Professor Edgar Meyer

Professor Edgar Meyer

Social Sciences
Dean, Birmingham Business School

Contact details

Address
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Professor Edgar Meyer joined the University of Birmingham in October 2023, following nearly two decades across various Schools in the UK. 

Edgar has a broad range of interest, with much of his work in leadership and teamwork in health and social care settings.  More recently this has included work on leadership in hybrid teams.

He has researched and published also in the area of digital pedagogies, focusing on how pedagogical decisions are made for quality online learning design, and by whom.

To conctact Edgar email his PA: j.e.bryan.1@bham.ac.uk

Qualifications

Ph.D. University of Southampton

B.S.c. Health Studies and Management, University of Lincoln

Biography

Edgar has had a career spanning 25 years in various institutions across the UK.  Beginning his academic career at Southampton Business School, University of Southampton, where he completed his PhD and worked for nearly 15 years culminating in his appointment to Professor of HRM and Organisational Behaviour and Director of the MBA. 

In 2015 he moved to Imperial College Business School as Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programmes and Education Quality.  From there he moved to Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds, as Deputy Dean where he looked after Accreditations, Staffing, Executive Education, and Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. 

In 2023 Edgar commenced his appointment as Dean of Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham. 

Edgar  is an academic Member of the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development (CIPD) and an active volunteer for the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).  He was the Vice-Chair, and then Chair, of the EDI Committee of the Chartered ABS and  he continues to serve as a trustee of several charitable organisations. He has held visiting professorial roles across the globe, such as Cotrugli Business School, Croatia, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan, and Universidad del Pacifico, Peru. 

Postgraduate supervision

Leadership
Team work
Online pedagogy

Research

Edgar has a broad range of interest, with much of his work in leadership and team work having taken place in health and social care settings.  More recently this has included work on leadership in hybrid teams.

Edgar has researched and published also in the area of digital pedagogies, focusing on how pedagocial decisions are made for quality online learning design, and by whom.

Other activities

Edgar is an academic Member of the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development (CIPD) and an active volunteer for the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).

Publications

Recent publications

Book

Meyer, E & Ashleigh, M 2007, Contemporary Management: European Edition. McGraw-Hill Education.

Article

Papageorgiou, V, Meyer, E & Ntonia, I 2024, 'Designing Holistic and Multivoiced Online Learning: Higher Education Actors’ Pedagogical Decisions and Perspectives', Education Sciences, vol. 14, no. 5, 504. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci14050504

Ahmad, F, Meyer, E & Higgs, M 2024, 'Financial Incentives and Prosocial Motivation Among Physicians in a Faith-Based Society', Public Performance and Management Review. https://doi.org/10.1080/15309576.2024.2369331

Remtulla, R, Hagana, A, Houbby, N, Ruparell, K, Aojula, N, Menon, A, Thavarajasingam, SG & Meyer, E 2021, 'Exploring the barriers and facilitators of psychological safety in primary care teams: a qualitative study', BMC Health Services Research, vol. 21, 269. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-021-06232-7

Tahir, A, Al-Zubaidy, M, Naqvi, D, Tarfiee, A, Naqvi, F, Malik, A, Vara, S & Meyer, E 2019, 'Medical school teaching on interprofessional relationships between primary and social care to enhance communication and integration of care – a pilot study', Advances in Medical Education and Practice. https://doi.org/10.2147/AMEP.S179833

Naqvi, D, Malik, A, Al-Zubaidy, M, Naqvi, F, Tahir, A, Tarfiee, A, Vara, S & Meyer, E 2019, 'The general practice perspective on barriers to integration between primary and social care: A London, United Kingdom-based qualitative interview study', BMJ open. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-029702

Lees, A, Meyer, E & Rafferty, J 2013, 'From Menzies Lyth to Munro: The problem of managerialism', British Journal of Social Work. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcr183

Meyer, E & Lees, A 2013, 'Learning to Collaborate: An Application of Activity Theory to Interprofessional Learning Across Children's Services', Social Work Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2012.704012

Lees, A & Meyer, E 2011, 'Theoretically speaking: Use of a communities of practice framework to describe and evaluate interprofessional education', Journal of Interprofessional Care. https://doi.org/10.3109/13561820.2010.515429

Klein, JH, Connell, NAD & Meyer, E 2007, 'Operational research practice as storytelling', Journal of the Operational Research Society. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602277

Meyer, E, Lees, A, Humphris, D & Connell, NAD 2007, 'Opportunities and barriers to successful learning transfer: Impact of critical care skills training', Journal of Advanced Nursing. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2648.2007.04422.x

Wang, J-K, Ashleigh, M & Meyer, E 2006, 'Knowledge sharing and team trustworthiness: It's all about social ties!', Knowledge Management: Research & Practice. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.kmrp.8500098

Chapter

Manimaran, M, Bennett, AN & Meyer, E 2017, Design, innovation and management. in Making the Most of Medical School: The Alternative Guide First Edition. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781315103631-7

Ashleigh, MJ & Meyer, E 2015, Deepening the understanding of trust: Combining repertory grid and narrative to explore the uniqueness of trust. in Handbook of Research Methods on Trust: Second Edition. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781009246.00026

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