Dr Shariq Sheikh
Senior Lecturer in Management
Glasgow School for Business and Society; GSBS Department of Management
Dr Shariq Sheikh has worked at the University since 2015 and is the Programme Leader for the Graduate Apprenticeship in BA (Hons) Business Management. He has been instrumental in the design and delivery of this four-year work-based learning programme. Dr Sheikh is the GSBS PRME Lead and is responsible for supporting embedding sustainability in Business School curriculum, supporting students in teaching sustainability, carbon literacy and developing a sustainability mindset and global citizenship. He is also a coordinator of the UN PRME UK & Ireland chapter’s Scotland Local Network.
He has extensive experience in transnational education and has led modules in courses delivered at African Leadership College, Mauritius and Caledonian College of Engineering, Oman.
He holds a PhD in Management on the ‘Socialisation and Career Orientation of potential inheritors in Asian Family Businesses in Scotland’ awarded from the University of Edinburgh. He was awarded the prestigious Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Award for his Masters and PhD, and has been a recipient of the British Council’s Chevening Technology Enterprise Scholarship for commercialisation of technology research conducted at UK universities. In addition, he also holds a Bachelors Engineering degree in Electronics and Communication, a Postgraduate Diploma in Business and Entrepreneurship Management and a Research Master qualification in Management
He is currently researching in the areas of sustainability in Business School curriculum, carbon literacy, sustainability mindset and is collaborating with colleagues at the Business School in developing new pedagogy using ‘Engaged Scholarship’ approaches. Dr Sheikh also supervises student theses and is currently open to supervision of doctoral (PhD/ DBA) students.