Tony Wall

After winning competitive scholarships to study in Toronto, Warwick Business School, and Lancaster University Management School, Professor Wall worked as an innovation, creativity and business growth consultant with technology corporates and entrepreneurs. Supported by major European regional development funds, this work collaborated with researchers at the Revans Institute for Action Learning (now at Manchester Business School), and examined creativity and business growth networks with 1000s of actual or aspiring entrepreneurs.

He then took academic leadership of a £5mn portfolio across 20 subject areas in addition to the development of a regional-level innovation in flexible professional learning and executive education. This work attracted competitive funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England. Since then, his academic leadership and innovative approaches to collaborating in interdisciplinary teams and networks across the globe have attracted or contributed to multiple major European projects worth over €830k and have reached Australia, the US, France, Spain, Estonia, Lithuania, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and so on.

Professor Wall then moved to the University of Chester to establish and take academic leadership of the International Centre for Thriving, a global scale collaboration between business, education, arts, and health. Here, he has strategic oversight of the impact-oriented projects and programmes, corporate consultancies, and institutional leadership for the global Intra-University Research Programme for Sustainable Development and the European School of Sustainability Science Research. He has led or contributed to projects worth over £2.7mn, and is developing pipeline projects worth over £2.9mn with partners.

Collaborating with a global network of colleagues in Stanford, Massachusetts, Melbourne, and Stockholm, Professor Wall has published 200+ works, including in quartile 1 journals such as The International Journal of Human Resource Management, Journal of Cleaner Production, and Vocations & Learning, as well as global policy reports for the European Mentoring & Coaching Council in Brussels and Lapidus International. In addition to being the Deputy Editor for the largest Encyclopaedia for Sustainable Development in the world, he is invited to review for quartile 1 journals including Academy of Management Learning & Education, Academy of Management Perspectives, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Plos One.

Overall, his leadership and international impact in these areas have attracted numerous accolades including the prestigious Advance-HE National Teaching Fellowship (awarded to less than 0.2% of the sector), Literati Outstanding Paper and Reviewer Awards, and multiple Santander International Research Excellence Awards. He continues to work closely with professional bodies and organisations internationally in consultancy and advisory roles to develop thriving work places and spaces. Past clients have included the Bank of America, Standard Chartered Bank, Lloyds TSB Bank, BT, TalkTalk, Chinese and American media groups, a Japanese logistics company, a South African University, The NHS, The Police, The RAF and Joint Forces HQ.

Teaching areas:

• Responsible leadership and management learning (e.g. strategy, strategic planning, leadership, strategic HR).
• Education for sustainability, resilience, wellbeing, and thriving (e.g. dissertation and thesis projects).
• Participatory and arts based methods in management education and research (e.g. action learning, social value and return on investment).

Published Work

• Blasco, M., Wall, T., et al (2021).
  The hidden curriculum of responsibility (un)learning at business schools, Management Learning. (Q1).
  
• Leal Filho, W., Wall, T., et al (2021)
  The impacts of the early outset of the COVID-19 pandemic on climate change research: Implications for policy-making, Environmental Science & Policy.
• Leal, W., Wall, T., et al (2021).
  Impacts of COVID-19 and social isolation on academic staff and students at universities: A cross-sectional study. BMC Public Health, forthcoming. (Q1).
• Filho, W., Wall, T., et al (2021)
  Trends in Scientific Publishing on Sustainability in Higher Education, Journal of Cleaner Production, early cite.
• Leal Filho, W, Price, E., Wall, T., et al (2021).
  COVID-19: the impact of a global crisis on sustainable development teaching, Environment, Development and Sustainability.
• Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Wall, T. et al. (2021)
  COVID-19: the impact of a global crisis on sustainable development research. Sustainability Science, 16, pp 85–99.
  
• Stokes, P., Smith, S., Wall, T., et al. (2019).
  Resilience and the (Micro-)Dynamics of Organizational Ambidexterity: Implications for Strategic HRM. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 30 (8), pp 1287-1322. (Q1, REF21 externally rated as 3*).
• Leal Filho, W., Wall, T. et al (2019).
  The integration of social responsibility and sustainability in practice: exploring attitudes and practices in Higher Education Institutions, Journal of Cleaner Production, 220, pp. 152-166. (Q1).
• Leal Filho, W., Wall, T. et al (2019)
  The role of higher education institutions in sustainability initiatives at the local level, Journal of Cleaner Production, 233, pp. 1004-1015. (Q1).
• Tran, L. T. & Wall, T. (2019).
  Ubuntu in adult vocational education: Theoretical discussion and implications for teaching international students, International Review of Education, 65, pp. 557–578. (REF21 externally rated as 3*).
• Wall, T., Tran, L.T. & Soejatminah, S. (2017).
  Inequalities and agencies in workplace learning experiences, Vocations and Learning, 10 (2), pp 141–156. (REF21 externally rated as 3*).

Inter/national policy reports

• Wall, T. (2021)
  A Creative Recovery: A National Study into Creative Writing for Wellbeing under COVID-19, Bristol, Lapidus International.
• Wall, T. and Axtell, R. et al (2020)
  Creative Practices for Wellbeing - Practice Guidance. Bristol, Lapidus International. Translated into 20 languages.
• Wall, T., Csigás, Z., et al (2018) 
  Research Policy and Practice Provocations – Coaching Ethics, Brussels, the European Mentoring and Coaching Council.
• Wall, T., Csigás, Z., et al (2017) 
  Research Policy and Practice Provocations – Coaching Evaluation in Diverse Landscapes of Practice, Brussels, the European Mentoring and Coaching Council.
• Wall, T., Iordanou, I., Hawley, R. and Csigás, Z. (2016)
  Research Policy and Practice Provocations – Towards Research that Sparks and Connects, Brussels, the European Mentoring and Coaching Council.
• Wall, T. & Jarvis, M. (2015). 
  Business schools as educational provocateurs of productivity via interrelated landscapes of practice, London, Chartered Association of Business Schools.
• Shaw, J. and Wall, T. (2010) 
  Quality assurance, enhancement and risk management in employer engagement – bitesize demonstrator project, in Tallantyre, F., Kettle, J. and Smith, J. (2010) Quality and responding to employer needs, York, Higher Education Academy.

Recent highlights include:

• Dyer, S., Hurd, F., Shankaran, S., Wall, T. et al, (2021)
  The power of collective storytelling: Unmasking restorative spaces, self-care and wellbeing, 37th European Group on Organization Studies Colloquium, 8-10 July.
• Callahan, J.L., Blasco, M., Robinson, S., Wall, T., Padan, T., Elliott, C.J., Bergmann, R. & Kjaergaard, A. (2020)
  Making visible the invisible: Moving micro activism from the shadows to embodied practice, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Vancouver. Submitted.
• Wall, T., Robinson, S., Elliott, C., Blasco, M., Kjærgaard, A., Callahan, J., Padan, T., & Bergmann, R. (2020).
  Revisiting collaborative writing: Experimenting with collective authoring as method, Qualitative Research in Management and Organization Conference, April 7 - 9, Albuquerque, New Mexico, US.
• Wall, T., Robinson, S., Elliott, C., Blasco, M., Kjærgaard, A., Callahan, J., Padan, T., & Bergmann, R. (2020).
  Micro activism as restorative space: enacting and experimenting with alternative ways to repair academia, Standing Conference on Organisational Symbolism, Copenhagen Business School Denmark, 6-9 July.
• Wall, T., Evans, V., & Hindley, A. (2020).
  Playful ambiguity for adaptive capacity, In Research in Management Learning and Education (RMLE) Unconference Proceedings. University of Christchurch, New Zealand.
• Chabernet, D., Lichy, J. & Wall, T. (2019).
  Insurrection as Recognition: Urban Riots for Love, Rights, and Solidarity. In British Academy of Management Conference Proceedings (September, Aston University). London, United Kingdom: British Academy of Management.
• Cregan, K., Wall, T., Evans, V., Marshall, J. & Hindley, A. (2019).
  Organisational resilience of business schools: exploring the possibilities of adaptation. In Research in Management Learning and Education (RMLE) Unconference proceedings (p. 31). Dubrovnik, Croatia: Research in Management Learning and Education (RMLE).
• Evans, V. & Wall, T. (2019).
  An emerging challenge: The development of entrepreneurial resilience for independent self-employment. In Research in Management Learning and Education (RMLE) Unconference Proceedings (p. 61). Dubrovnik, Croatia: Research in Management Learning and Education (RMLE).
• Wall, T., Hindley, A., Mburayi, L., Cregan, K., & Evans, V. (2019).
  Integrating sustainability in business schools: The possibility of harmonic response across heterogenic landscapes? In Research in Management Learning and Education (RMLE) Unconference Proceedings (pp. 21-22). Dubrovnik, Croatia: Research in Management Learning and Education (RMLE).