Prof Gerard Hodgkinson
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https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/gerard.hodgkinson.html Gerard P. Hodgkinson is Professor of Strategic Management and Behavioural Science at Alliance Manchester Business School. From September 2016-October 2017 he served as Deputy Head of the Business School and from 2017-2022 he was the Vice-Dean for Research for the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Manchester. He has held previous appointments at the Universities of Warwick (2011-2016), Leeds (1999-2011), Exeter (1998-1999), Leeds (1995-1998), Sheffield (1988-1995), and Manchester (1986-1988). In his most recent appointment, at the University of Warwick, he was Head of Warwick Business School's flagship Behavioural Science Group, one of the world’s leading academic units in its field. He also served on the Senior Management Team of Warwick Business School, as an Associate Dean, overseeing teaching quality across the School's full range of programmes. An elected Fellow of the British Academy of Management, British Psychological Society, and the Academy of Social Sciences, and an Academic Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, for eight years he was the Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Management (1999 - 2006) and for 12 years, with J. Kevin Ford (Department of Psychology, Michigan State University), he co-edited the International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (latterly incorporated into the Journal of Organizational Behavior as the Annual Review Issue). More recently, (2016-2020) he served as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Management and he currently serves on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Discoveries, Academy of Management Review, Futures and Foresight Science, Journal of Management, and Strategic Management Journal. From 2002-2006 Professor Hodgkinson was a member of the Grants Board of the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and has served two terms as a member of the Executive Committee of the Managerial and Organizational Cognition (MOC) Division of the (US) Academy of Management. From 2002-2005 he served as the MOC Division's International Representative at Large. In a five-year rotational term of office, he served as the MOC Division's Professional Development Workshop's Chair (2007-2008), Program Chair (2008-2009), Division Chair Elect (2009-2010), Division Chair (2010-2011) and Past Division Chair (2011-2012). From 2004-2007 his research was supported through the competitive award of a Senior Fellowship of the UK ESRC/EPSRC Advanced Institute of Management (AIM) Research. The (co-)author of more than 150 scholarly publications, an earlier version of his 2011 article with his Manchester-based colleague Dr Mark Healey, on the psychological foundations of strategic adaptation (dynamic capabilities), which was published in Strategic Management Journal, won the Business Policy and Strategy Division's Sumantra Ghoshal Research and Practice Award at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (Chicago, IL). In recognition of his sustained contributions to behavioural science and strategic management, in 2021 Professor Hodgkinson was awarded the Research Medal by the British Academy of Management. In recognition of his “exceptional contributions to understanding individual, relational, and collective cognition in organizational contexts,” in 2024 he was presented with the Distinguished Scholar Award by the MOC Division of the Academy of Management. Registered with the UK Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) as a Practitioner Occupational Psychologist, over the past 40 years he has carried out numerous consultancy assignments with public and private sector organizations.