Faculty promotions from within at Warwick Business School

Two members of faculty at Warwick Business School have recently been promoted to the top academic level of 'professor'.

Peter Corvi is promoted to Professorial Teaching Fellow, the first such promotion within WBS. Peter is also taking on the role of Associate Dean for the WBS Undergraduate Programme.

André Spicer As well as academic achievements, André has also made strong contributions in teaching, as an effective doctoral supervisor, as well as contributing to administrative duties.

Dean of WBS Mark Taylor commented, "I am particularly proud of Peter Corvi's promotion on two counts. First, he is a higher education teaching fellow of the very highest calibre, who has made outstanding contributions to WBS over a number of years, and whom I expect to continue to do so in the years ahead. Second, I personally am very proud to be the first Dean of WBS to see through the promotion of a teaching fellow to the highest level as it underlines the importance that the School attaches to teaching excellence in fulfilling our mission and achieving our vision as a leading business school.

"André Spicer has in recent years emerged as a leading international scholar in the field of Organizational Behaviour, with important contributions to the study of power and resistance in organizations, in which he has developed a unique conception of power and resistance in organizational life. André has also applied these ideas to a range of organizational phenomena such as entrepreneurship, new technology, worker cynicism, social movements, industrial relations disputes, employee identity, new work spaces, leadership and branding."