CIQ Academic Advisory Board
The Academic Advisory Board comprises of distinguished individuals from the academia who provide deep insights and overall guidance for the academic strategy of CIQ . They provide constant advice and ongoing support in the development of quality standards which are at par with internationally benchmarked education standards. Their combined experience , collective knowledge and academic wisdom allows CIQ to offer qualifications at the highest levels supporting acceptance and recognition for progression to universities and professional bodies. They also advise on oversight and compliance with mandatory and regulatory requirements to ensure compliance with standard setting organizations. The Academic Advisory Board contributes actively to CIQ’s goal to be recognized as a global provider of accredited, high quality qualifications by providing a flexible, innovative and responsive approach to gain valued learning.
Dr. Andrew Hambler.
Senior Lecturer in Human Resources and Employment Law
University of Wolverhampton Business School (UWBS)
Andrew is a former HR Consultant who worked for many years for the international financial services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. Since entering higher education as a senior lecturer in 2004, Andrew has undertaken short term lecturing assignments in several countries and currently manages the Faculty of Social Science’s transnational education programmes in India, Sri Lanka and the UAE.
Andrew’s research interests are focused on religion and law in the workplace and he completed his PhD at Durham University, under the supervision of Prof Ian Leigh, in 2013. His research has been quoted in national reports for the Equality and Human Rights Commission. He has written a monograph on the subject of religious expression at work and the law and this was published by Routledge as the first title in a series on law and religion. In 2015, an article by Andrew was one of the five most highly rated by practitioners in the Chartered Management Institute’s Top Management Articles competition. Andrew has also written a number of journal articles and book chapters on religious practice and the workplace and regularly presents his work at international conferences. As well as publishing in this field, Andrew has acted as an adviser to religiorganizationsanisations.
Andrew is also interested in employment law questions more generally and has provided expert comment for the BBC on equal pay issues. As a higher education practitioner as well as researcher, Andrew was successful in his bid for EU Transversal funding in 2011/12 for a teaching and learning project in Eastern Europe. Andrew has been an Associate Examiner for the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development for more than a decade. He became a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2016.Academic qualifications
PhD, Law, Durham University: “Legal responses to the individual manifestation and expression of religion in the workplace in England and Wales: a conceptual framework”
LLM (Distinction), Law and Employment Relations, University of Leicester
MSc, Human Resource Management, UMIST (Dissertation with Distinction)
PGCE, Post-compulsory Education & Training, University of Huddersfield
BA (Hons) History, University of Durham
PROFESSOR TOBIE DE CONING
Chief Director: Strategic Initiatives and Human Resources Stellenbosch University
Management Background/Career Highlights:
Chief Director: Strategic Initiatives and Human Resources for the University of Stellenbosch. Professor De Coning is the highest official in the University Administration in charge of the strategic planning and human resources at the University. He also serves in this capacity as advisor to the President of Stellenbosch University, Professor Russel Botman.
Professor and Senior Director, Distance Education, University of Stellenbosch
Professor of Entrepreneurship, Intrapreneurship, Small Business Management, Strategic Transformation
Education:
Bmil, 1972 (STELL)
MBA, 1980 (cum laude) (STELL)
PhD, 1988 (STELL)
Awards:
Recipient of prestigious Sanlam Award for outstanding research (two consecutive years) Received the Professional Management Association’s prize for the best article to appear in the South African Journal of Business Management in 2002. It deals with intrapreneurial behavior and company performance.
Diane Bell
Diane holds an MBA and a PhD in Education. She recently took a 6-month sabbatical to work as a member of the Global Cooperation on Assistive Technologies (GATE) team within the unit of Essential Medicines and Health Products at the World Health Organization in Geneva, after having served four year as the Director of Academic Affairs at the University of Stellenbosch Business School – Executive Development (USB-ED).
Her thesis was entitled “Investigating Teaching and Learning Support for Students with Hearing Impairment at a University in the Western Cape”. As the mother of a daughter born with a profound hearing impairment, Diane is also an activist and researcher in this field.
Diane founded the first Disability Unit at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, is serving a third term on the Executive Committee of Higher and Further Education Disability Services Association (HEDSA), is a board member of the National Institute of the Deaf (NID) and the Carel du Toit Centre. Additionally, she was appointed to the South African Presidential Working Group on Disability and has published widely in this field.
Her research interests includes management education, action learning students with disabilities in higher education (in particular with a hearing impairment), the transition from secondary to higher education for students with disabilities, the curriculum and inclusivity as well as the world of work for persons with disabilities.