Education: BSc (Mathematics, Sussex), MSc (Operational Research), D.Phil (Strategic Decision Making, Sussex) FBAM, AcSS
Known worldwide as an expert in collaborative working, Chris Huxham is regularly called upon to share her expertise with practitioners and academics alike, at seminars and conferences across the globe. For more than 20 years, Chris's award winning research has focussed on developing a practical understanding of how to manage collaborative ventures between organizations, such as partnerships, alliances and networks, in order to achieve collaborative advantage. She has been active in developing action research as a rigorous research methodology, so the theoretical insight that she has developed is both derived from, and informs, her interventions in organizations. In the course of her research she has worked as a facilitator, sounding board and advisor to policy makers, managers and participants in many, varied collaborative situations involving the public, community and commercial sectors.
Chris is President of the British Academy of Management. She is a Senior Fellow of the Advanced Institute of Management Research, a Fellow of the British Academy of Management and an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences. She teaches in the areas of Management and Strategy and Managing Partnerships and Alliances. Chris joined the University of Strathclyde's Department of Management Science in 1984 and moved to the former Graduate Business School in 1996. She is the first Head of the new Department of Management. Her early career (1979-1984) was as a lecturer in the University of Aston Management Centre.
