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Before joining the London School of Economics and Political Science as a Fellow in the Management department, Helen was a Teaching Fellow at the University of Warwick. She taught International Business Development, Global Business Environment and Markets, and the Global Business Environment Cyprus programme at the University of Warwick. She has teaching experience using hybrid methods, blending face-to-face and live-streamed teaching methods, including large lectures and small seminars.
Prior to her time at Warwick University, Helen gained teaching experience within the first-year UG Management and MSc IB programme at the University of Birmingham. She taught various modules at the University of Birmingham, including International Business Strategy, Digital Business Analytics and Strategy, Financial Strategy, Research Methods in International Business, Issues in Management, Principles of Responsible Business, Responsible Business: Theory and Practice, and the International Business Negotiations module in the International Business programme. In 2021, Helen also served as a guest lecturer on the 1st UG Digital Business module at the University of Birmingham. In this role, she was responsible for designing lectures covering three weeks of the first-year UG Digital Business module. The topics included Digital Platform Business, Blockchain and Bitcoin, and Distributed Ledgers. Helen also delivered four weeks of online seminars following these guest lectures.
With 6 years of industry experience working in the Chinese stock market in China before returning to the university, Helen completed her MSc in International Business from the University of Birmingham in 2017. Following her MSc studies, she earned her PhD in Economic Geography and International Business at the University of Birmingham in 2022. Her PhD title is "Translocal Educational Enterprises and the Internationalization of English Independent Schools." The research involved multidisciplinary work grounded in economic geography and international business literature. Helen's PhD research employed a qualitative research approach with semi-structured interviews, supported by a multiple case study research design. The analysis was based on 98 semi-structured interviews. Using NVivo 12 for data analysis, she explored educational service internationalization and the economic and non-economic transactions between developed and emerging markets.