Dr Antonia Voigt
About
Biography
Since 2024, I am a Lecturer in Business and Management at the Surrey Business School. Prior to joining Surrey, I completed my PhD at the University of Bristol. Bringing together my interdisciplinary background in management and education, my key research interests relate to sustainability management, organisational change, and complex systems.
Currently, I am involved in pedagogical research project on feedback literacy, the Action Feedback Protocol and I am the co-editor of the British Educational Research Association’s Research Intelligence Spring Issue on quality in higher education systems in the UK and China.
In my teaching, I focus on authentic assessments, co-creating immersive learning opportunities and engaging students with academic perspectives and worldviews from across the globe. I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Association (FHEA) and a Sustainability Fellow with the Institute for Sustainability.
University roles and responsibilities
- Academic Integrity Officer
- Research Ethics Officer
- Panel Member for OSCAR
My qualifications
Affiliations and memberships
SIGs: Organization Development and Change, Organizations and The Natural Environment
SIG: Sustainable and Responsible Business
ResearchResearch interests
My broad areas of research interest are sustainability management, policy successes and failures, complex systems, organisational change and strategic management and I work with qualitative, quantitative and mixed-methods data.
Research projects
Action Feedback Protocol: Enabling Students to Make the Most of Feedback (ongoing)The Action Feedback Protocol (AFP) uses evidence-informed, yet simple and robust approaches to address feedback as part of a bigger complex system. The approach focuses on the need to foster proactive recipience among learners, couples the nature of feedback produced with students’ expectations of it, and creates structured alignment between staff across marking teams.
The AFP is intended as an Open Educational Resource (OER): https://sites.google.com/view/theactionfeedbackprotocol/home
Principal Investigator: Dr Andrew MacLaren, Heriot-Watt University
Financial Sustainability of UK Universities (ongoing)Key responsibilities: a quantitative analysis of UK universities’ financial resilience to examine why policymaking in complex systems often fails, and how it can be improved.
Athena Swan Charter Awards in the Faculty of Science and Engineering (2024)Key responsibilities: conducted interviews and surveys, analysing social and institutional dynamics in two natural science schools to develop actions plans aimed at improving gender equality
Teacher Accountability to Improve Learning Outcomes: Synthesis of Four Case Studies (2024)Key responsibilities: analysed secondary qualitative and quantitative data to synthesise comparative findings, and arranged and contributed to dissemination activities
Principal Investigator: Professor Melanie Ehren, Free University of Amsterdam
Research Consultant for British Educational Research Association (2022)Key responsibilities: analysed inter/national educational research conferences to build a comprehensive database of conference styles and format
Universal Access to Secondary Education in the Asia Pacific Region (2021)Key responsibilities: analysed large quantitative datasets to produce descriptive, inferential and predictive statistics and comparable data summaries, co-wrote and copy-edited the project report
Principal Investigator: Dr William C Smith, University of Edinburgh
Indicators of esteem
Nominated for Best Thesis award for PhD dissertation (outcome pending), University of Bristol (2024)
Best Paper award for a paper presented at the British Academy of Management conference, Special Interest Group: Sustainable and Responsible Business (2024)
PhD Scholarship, University of Bristol (2021–2024)
Research interests
My broad areas of research interest are sustainability management, policy successes and failures, complex systems, organisational change and strategic management and I work with qualitative, quantitative and mixed-methods data.
Research projects
The Action Feedback Protocol (AFP) uses evidence-informed, yet simple and robust approaches to address feedback as part of a bigger complex system. The approach focuses on the need to foster proactive recipience among learners, couples the nature of feedback produced with students’ expectations of it, and creates structured alignment between staff across marking teams.
The AFP is intended as an Open Educational Resource (OER): https://sites.google.com/view/theactionfeedbackprotocol/home
Principal Investigator: Dr Andrew MacLaren, Heriot-Watt University
Key responsibilities: a quantitative analysis of UK universities’ financial resilience to examine why policymaking in complex systems often fails, and how it can be improved.
Key responsibilities: conducted interviews and surveys, analysing social and institutional dynamics in two natural science schools to develop actions plans aimed at improving gender equality
Key responsibilities: analysed secondary qualitative and quantitative data to synthesise comparative findings, and arranged and contributed to dissemination activities
Principal Investigator: Professor Melanie Ehren, Free University of Amsterdam
Key responsibilities: analysed inter/national educational research conferences to build a comprehensive database of conference styles and format
Key responsibilities: analysed large quantitative datasets to produce descriptive, inferential and predictive statistics and comparable data summaries, co-wrote and copy-edited the project report
Principal Investigator: Dr William C Smith, University of Edinburgh
Indicators of esteem
Nominated for Best Thesis award for PhD dissertation (outcome pending), University of Bristol (2024)
Best Paper award for a paper presented at the British Academy of Management conference, Special Interest Group: Sustainable and Responsible Business (2024)
PhD Scholarship, University of Bristol (2021–2024)
Teaching
I am the module lead for Global Business Context (MAN0004), and teach on CREATE (Creative, Resourcefulness, Entrepreneurship and Task Evaluation) (MAN0003), Introduction to Decision Making (MAN0002) and Research Projects (MAN0005).
Sustainable development goals
My research interests are related to the following:
Publications
Highlights
Voigt, A. & MacLaren, A. (2026) From dilemmas to paradoxes: A complex systems view of sustainability management in UK universities. European Management Review, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1111/emre.70048