Biography
Dr Kirsteen Grant is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA). Drawing on complementary backgrounds in organisational practice and academia, Kirsteen’s practitioner experience lies in leading and supporting complex organisational change and people management and development in large organisations. She has worked extensively in the areas of professional development, employee engagement, leadership, learning, and talent development/management.
In her current academic role, Kirsteen successfully programme leads a CIPD accredited MSc in Human Resource Management for a large commercial client. Kirsteen also teaches and examines across a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes delivered in Edinburgh and across the TNE portfolio (most often in Hong Kong and Singapore). Her academic role includes supervising student projects ranging from Honours dissertations to Masters and doctoral theses. Kirsteen also holds external examining roles and external board appointments. An active researcher, her research interests centre on areas of: responsible, professional and precarious work; (changing) nature and expectations of work; talent management; workplace skills utilisation; and high performance working. Kirsteen’s current research focuses on the airline industry and public service organisations.
Kirsteen’s Ph.D. (2013) comprised the theoretical development and empirical validation of a framework to explore the roles of five ‘high performance working’ typologies in enabling and supporting workplace skills utilisation. She has since developed a 'Performance through People' diagnostic and toolkit which is designed to enable practitioners to examine people performance within their own organisations.
Maintaining links between academia, industry and professional practice, Kirsteen is a member of CIPD Scotland's Knowledge into Practice (KIP) Steering Group and is KIP Lead for the South East Scotland branch of the CIPD. KIP brings together academics and practitioners to share knowledge and debate topics of common interest.