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Dr Melissa Hawkins

Assistant Professor

School: Newcastle Business School

Melissa is an academic at 51's Business School, with research interests shaped by over twenty years of experience in education, including time spent as a teacher practitioner in schools. Her work centres on developing complexity-informed policy and practice through utilising action-oriented research methods. Melissa adopts an engaged scholarship approach to her role, actively linking research and knowledge exchange with teaching and learning activities.

Melissa Hawkins

  • Julie Aitken how action-orientated research (AOR) can be both scholarly and have impact Start Date: 01/10/2025
  • Julie Wooton Vulnerability Reimagined: Crisis, Complexity and the Normalisation of Change in a Local Health and Care System: A Theory-Driven Inquiry into Transformation in Oldham During the COVID-19 Response Start Date: 08/11/2024 End Date: 17/10/2025
  • Julie Aitken how action-orientated research (AOR) can be both scholarly and have impact Start Date: 01/10/2025 End Date: 17/10/2025
  • Julie Wooton Vulnerability Reimagined: Crisis, Complexity and the Normalisation of Change in a Local Health and Care System: A Theory-Driven Inquiry into Transformation in Oldham During the COVID-19 Response Start Date: 08/11/2024 End Date: 18/10/2025

  • Education PhD June 28 2023
  • Education MA December 13 2012
  • Education PGCE June 18 2003
  • Philosophy BA (Hons) July 07 2001
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy FHEA
  • Qualified Teacher Status QTS


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