Biography
Dr Jackie Brodie joined Edinburgh Napier Business School in January 2005 and is the Business School's Associate Dean of Learning and Teaching and an Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. In 2019 she was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship, in 2020 she co-led a winning Advance HE Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence. Jackie is a Senior Fellow of the HEA, an International National Teaching Fellow and a Chartered Association of Business School’s Certified Management and Business Educator. Since 2021, she has been serving on the Advance HE’s UK Teaching Excellence Awards Panel and on the Nominations and Representative committee for Entrepreneurship Educators UK (EEUK). Jackie is passionate about innovation in student learning in HE and was a founding member of the Charity Board initiative steering group with RSM and Santander, which trained students to take up board positions on local charities.
Jackie has led several funded Learning, Teaching and Assessment research projects, such as the QAA Enhancement theme project “Extension of a Dissertation e-Toolkit for International Students”, which built on findings from the HEA funded evaluation “Exploring the Maze: An Evaluation of a Dissertation e-Toolkit Designed for Direct Entry Students Transitioning to HE”. Jackie’s newest collaborative research project with Dr Christine Haddow, funded by the Spencer Foundation, seeks to examine student belonging in Scotland during a cost-of-living crisis. Jackie has published and presented her Entrepreneurship education and Learning and Teaching research both internationally and in the UK. Most recently her work was presented in December 2024 at the International National Teaching Fellow’s Annual Symposathon on the topic of ‘Kindness in the Curriculum’ outlining the findings of a project she has worked on with collaborators based at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Glasgow.
Jackie is a reviewer for several Journals and has served as a Journal board editor. At Edinburgh Napier University she is the programme leader for the large online MSc Business Management Suite of Programmes and module leader for an online module Managing Innovation taught to MBA and MSc students. Jackie also supervises PhD and DBA students within the Business School and has 13 doctoral completions. An extract from her PhD, looking at the Design and Adoption of Mobile Technology by Mobile Workers, was published by Springer as a book chapter in Mobile Virtual Work: A New Paradigm.