Nick Pronger
Associate Lecturer in Work Based Learning
Contact details
email: n.pronger@bbk.ac.uk
tel: 020 3073 8393
Employment history
- Nick Pronger joined Birkbeck in the summer of 2008 as an associate lecturer in work-based learning.
- Nick had previously been Director for Foundation Degrees at University of Essex, Southend Campus, and lectured in business, entrepreneurship and run professional studies courses.
- Over the past fifteen years he has taught across a broad range of business subjects, particularly marketing, strategy and human resource management at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. This lecturing has taken him to institutes in Israel, Hungary and Mexico.
Affiliations/memberships
- Member of Chartered Institute in Marketing
- Member of Higher Education Academy
- University Association of Lifelong Learning (UALL) Employer Engagement Network
Research interests
- Nick’s research has focused on small business management, marketing and in recent years in skills acquisition for business students as part of his doctorate studies.
- Recently he has also been researching experience in the workplace and ways of identifying and measuring this.
Conferences
- Action Research to Practitioner Engagement through Work Based Learning. LSRN Conference, 11 December 2009 , London
- The role of work based learning (WBL) in Professional awards and their value to academic institutions, validating organisations and learners. SRHE Postgraduate and Newer Researchers' Conference December 8th 2008, Liverpool
- Professional awards and the difficulty in integrating them into academic institutions, and the affect on learners. Professional Identify and Practice- LSRN annual conference, 4 December 2008, London
