School of Business

Yaqub Murray is a senior lecturer in Organisation Studies, Human Resources, Qualitative Methodology, Action Research, Postcolonial Studies and Globalisation Theory. He studied at the LSE and University of East London for a BSc (Hons) by Independent Study in Economic History and Personnel Management (gaining a First Class Honours). He completed the MA in Industrial Relations and HRM (Warwick), the MSc in Organisational Change and Development (Sheffield Hallam), and the postgraduate Diploma in Counselling from the Graduate School of Bristol University. He was awarded his MPhil in Educational Action Research from the University of Bath in 2008 for his thesis on Narcissistic Injury and Cosmopolitan Pedagogy.

Yaqub teaches organisation studies, management skills, human resources, ethical management and leadership, and qualitative approaches to methodology across the School's BSc and MBA/Masters programmes. He enjoys supervising dissertation students, especially first-person writing and narratives of ethnic, spiritual and professional identity.

He has presented papers on Postcolonial Theory, Identity and Critical Pedagogic practice at conferences of the American Educational Research Association (New Orleans), BERA (Manchester), and the Australian Indigenous Research Association in Adelaide (2008). He is co-authoring forthcoming papers with Dr Nceku Nyathi (Open University) on the life of Frantz Fanon as psychoanalyst, revolutionary and organisation theorist - Reinterpreting the Presence of the Absence of Frantz Fanon in Organisation Studies - and on African management learning - Ubuntu: What's this 'African Stuff' Got to Do with Organisation Studies?

Yaqub's research interests centre on the organisation and interpretation of personal and political meanings for the performance of identity. He is currently completing his PhD on the organisation of mixed race, Muslim and cosmopolitan identity in post-Iraq Britain.

His international consultancy projects include ethical leadership, equality and diversity, personal and organisation change, executive coaching and team performance for private and public sector organisations. Current clients include HMPS Ministry of Justice (UK) on the development of exemplified leadership practices in equality, diversity and inclusion. Yaqub has experience of cross-institution programme validation (UK/Oman), subject and programme external examining, and programme review of BA Business Studies programmes for the universities of East London and Wolverhampton. He was Chair of Swindon's Race Equality Council 2007-09.

He has been a speaker at international Higher Education forums on 'mixed race' identity (New Orleans), Life Writing and educational action research (University of Qatar), diversity and curriculum development (London Metropolitan), equalities and teaching practice in higher education (Universities of Brighton and Sussex), and Anger and Inclusion (Bath).

Yaqub likes trashy TV soaps, growing big potatoes on his allotment, reading the crime novels of the Swedish Marxists Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo, and going to Oman every December for biryani of the soul.