Kirsteen Grant
Kirsteen Grant

Dr Kirsteen Grant PhD, FCIPD, SFHEA, CMBE

Associate Professor

 0131 455 2367

  K.Grant@napier.ac.uk

   

Biography

Kirsteen is Associate Professor (Human Resource Management) at Edinburgh Napier University, UK. An active researcher, her interests encapsulate professional, responsible, and extreme work; future of work; younger workers; leadership; and talent management. Kirsteen is currently Associate Director (Development) at the Scottish Institute for Policing Research (SIPR), having previously served as Deputy Director of Research within Edinburgh Napier Business School. She also co-convenes the Work and Equalities in Society multidisciplinary Research Group within the University. In 2022, Kirsteen co-edited the Emerald Handbook of Work, Workplaces and Disruptive Issues in HRM. She has also led several successful grant applications and projects as Principal Investigator and regularly publishes her work in high quality peer-reviewed journals and professional/practitioner outlets. Kirsteen currently supervises three Ph.D. candidates (having already supervised three candidates to completion) and is keen to hear from anyone interested in undertaking doctoral study within her areas of interest.

Drawing on complementary backgrounds in academia and organisational practice, Kirsteen has a strong track record of leading and delivering taught, blended, and online programmes at undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral levels, both in the UK and overseas. Her former practitioner experience encompassed senior leadership roles geared around leading and supporting complex organisational change, and she has worked extensively in the areas of professional development, leadership, and learning and talent development. Kirsteen is well networked throughout the HRM community and her complementary experience in academia and practice enables her to lead and deliver a variety of executive education and commercial offerings.

Kirsteen is a former editor of the Journal of Management Development and currently serves on several editorial and advisory boards. She is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), and Certified Management and Business Educator (CMBE).

Kirsteen is passionate about knowledge transfer and helping to bridge the gap between academic research and professional practice. As an outcome of her PhD (2013), Kirsteen developed a 'Performance through People’ diagnostic and toolkit, which she often utilises when working with external partners and clients. The tool is designed around five work-related dimensions and acts as a conversational prime and framework to enable people to explore the alignment of the five dimensions within their own organisations. Kirsteen is happy to hear from anyone interested in learning more about the toolkit.

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Research Areas

Events

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Editorial Activity

  • Guest Edited Double Special Issue of The International Journal of Human Resource Management
  • Editorial Review Board, Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance
  • Editorial Review Board, Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources
  • Editorial Review and Advisory Boards, Journal of Management Development
  • Editor, Journal of Management Development

 

External Examining/Validations

  • External Examiner, Northumbria University
  • CIPD Accreditated Masters Programme and Module External Examiner, University of Lincoln

 

Fellowships and Awards

  • Top Cited Article Award
  • Certified Management and Business Educator (CMBE)
  • Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy
  • Finalist in CIPD National People Management Awards
  • Chartered Fellow, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development

 

Grant Funding Panel Member

  • Invited Member of Judging and Interview Panels for CIPD Mick Marchington ECR Research Grant Fellowships
  • Panel Member for SIPR International Travel Grant Scheme

 

Grant Reviewer

  • Grant Reviewer for CIPD Mick Marchington ECR Research Grant Fellowships
  • Grant Reviewer for Carnegie Trust - Research Incentive Grants
  • Grant Reviewer for Carnegie Trust - Vacation Scholarships

 

Invited Speaker

  • 'Performance through People' Workshop, CIPD Ayrshire Group
  • 'Knowledge into Practice' Seminar using own 'Performance through People' diagnostic/toolkit, CIPD Scotland
  • 'Performance through People' Seminar using own diagnostic/toolkit, European Organisation Design Forum
  • 'Performance through People' Workshops using own diagostic/toolkit, NHS Education for Scotland
  • 'High Performance Working and Skills Utilisation' Presentation, CIPD Scotland Future Talent Conference

 

Media Activity

  • Bringing Whole Self to Work

 

Non-executive Directorship

  • Board Member, Young Enterprise Lothian

 

Public/Community Engagement

  • 'Developing our Approach to Collaborative Talent Management in Scotland's Public Services' Workshop, Improvement Service

 

Visiting Positions

  • Research Dissemination/Exchange, George Brown College, Toronto

 

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The dark side of digitalization? A diary study of the impact of digital technologies on work intensification, work-life balance and wellbeing

Conference Proceeding
Grant, K., Venz, L., & Bottcher, K. (2020)
The dark side of digitalization? A diary study of the impact of digital technologies on work intensification, work-life balance and wellbeing
New and advancing technologies challenge the requirements and possibilities for work practices and the ways in which people carry out their roles. Modern technologies and digi...

Leadership in the public sector: A renewed call to action

Report
Grant, K., & Williams, R. (2019)
Leadership in the public sector: A renewed call to action. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Napier University
The UK public sector is facing unprecedented challenges, with a growing demand for leaders and leadership to improve the delivery of sustainable public services. This Reflecti...

L&D professionals in organisations: much ambition, unfilled promise

Journal Article
Garavan, T., Heneghan, S., O'Brien, F., Gubbins, C., Lai, Y., Carbery, R., …Grant, K. (2020)
L&D professionals in organisations: much ambition, unfilled promise. European Journal of Training and Development, 44(1), 1-86. https://doi.org/10.1108/EJTD-09-2019-0166
This monograph reports a study investigating the roles of learning and development (L&D) professionals in Irish, UK European and US organisations. The study investigates the c...

Work design in the 21st century: A case of back to the future or forward to the past?

Book Chapter
Holland, P., Grant, K., & Tham, T. L. (2019)
Work design in the 21st century: A case of back to the future or forward to the past?. In Contemporary HRM Issues in the 21st Century, (173-182). Bingley: Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78973-457-720191020
With the accelerated changes we have seen in the 21st century, in many cases driven by technology, the importance of how work is organised is central to the development of eff...

Room for improvement? A briefing report on leadership and management in the public sector. Findings from the 2018 Workforce Development Survey

Report
Parry, J., Grant, K., & Sheehan, M. (2019)
Room for improvement? A briefing report on leadership and management in the public sector. Findings from the 2018 Workforce Development Survey. The Workforce Development Trust
The research which underpins this briefing report was driven by a primary, quantitative Workforce Survey which focused on understanding the views of employers across the publi...

Commercial airline pilots’ declining professional standing and increasing precarious employment

Journal Article
Maxwell, G. A., & Grant, K. (2021)
Commercial airline pilots’ declining professional standing and increasing precarious employment. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 32(7), 1486-1508. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2018.1528473
With the advent of low cost employment systems for pilots in commercial airlines, we address two questions: What are experienced UK-based, commercial airline pilots’ perspecti...

Global Issues: The Technological Framework

Book Chapter
Bratton, J., & Grant, K. (2018)
Global Issues: The Technological Framework. In The International Business Environment (251-288). (Fourth edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press
No abstract available.

The shifting terrain of commercial aviation: Implications for HRM

Conference Proceeding
Grant, K., & Maxwell, G. (2018)
The shifting terrain of commercial aviation: Implications for HRM. In Conference Proceedings
Safety is of paramount importance in commercial aviation. Human factors account for up to 80% of aviation accidents and incidents. Commercial aviation is experiencing rapid gr...

Risky business: HRM implications from pilots' accounts of critical incidents in UK commercial Aviation

Presentation / Conference
Grant, K., & Maxwell, G. (2018, June)
Risky business: HRM implications from pilots' accounts of critical incidents in UK commercial Aviation. Paper presented at International Human Resource Management Conference
Safety is of paramount importance in aviation in first-world countries. Commercial aviation here is highly reliable and ultra-safe, at least technically. However, while techno...

Developing and managing talent in public services: Navigating the collaborative landscape

Conference Proceeding
Grant, K., Mackie, R., Gadsden, S., & McLaughlin, D. (2018)
Developing and managing talent in public services: Navigating the collaborative landscape. In Conference Proceedings
Against a background of significant public service reform and growing acceptance of the need for public service organizations to better co-ordinate and integrate approaches to...

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