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Dr Helen Charlton

Associate Professor

Department: Newcastle Business School

Helen is an Associate Professor and Head of Executive Education for the Business School. Helen’s remit includes all business apprenticeships, executive CPD programmes, and our distance learning programmes.  

Helen's teaching focusses on practice related HRM at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She has taught within HRM-related programmes in FE and HE for over a decade, and has specialised in the development of students’ academic and employability skills.

Helen’s professional practice was in senior HR management in the not-for-profit and arts sectors.  

Helen holds a Doctorate in Education and a Masters in Human Resource Management.  She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, is a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development, and a Chartered Manager and Fellow of CMI. Helen co-convenes the University Vocational Awards Council's HIgher Education Tripartite Professionals network. 

Helen Charlton

Helen’s research focuses on the tripartite relationship in UK higher education apprenticeships, examining how learners, employers, and universities interact to shape the experience of work-based learning. She is particularly interested in the engagement of apprentices with academic study alongside professional practice. Additionally, Helen explores contemporary higher education practices and the integration of knowledge into professional settings, particularly within human resource management. A qualitative researcher, she specialises in interpretative phenomenological analysis to understand the lived experiences of work-aligned learners.

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  • A Sector in Crisis? Insights from how English Higher Education Apprenticeships are Weathering the Storm, Power-Mason, P., Charlton, H., Walker-Martin, F., Bloomfield, S. 29 Jan 2025, In: Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
  • Bridging the gap: How business schools are building pathways to success with degree apprenticeships, Charlton, H. 8 Feb 2024
  • Tripartite Practitioners: an Emerging Academic Practice Area in UK Technical, Professional, and Vocational Higher Education, Charlton, H., Power-Mason, P. 6 Dec 2024, Society for Research in Higher Education Conference 2024
  • Surfacing the practices of Apprenticeship Tripartite Reviewer/Coaches in Business Schools, Charlton, H., Power-Mason, P. 30 Nov 2023, UVAC National Conference 2023
  • A Spontaneous Outbreak of Education, Charlton, H., Collins, D. 25 May 2022, Chartered Association of Business Schools, Learning Teaching and Student Experience Conference
  • Higher education under threat: China, Malaysia, and the UK respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, Ma, G., Black, K., Blenkinsopp, J., Charlton, H., Hookham, C., Pok, W., Sia, B., Alkarabsheh, O. 4 Jul 2022, In: Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education
  • How do we facilitate effective learning support in novel situations?: A case study of technology-enhanced personalisation supporting effective Higher Apprenticeship pedagogy, Charlton, H., Andrew, W. 6 Sep 2022, Association for Learning Technology, Annual Conference 2022
  • Mind the gap: Conceptualising and experiencing the space between academic and practice communities in HRM/D education, Charlton, H. 11 Nov 2021, Organisation and Human Resource Management, London, Taylor & Francis

https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/c/helen-charlton/

  • Teaching & Learning PGCLTHE
  • Education
  • Human Resource Management MSc
  • Chartered Manager and Chartered Fellow - Chartered Management Institute CMngr FCMI 2018
  • Chartered Member of Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development Chartered MCIPD
  • Senior Fellow (SFHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA)


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