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Dr Paul Tosey

Senior Lecturer in Management

Qualifications: BSc MSc PhD

Email:
Phone: Work: 01483 68 9763
Room no: 53 MS 03

Office hours

My office hours this semester are usually on Mondays and Wednesdays 2-4; these hours can sometimes vary so please check the noticeboard outside my office.   

Further information

Biography

Currently I am Head of PhD Programmes for Surrey Business School. I joined Surrey in 1991, validating and then directing the MSc in Change Agent Skills and Strategies, an innovative, experiential programme for consultants, coaches and facilitators. My previous experience includes management and internal consultancy in local government, freelance training and consulting, lecturing at the University of Edinburgh, and tutoring for the Open University. Practical training includes Master Practitioner of NLP (1992), and I am a certified Clean Language facilitator (2007). 

 

I have won awards for my research: 

The Alan Moon prize for best paper, 12th International Human Resource Development Conference, 2011.

and for my teaching:

Higher Education Academy National Teaching Fellow (2007).

 

Current projects:

1. `”Clean Language” as an innovative method for exploring work-life balance’ (research project).

Clean Language work life balance project report (1935.07KB - Requires Adobe Reader)

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2. A SCEPTrE Fellowship project exploring the feasibility of adapting the innovative `Team Academy' approach from its Finnish educational context to the UK.

3. `An exploration of the use of student-run real businesses in the region, the UK and internationally as the learning for all or part of the award of a university degree’ (Higher Education Entrepreneurship Group)

 

`Neuro-Linguistic Programming: a critical appreciation for managers and developers’, with co-author Dr Jane Mathison, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2009. 


Research Interests

  • `Inner space’: exploring inner worlds and facilitating individual learning and personal development through systemic modes of coaching, especially `Clean Language’ (a metaphor-based practice) and Neuro-linguistic Programming.
  • Organisational learning, especially the work of Gregory Bateson and his theory of `levels of learning’ and its applications; paradoxical features of organisational change strategies, such as unintended consequences.
  • Phenomenological research methods: innovations such as applications of `Clean Language’ to research; Psycho-phenomenology; the role of metaphor and epistemic questions.
  • Transformative learning theory and practice: enquiry-based learning, experiential learning, creativity, and complexity theory in Higher Education; Team Academy (a Finnish approach to enterprise and leadership education).

Publications

Highlights

  • Tosey P, Saunders MNK, Visser M. (2012) 'The origins and conceptualisations of triple loop learning:a critical review'. Management Learning,
    doi: 10.1177/1350507611426239

    [ Status: Accepted ]
  • Tosey PC, Visser M, Saunders M. (2012) 'The origins and conceptualisations of `triple-loop’ learning: a critical review'. Management Learning,
    doi: 10.1177/1350507611426239

    [ Status: Accepted ]
  • Tosey PC. (2011) '`Symbolic Modelling’ as an innovative phenomenological method in HRD research: the work-life balance project'. University of Gloucestershire: 12th International Conference on HRD Research and Practice across Europe
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/7135/
  • Tosey P, Mathison J. (2010) 'Neuro-linguistic programming as an innovation in education and teaching'. ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD INNOV EDUC TEACH INT, 47 (3), pp. 317-326.
    doi: 10.1080/14703297.2010.498183
  • Tosey P. (2010) 'Exploring Inner Landscapes: NLP and Psycho-phenomenology as innovations in researching first-person experience'. Emerald Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management, 5 (1), pp. 63-82.
    doi: 10.1108/17465641011042035
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/7448/
  • Tosey P, Mathison J. (2009) Neuro-Linguistic Programming: a critical appreciation for managers and developers. Palgrave Macmillan
  • Mathison J, Tosey P. (2008) 'Riding into transformative learning'. IMPRINT ACADEMIC J CONSCIOUSNESS STUD, 15 (2), pp. 67-88.
  • Tosey P. (2005) 'The hunting of the learning organization - A paradoxical journey'. SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD MANAGE LEARN, 36 (3), pp. 335-352.
    doi: 10.1177/1350507605055350
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/145893/

Journal articles

  • Day T, Tosey PC. (2012) 'Beyond SMART? A new framework for goal setting'. The Curriculum Journal,
    doi: 10.1080/09585176.2011.627213
  • Tosey PC, Visser M, Saunders M. (2012) 'The origins and conceptualisations of `triple-loop’ learning: a critical review'. Management Learning,
    doi: 10.1177/1350507611426239

    [ Status: Accepted ]
  • Tosey P, Mathison J. (2010) 'Neuro-linguistic programming as an innovation in education and teaching'. ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD INNOV EDUC TEACH INT, 47 (3), pp. 317-326.
    doi: 10.1080/14703297.2010.498183
  • Tosey P. (2010) 'Exploring Inner Landscapes: NLP and Psycho-phenomenology as innovations in researching first-person experience'. Emerald Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management, 5 (1), pp. 63-82.
    doi: 10.1108/17465641011042035
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/7448/
  • Mathison J, Tosey P. (2009) 'Exploring Moments of Knowing Neuro-Linguistic Programming and enquiry into inner landscapes'. IMPRINT ACADEMIC J CONSCIOUSNESS STUD, 16 (10-12), pp. 189-216.
  • Tosey P. (2008) 'It’s a Living Thing: a Neuro-Linguistic Programming perspective on essay writing'. Humanising Language Teaching, 0 (0)
  • Tosey P, Mathison J. (2008) 'Do Organisations Learn? Some implications for HRD of Bateson’s levels of learning'. SAGE Human Resource Development Review, 7 (1), pp. 13-31.
    doi: 10.1177/1534484307312524
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/145889/
  • Mathison J, Tosey P. (2008) 'Riding into transformative learning'. IMPRINT ACADEMIC J CONSCIOUSNESS STUD, 15 (2), pp. 67-88.
  • Tosey P. (2008) 'Once Upon a Time… Tales of Organisational Learning'. Emerald The Learning Organization, 15 (6), pp. 454-462.
    doi: 10.1108/09696470810907365
  • Tosey P. (2008) 'Innovations in Constructivist Research: NLP, psycho-phenomenology and the exploration of inner landscapes'. The Psychotherapist, 37 (0), pp. 5-8.
  • Willoughby G, Tosey P. (2007) 'Imagine 'meadfield': Appreciative inquiry as a process for leading school improvement'. Sage Educational Management Administration and Leadership, 35 (4), pp. 499-520.
    doi: 10.1177/1741143207081059
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/7452/
  • Tosey P. (2005) 'The hunting of the learning organization - A paradoxical journey'. SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD MANAGE LEARN, 36 (3), pp. 335-352.
    doi: 10.1177/1350507605055350
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/145893/
  • Tosey P, Robinson G. (2002) 'When change is no longer enough: What do we mean by "transformation" in organizational change work?'. Emerald TQM Magazine, 14 (2), pp. 100-109.
    doi: 10.1108/09544780210416711

Conference papers

  • Tosey PC. (2011) '`Symbolic Modelling’ as an innovative phenomenological method in HRD research: the work-life balance project'. University of Gloucestershire: 12th International Conference on HRD Research and Practice across Europe
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/7135/
  • Tosey P, Mathison J. (2009) 'Transformative learning: from critical reflection to emergence through guided introspection?'. Newcastle Business School, UK: 10th International Conference on Human Resource Development Research and Practice Across Europe
    [ Status: Unpublished ]
  • Tosey P, Mathison J, Langley D. (2008) 'Flesh and Blood and Action: Organisations, Learning and Aesthetics'. Lille: 9th International Conference on Human Resource Development Research and Practice across Europe
    [ Status: Unpublished ]

Books

  • Tosey P, Mathison J. (2009) Neuro-Linguistic Programming: a critical appreciation for managers and developers. Palgrave Macmillan

Book chapters

  • Tosey P, Langley D, Mathison J. (2010) 'Bateson’s Levels of Learning as a Conceptual Framework for Workplace Learning'. in van Woerkom M, Poell R (eds.) Workplace Learning: Concepts, Measurement, and Application London : Routledge , pp. 55-68.
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/145879/
  • Tosey P. (2010) 'Neuro-Linguistic Programming for Leaders and Managers'. in Gold J, Thorpe R, Mumford A (eds.) Gower Handbook of Leadership and Management Development 5 Edition. , pp. 313-329.
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/1187/
  • Tosey P, McDonnell J, Airey DW. (2009) 'Emergent conceptions of enquiry-based learning'. in (ed.) FDTL Voices: Drawing from Learning and Teaching Projects York : Higher Education Academy , pp. 68-78.
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/145887/

Reports

  • Carey J, Churches R, Hutchinson G, Jones J, Tosey PC. (2009) Neuro-linguistic programming and learning: teacher case studies on the impact of NLP in education. in (ed.) Neuro-linguistic programming and learning: teacher case studies on the impact of NLP in education Reading :

Teaching

Undergraduate: `Issues in Human Resource Management' (Convenor); professional training supervision; personal tutoring

Postgraduate: MBA module `Strategic Change Management’ (Convenor); MBA Action consultancy; dissertation supervision

DBA supervision

Doctoral supervision (as first supervisor):

  • Richard Churches 
  • Heather Cairns-Lee
  • Thuraya Said

Departmental Duties

Head of PhD Programmes, Surrey Business School

University of Surrey Validation Board

Faculty of Management and Law Research Ethics Committee

Affiliations

University Forum for Human Resource Development (Council, Surrey representative) 

Chair, Programme and Qualifications sub-committee, UFHRD

Association for Neuro-Linguistic Programming

Editor in chief,`Current Research in NLP'

Editorial board member: