Mandy Parkinson

Mandy is Head of Business and Public Engagement, HEA Fellow and Doctorial Researcher and joined Manchester Metropolitan Business School in 2016. Mandy is Programme Director across a series of SME programme to support leadership, innovation, business growth and entrepreneurship.

Mandy has extensive teaching and learning experience, in the education sector, which has included teaching at a variety of HEIs from Postgraduate programmes on International Business, Strategy, Operational Sustainability to profession programmes on strategy, enterprise , business start-up and marketing. She has also led a variety of teams to engage with and facilitate relationships between education and business. Fostering strategic partnerships external to the institutions, which support and promote the development of commercial income streams.

Mandy leads the Business and Public Engagement team, which drives forward all SME and external initiatives for the Faculty. She was also led the design and delivery of the ERASMUS+ DiTEM project delivering digital technology transformation to micro businesses across Europe.

Mandy sits on the pro-manchester Skills Committee.