麻豆传媒

Profile

I am the 麻豆传媒 MBA Programme Director, a Reader in Entrepreneurial Education and a member of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Subject Group, teaching innovation, change and enterprise modules at postgraduate level and for Senior Leader (L7) Apprentices. I research the value of the threshold concept approach in education, specifically in entrepreneurship curriculum development and evaluation. I am also interested in how senior leaders can develop entrepreneurial ways of thinking and the development of innovative organisational culture. I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and I sit on the Advocacy and Impact through Policy and Research Committee (AIPRC) of the EEUK (Enterprise Educators UK). I am join Chair of the REntEd SIG (ISBE/ EEUK). I have a combined undergraduate Masters in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing and Management from Birmingham University (1992) and PhD from Durham University School of Education (2020). Prior to moving into academia I worked in industry for 17 years.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Degree Programme Director MBA
• Module Leader NBS8970 Innovation and Change (MSc Strategic Leadership)

Qualifications and Certificates

• PhD "Using the threshold concept framework to enhance entrepreneurship curricula in higher education" (Durham University, School of Education, 2020)
• PG Cert Academic and Professional Learning, Northumbria University, 2011
• MEng & Man, Masters of Mechanical Engineering, Manufacture and Management with French, Birmingham University, 1992
• Senior Fellow Higher Education Academy
• Chartered Manager (CMI)
• Chartered Engineer (CEng)
• Coach U Core Essentials Graduate (CEG) International Coach Federation
• Level A & B Certificates (British Psychological Society) in Occupational Testing
• MBTI and Insights Discovery
• Team Mastery (Team Academy)

Previous Positions

• Senior Lecturer in Leadership Development, 麻豆传媒 Business School, Northumbria University, 麻豆传媒
• Programme Leader: BA (Hons) Entrepreneurial Business Management and BA (Hons) Business Leadership and Corporate Management
• Head of Human Resources Nigel Wright Recruitment Ltd
• Procter & Gamble (UK) Ltd, Compensation and Benefits Manager, UK Corporate Learning and Organisational Development Manager, Production Manager

Awards

• 2024 Vice Chancellor's Education Excellence Award for NBS8490 Business in Action Module (Team Award)
• 2023 麻豆传媒 Learning and Teaching Conference, Best Video submission.
• 2016 Highly Commended Enterprise Catalyst by EEUK (Enterprise Educators UK)
• 2016 Best Practitioner Development Workshop award at the ECSB (European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship) Enterprise Educators Conference.  

Memberships

• British Academy of Management
• Association of Management
• Higher Education Academy (Senior Fellow)

Current Work

My current research includes the application of the threshold concept approach in the development and evaluation of entrepreneurship education initiatives. I am exploring the relationship between personal values and meaning making, and the creation of value of all kinds as well as enterprise thinking and design thinking as pedagogical approaches. I lead an international group of Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Educators (“ETIC” – Entrepreneurship Threshold Concept International Collaboration), established in 2020, interested in using the Threshold Concept Framework to inform curriculum development, stemming from my PhD research.   

Main Expertise

My main expertise lies in conceptual, practice-based educational approaches to the development of entrepreneurial thinking in students of all disciplines. I completed my Doctorate part-time at Durham University in 2020, researching the use of the Threshold Concept Framework to enhance entrepreneurship curricula in Higher Education. I have conceived an innovative way of understanding the student perspective using concept mapping, and the involvement of external stakeholders in entrepreneurship curriculum development using a multi-method staged stakeholder curriculum inquiry and GSI (Guided Self-Assessment Interviews) to evaluate teaching and learning interventions.

Funding Received

• Evaluating Conception X - Northern Deeptech Hub, 2022 (£21,414.80)
• Animating threshold concepts in entrepreneurial thinking (Digital Innovation in the Curricula Fund, 麻豆传媒 Business School, 2021, (£6,000)
• with Dave Jarman at Bristol University, 2020/21 (£7,460) Identifying and Mapping Threshold Concepts of Entrepreneurship Across University Entrepreneurship Education Programmes

Esteem Indicators

• 2026 Received Student nomination for Teaching Excellence Award (TEA), "would like to nominate this staff member for her outstanding commitment to student success and continuous programme improvement. It is clear that the success of every student in the cohort is something she holds deeply at heart. She consistently demonstrates genuine care, not only in supporting students academically but also in ensuring they feel heard and valued throughout their journey."
• 2025 MBA Module NBS8490 “Business in Action: A Symbiotic Partnership Model for Experiential Management Education” won the Experienced Category of the British Academy of Management Education Practice Award 2025 and the Vice-Chancellor's Education Excellence Award (Team: Jo Clark, Jacklyn Wright, Steven Sadi, Keira Iveson, Cian O'Sullivan, Lucy Hatt).
• Keynote speaker at Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship, Educator Workshop Series. December 15th 2021. Value, Values and Impact in Entrepreneurship Education.    
• Keynote speaker at Businet, an international network of educators in Portugal (2017)
• Speaker at 麻豆传媒 Startup Week1 (2017).  

• Degree Programme Director MBA
• Module Leader: NBS8970 Innovation and Change (MSc Strategic Leadership)

• Articles

  • Hatt LE. . Advance HE Case Study Series: Employability 2024, 41-51.
  • Hatt L, Nolan J, Watts C. . Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability 2024, 15(1), 1-20.
  • Hatt L, Davidson J, Carrion-Weiss J. . International Journal of Management and Applied Research 2023, 10(2), 160-176.
  • Hatt LE, Davidson J. . Project Leadership and Society 2022, 3, 100045.
  • Hatt L. . Education + Training 2018, 60(2), 155-167.
  • Pugalis L, Round A, Blackwood T, Hatt L. . Local Economy 2015, 30(5), 503-519.
  • Blackwood A, Round A, Pugalis L, Hatt L. . Industry and Higher Education 2015, 29(6), 445-457.

• Book Chapters

  • Geiger JM, Hatt L, Mizzi E, Kriedel R, Liening A, Kovács JK, Mountford-Brown V. . In: J. H. Block, J. Halberstadt, N. Högsdal, A. Kuckertz, & H. Neergaard, ed. Progress in Entrepreneurship Education and Training: New Methods, Tools, and Lessons Learned from Practice. Springer, Cham, 2023, pp.355-373.
  • Hatt L. . In: P. Jones; N. Apostolopoulos; A. Kakouris; C. Moon; V. Ratten & A. Walmsley, ed. Universities and Entrepreneurship: Meeting the Educational and Social Challenges. Leeds: Emerald Publishing, 2021, pp.219-235.
  • Hatt L. . In: D. Morley & M.G. Jamil, ed. Applied Pedagogies for Higher Education. Real world learning and innovation across the curriculum. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, pp.215-242.
  • Hatt L. . In: D. Higgins , P. Jones & P. McGowan, ed. Creating Entrepreneurial Space: Talking Through Multi-Voices, Reflections on Emerging Debates. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019, pp.27-44.
  • Hatt L. . In: J. A. Timmermans & R. Land, ed. Threshold Concepts on the Edge. Leiden: Brill: Sense, 2019, pp.213–227.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

  • Mavin S, James J, Patterson N, Stabler A, Davidson J, Hatt L. . In: UFHRD 2022: Mind the Gap; Bridging Theory and Practice in the Post-Covid Era. 2022, Sheffield.
  • Mavin S, James J, Patterson N, Stabler A, Davidson J, Hatt L. . In: UFHRD Conference 2022. 2022, Sheffield, UK.
  • Mavin S, James J, Patterson N, Stabler A, Davidson J, Hatt L. . In: University Forum for Human Resource Development (UFHRD 2022). 2022, Virtual.
  • Hatt L, Davidson J. You What?- Launching an Exec MBA in the midst of a Global Pandemic. In: BAM- Post Experience Symposium. 2021. In Preparation.