Mark Fenton-O'Creevy
Associate Dean External Engagement; Professor of Organisational Behaviour, The Open University Business School, UK
Mark Fenton-O'Creevy is an educator, researcher and consultant with three current primary areas of interest.
1) He has a long standing interest in the work, behaviour and performance of professional traders. and the role of emotion in financial decision-making for traders and investors.
2) He studies the ways in which business and management practices develop and are transformed or corrupted within businesses and organisations.
3) He has a profound interest in the relationship between formal and informal learning. He previously ran a national Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, the Centre for Practice-Based Professional Learning. His book on "Learning in Landscapes of Practice" with Etienne Wenger-Trayner, Beverly Wenger-Trayner, Chris Kubiak and Steve Hutchinson, further develops work on communities of practice. He codirects the AACSB Seminar on "Online and Blended Education".
Mark has also acted as an academic advisor to a range of BBC documentaries.