Stacey Mottershaw

School of Education

EdD doctoral research student

The Wave

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Stacey Mottershaw
School of Education
The Wave
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Profile

As an EdD student in the School of Education, I am currently undertaking a research project exploring the career journeys and trajectories of academics with working-class heritage. My supervisors are Dr Tim Herrick and Dr Darren Webb.

My research utilises a qualitative methodology, where I interview each participant three times, during on the tradition of transcendental phenomenology. 

In my day job I am an Associate Professor at Leeds University Business School teaching ethics, CSR and sustainability across both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.

I am a Senior Fellow of Advance HE (SFHEA), a Recognised Senior Advisor through the UK Advising and Tutoring association (UKAT) and a Certified Management Business Educator (CMBE) with the Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS).

I have a particular interest in understanding how we can better support under-represented students and staff, and other interests around authentic pedagogy, career development and applied ethics.  

Outside of work and study I play netball two to three times a week, spend time with my two cats, Luna and Nym, and have recently started attending ice hockey matches (Go Steelers!). 

Publications and presentations

Recent publications

Mottershaw, Stacey. 2023. Encouraging critique: a stimulating and provocative examination of dominant discourses in the higher education sector. Book review: Kinchin, I. M., and Gravett, K. (2022) Dominant discourses in higher education: critical perspectives, cartographies and practice. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, (26). DOI: 

Mottershaw, Stacey and Bramley, Gareth. 2022. To professionalise, or not to professionalise, that is (part of) the question. Higher Education Policy Institute. [Online]. Published 29th March 2022. Available from: 

Mottershaw, Stacey. 2021. Why we need to stop using the term widening participation. Higher Education Policy Institute. [Online]. Published 17th December 2021. Available from: 

Recent presentations

I have presented at a broad range of conferences and events but most recently these have included:

  • November 2023. 'Common ground: Using authenticity to make connections in teaching'.  International Society of Scholarship in Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) conference. Utrecht. 
  • September 2023. 'Common ground: Using authenticity to make connections in teaching'. RAISE Conference. Leeds.
  • September 2023. ‘Pay your dues’: student finance, debt and disrupting legal education' co-delivered with Gareth Bramley. University of Law Learning and Teaching Conference. Online. 
  • August 2023. Invited speaker: 'Understanding student success'. University of South Wales. Online. 
  • July 2023. 'Changes to delivery of academic personal tutoring', co-delivered with Anna Viragos. Society for Research in Higher Education (SRHE) Showcase. Online. 
  • June 2023. Invited keynote: ‘Flexible learning and higher education: a recipe for under-represented student success?’. Advance HE Flexible Learning Symposium. 14th June 2023. The Studio, Leeds.