Principal Lecturer, Corporate Education

Location: Lord Ashcroft Building, 3rd floor, Cambridge

Email: vanessa.knowles@anglia.ac.uk

Vanessa Knowles is Principal Lecturer in Corporate Education & Work Based Learning at the Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAIBS). She is pathway leader for Barclays' BA (Hons) Management & Leadership (work based) degree and has 14 years of academic experience in the field of Corporate Education, designing and delivering a range of programmes that span both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Prior to joining LAIBS in September 2007 she was an Early Career Development Advisor at Rolls-Royce plc, with responsibility for the Engineering Graduate Leadership Development Programme.

Her research interests are in the area of Career Management & Development, specifically focused on undergraduates. She has won three national awards for her published research work, namely;

• 2003 - MCB Awards for Excellence - Most Outstanding Paper - Mentoring in Undergraduate Business Management Programmes, Journal of European Industrial Training in 2003
• 2000 - MCB Awards for Excellence - Highly Commended Paper - Graduate Recruitment & Selection Practices in Small Businesses, Career Development International Journal in 2000
• 1999 - MCB Awards for Excellence - Most Outstanding Paper - The Changing Nature of Graduate Careers, Career Development International Journal in 1999