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Dr Melissa Hawkins

Assistant Professor

School: Newcastle Business School

Melissa is an academic at Northumbria University's Business School, with research interests shaped by over twenty years of experience in education, including time spent as a teacher practitioner in schools. Her work centres on developing complexity-informed policy and practice through utilising action-oriented research methods. Melissa adopts an engaged scholarship approach to her role, actively linking research and knowledge exchange with teaching and learning activities.

Melissa Hawkins

  • Julie Aitken how action-orientated research (AOR) can be both scholarly and have impact Start Date: 01/10/2025
  • Julie Wooton Vulnerability Reimagined: Crisis, Complexity and the Normalisation of Change in a Local Health and Care System: A Theory-Driven Inquiry into Transformation in Oldham During the COVID-19 Response Start Date: 08/11/2024 End Date: 17/10/2025

  • Education PhD June 28 2023
  • Education MA December 13 2012
  • Education PGCE June 18 2003
  • Philosophy BA (Hons) July 07 2001
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy FHEA
  • Qualified Teacher Status QTS


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One year after Northumbria University was announced as the lead research partner on the 2026 State of the World's Volunteerism Report (SWVR) produced by United Nations Volunteers (UNV), the publication has been launched in New York on International Volunteer Day, 5 December.
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Northumbria University Graphic Design student, Adam Graham, with Director of Converge Northumbria, Ally Hunter-Byron.
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Northumbria University Carol Service 2025
Collaborating for Capability: Shaping the Future of Supply Chain Talent
Viruses of Microbes-UK (VoM-UK) Conference 2026
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