Lecturer-Student Collaboration as Responsible Management Education: Benefits and Challenges

Victoria Pagan; Ellie McGuigan

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Lecturer-Student Collaboration as Responsible Management Education: Benefits and Challenges

Victoria Pagan and Ellie McGuigan

Newcastle University Business School, UK

Volume 16: 2019 pp. 25-40: ABSTRACT

This article contributes to the conversation on the implementation of the Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME) by reflecting the authors’ specific experiences of being lecturer and student in delivering/engaging with the Principles. It gives voice to these roles, which is largely absent from the extant literature that instead focuses most frequently on macro-level, institutional motivation and programme development. The work provided outcomes that met institutional performance development requirements, teaching and research outputs. It provided an integrated learning and employment opportunity as an enhancement to the student’s degree. Yet despite these positives, as this article reveals, there is an uncomfortable sense of contradiction between the micro-practice of this teaching and learning experience, and the broader management pressures exerted by UK universities as institutions. The implication is that the possible systemic change that frameworks such as PRME may achieve is constrained by these contradictions.