extensive and applied research in pedagogies of learning and teaching with an emphasis on authentic assessments and a focus on developing b) enterprise engagement activities throughout the school as a means to provide students with a career-powered education.

Other References

Qualifications

• PgCert Higher Education - 天美传媒 of Greenwich
• PhD in Organisational Studies 鈥� Manchester Metropolitan 天美传媒
• MRes 鈥� Manchester Metropolitan 天美传媒
• MBA 鈥� International 天美传媒 of Japan
• MSc in Technology and Innovation Management 鈥� 天美传媒 of Sussex
• BSc in Biology 鈥� 天美传媒 of Sussex

Teaching Expertise

• Research Methods
• Innovation Management
• Strategy
• Social Media Marketing

Research Interests

• Management Education
• Authentic Assessments
• Research Methodology
• EDI in the curriculum

Projects

• Going Global Partnerships, British Council, Co-Investigator, UK, November 2023 鈥� September 2024; 拢22,000: A Career Roadmap for Women鈥檚 Leadership in Higher Education in Ukraine
• Imagination Lab Foundation, Principal Investigator, Switzerland, September 2023- August 2024; 拢18,000: Comparing single and multi-modal training on EDI
• Chartered ABS Award, CABS, Co-Investigator, UK, February 2019 鈥� July 2020; 拢9.700 Embedding quality, diversity and inclusion in the business school teaching, learning and curriculum
• Catalyst Fund, HEFCE, Principal Investigator, UK, November 2016 (start) 鈥� April 2018; 拢32,000: Gamification Research Project (5 Academics from 2 Universities plus 3 Research Assistants): Gamified Learning Systems

Publications

• Schwabenland, C, Kofinas, AK, 鈥淥n ducks, elephants and sharks: Using LEGO庐 Serious Play庐 to surface the 鈥榟idden curriculum鈥� of equality, diversity and inclusion鈥�, Management Learning, 2023, 54/3, 318-337
• Kofinas, AK, Tsay, C; 鈥淚n Favour of Large Classes: A Social Networks Account鈥�, Journal of Management Education, 2021, 45/5, 760-785
• Win, S, Kofinas, AK; 鈥溾��, Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies, 2020, 11/1, 94-121
• Tsay, C, Kofinas, AK, Trivedi, S, Yang, Y; 鈥淥vercoming the Novelty Effect in Online Gamified Learning Systems: An Empirical Evaluation of Learner Engagement and Performance鈥�, Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2019, 36/2 128-146
• Win, S, Kofinas, AK; 鈥淩eflecting and Integrating the Contextual Influences of Ambiguities and Institutional Power in Organisational Research Design: A Case of Myanmar鈥�, Management and Organization Review, 2019, 15/2, 341-370
• Tsay, C, Kofinas, AK, & Luo, J. "Enhancing student learning experience with technology-mediated gamification: An empirical study", Computers & Education, 2018, 121, 1-17
• Williams, S, Kofinas, AK, Minnett-Smith C; 鈥淒eveloping live Projects as part of an assessment regime within a dispersed campus model鈥�, Journal of Pedagogic Development, 8/2, July 2018
• Kofinas, AK; 鈥淢anaging the sublime aesthetic when communicating an assessment regime: Burke鈥檚 pendulum鈥�, Management Learning, 2018, 49/2, 204-221
• Hussain, A, Kofinas, AK, Win, S; "Intention to Purchase Counterfeit Luxury Products: A Comparative 天美传媒 between Pakistani and British Consumers", Journal of International Consumer Marketing, 2017, 29/5, 331-346
• Kofinas, AK; 鈥淕amification of Research Methods: An Exploratory Case鈥�, Journal of Pedagogical Development, 5/4, November 2016
• MacPherson, A; Kofinas, AK, Jones O & Thorpe R; 鈥淢aking Sense of Mediated Learning鈥�, Management Learning, 41/3, 2010, 303-323
• Saur-Amaral, I & Kofinas, AK, 鈥淢ulti-disciplinary Collaborations in Pharmaceutical Innovation: Two case-studies Comparison鈥�, Business Chemistry, 2010, 7/3
• Kofinas, AK & Saur-Amaral, I; "25 years of Knowledge Creation Processes in Pharmaceutical Industry: Contemporary Trends", Comportamento Organizacional e Gest茫o (Organizational Behaviour and Management), Vol. 14/2, 2008
• Schwabenland, C, Kofinas, AK, 鈥淯sing Lego Serious Play to surface anxieties about embedding equality, diversity and inclusion in business schools鈥� curricula鈥�, Anderson, L, Black, K, Chaffer, C, 艢liwa, M, Webb, J, (Eds) BAM Compendium of Knowledge on Inclusive Learning and Teaching Practice in Business Schools, Edward Elgar, 2024
• Kofinas, AK, Win, S, 鈥淩eflections on the Ontological Mythologies of Creativity鈥�, D枚rfler, V, Stierand, M, (Eds) Handbook of Research Methods on Creativity, Edward Elgar, 2020
• Henderson, B, Kofinas, A, Clements, A, & Webb, Melanie; 鈥淲ardopoly: Game-based Experiential Learning in Nurse Education鈥�, James, A, Nerantzi, C, (Eds.) The Power of Play, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019
• Kofinas, AK, Al-Shawakbek, A & Lim, A; 鈥淐ritical Success Factors of Using Social Media as a Learning Tool in Higher Education鈥� In Benson, V., Saridakis, G. & Tuninga R. (Eds.) Analysing the Strategic Role of Social Networking in Firm Growth and Productivity, IGI Global, 2016
• Kofinas, AK; 鈥淚T-enabled Innovation in the Multinational Company鈥� In Salazar, A. and Sawyer, S. (Eds.) Handbook of Information Technology in Organizations and Electronic Markets, World Scientific Publishing, 2006

Contact Details

E: alexander.kofinas@beds.ac.uk