About us – The Team!

We have set up this blog to take the discussion of our centre (CGLGR) further and to a wider audience and readership. Also to promote and encourage a healthy debate and discussion around the main topics and streams of our centre.

Our main objectives are to bring together leading research, teaching and consultancy which integrates theory and value in practice, working alongside corporate and public bodies. The blog reflects out passion for the subject and how much we would like to contribute to the whole debate of transparency responsibility and integrity in leadership and governance.

William Sun and I (Simon Robinson) along all the rest of our crew will be contributing and encouraging challenging conversation across all sectors, stimulating an ongoing public debate about the nature and practice of responsibility.

This blog is built on the same ethos and aims as our Centre for Governance, Leadership and Global Responsibility, which are to :

• Develop high quality research across corporate, public, professional and voluntary sectors, in partnership with those sectors, about the meaning, values and practice of responsibility in governance and leadership. This includes reporting of social responsibility.
• Research the relationship of responsibility to employability attributes and skills, and develop approaches to teaching which integrate the different aspects of responsibility.
• Work with the corporate, public, professional and voluntary sectors in staff development and consultancy, particularly around board development, and the development of cultures or responsibility.
• Promote ongoing dialogue between the different sectors about governance, leadership and responsibility.

Hope you find the reading enriching and also can contribute to the whole debate.

Best Regards,

Simon Robinson

Main Contributors:

Prof. SIMON ROBINSON

Educated at Oxford and Edinburgh Universities, Robinson was trained as a psychiatric social worker and as an Anglican priest. After chaplaincy, teaching and research posts at Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh University, and the University of Leeds, he joined Leeds Beckett University in 2004 as Professor of Applied and Professional Ethics. He has written and researched extensively in business ethics, corporate social responsibility, leadership, the nature and dynamics of responsibility, equality, integrity, shame and guilt, spirituality and ethics, and ethics and care.

Books include: Agape, Moral Meaning and Pastoral Counselling; Spirituality and the Practice of Healthcare; Values in Higher Education; Spirituality, Ethics and Care; Ethics and the Alcohol Industry; Leadership Responsibility; Business Ethics in Practice; Co-charismatic Leadership.

He is director of the Centre for Governance, Leadership and Global Responsibility.

Dr. William Sun

Dr Sun has published widely on the subjects of corporate governance, CSR, sustainability, company law and transition economics, with over 70 journal papers and more than 30 authored or edited books. He is editor of the well-received book series Critical Studies on Corporate Responsibility, Governance and Sustainability published by Emerald Group Publishing since 2010.

Selected Research:

ESG risk management project

Finance and sustainability programme

Corporate governance: an internal-external conceptual framework

Corporate governance and leadership

Andy Lima

Digital Strategist and Associate Lecturer working for the School of Strategy, Marketing and Communication at Leeds Beckett University both as a lecturer and business consultant.

Andy’s work is focused on the development of Enterprise and digital capabilities across different departments such as Enterprise Services and The Retail Institute working both for top UK and global companies as well as supporting SME growth in our region. He is a fellow of the Centre for Governance, Leadership and Global responsibility, and member of the steering team.

He has a BA in Business Enterprise and a Master in Marketing having started and manage several businesses of his own, now Andy is Lecturing to UG , PG and Executive MBA groups as well as distance learning MBA and to the CIM (Charter Institute of Marketing) courses. His core subjects are Digital Marketing, Social Media, Entrepreneurship, Business Start-up, Consumer Behaviour and Contemporary Marketing.  Currently undertaking PhD in Governance and Leadership.

Blog design and content management: Andy Lima (above)  and Becky Carlisle (Senior Research Administrator)