Peter Bryant

Peter is an experienced academic with thirty years teaching and research experience in both the UK and Australia, in the areas of higher education and business school strategy, educational innovation and creative industries management.

He has worked as an academic and educational leader in several leading UK and Australian institutions prior to joining the University of Sydney Business School, including the London School of Economics and Political Science, the University of Greenwich and Middlesex University. He holds a Bachelor of Business in Marketing, a Masters of Adult Education and PhD in Management from the University of Technology, Sydney.

Peter is the Co-Director of the Disruptive Innovations in Business Education Research Group. This active and transformative group seeks to better understand the futures of business education in a post-pandemic world and the role of business education is educating leaders for good. He is an active researcher and speaker on educational innovation, learning and teaching spaces, learning technology, the future of Business School education and student co-design.

Peter is a Trustee of the Association for Learning Technology, which supports the professional and policy development of staff using educational technology. He is the Chair of the Editorial Board for the peer reviewed open access journal Research in Learning Technology.

Research interests

Peter's pedagogic research interests include digital identity and social media, the influences and impacts of digital pedagogies, the relationship between learning spaces, design and pedagogy, and institutional resistance to technology within the higher education, more specifically business education spaces. Peter is also leading research on engaging with and delivering strategic pedagogical change in Business Schools.

Peter is currently working on three research projects:

• A comprehensive review of the theories of connected learning and their deployment in Business Schools at scale to develop leaders for good;
• The interrogation of students notions of flexibility and the dissonance of expectations through the use of student co-design and digital storytelling;
• The use of transitional spaces to create more resonant approaches to learning business within transactional environments.

Outside of business education, Peter has published research in community and third sector governance and the uses of community and public media for the promotion of arts and network formation processes amongst arts practitioners. Most recently, his work has focused on the motivations for participation in DIY and making in the creative industries exploring notions of post-digital aesthetics, community development and the transformative and disruptive influences of technology on identity, making and participation. Peter is an experienced qualitative researcher, with an expertise in grounded theory and other constructivist methodologies.

Teaching and supervision

I have designed and delivered the units of study in the Leading in a Post-Crisis World program.

The aim of the program was to make manifest the University mantra of Leadership for Good by bringing together an interconnected series of extra and intra-curricular experiences deeply rooted in the critical skills required to support students to reflect on the impacts that the pandemic was having on them personally, their communities and their ambitions post-study. Building on those leadership capabilities and narratives, the program made students part of a dynamic and aspirational movement for personal and global change, empowering them to find solutions for the most wicked challenges created by crisis. As a collective whole, the LPC program had the ambition to support students to apply transdisciplinary knowledge to understand the liminality of crisis, to both navigate and lead others through the rites of passage it triggers.

• Succeeding in a post-crisis world
• Managing post-crisis through action research
• Leading in a post-crisis world

Awards and honours

• Wharton-QS Stars Reimagine Education Awards - Overall Gold Award and Hybrid Learning Award 2016
• Association for Learning Technology, Team of the Year 2016
• Corporate Vision Award for Innovation in Learning Technology 2016
• Campus Technology Magazine Teaching and Learning Innovator 2016