Ms Carol Sherriff

Professional biography

Carol Sherriff is a Senior Lecturer in Business and Management in the Department for Public Leadership and Social Enterprise of the Open University Business School.

She currently specialising in teaching leadership, entrepreneurship and innovation. She is academic lead of a university wide project on practice tuition which she co-leads with James Nicholson. 

Before joining the Business School, she ran her own company and in her spare time taught as an associate lecturer on the MBA and later undergraduate programme. In 2017, she combined this interest in innovation and enterprise and business education by becoming a Teaching Fellow, then Teaching Director and Associate Dean in the Faculty of Business and Law.  

She has a masters certificate in Teaching and Learning and is a Senior Fellow of Advance HE.

She is also a certified Master Facilitator, accredited by the International Association of Facilitators. 

Research interests

Carol has an interest in teaching and learning and using scholarship and innovation research to improve modules in presentation. She has a particular interest in scholarship research in the areas of retention and success, entrepreneurial learning and learning across cultures. She is currently engaged in a scholarship exploring how students who study two concurrent 60 credit models manage their studies.

Teaching interests

Her teaching interests include leadership, entrepreneurship and innovation and entrepreneurial learning.

External collaborations

Carol is one of only two European members of the International Association of Facilitators Hall of Fame.