Gareth Stone

Personal statement

Gareth is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) and leads courses on Design Thinking within Bath Business School. He has an academic interest in Creativity and Enterprise from an Operations Management perspective.

Gareth joined the Business and Management team at Bath Spa University in 2009 after completing several successful Supply Chain programmes at the Lean and Agile Research Centre at the University of Bath.

His has an aviation production background, and has both industry and academic experience of implementing lean production systems. His main research areas are associated with the exploration of innovative 'build-to-order' concepts and enterprise training and business transformation and change.

He has published work on automotive transition strategies and was involved in the development of key industry performance metrics for the aerospace industry (UKLAI).

Gareth has previously lectured in Operations Management at Southampton Business School and at the University of Bath and has facilitated business improvement workshops throughout Europe. He has also worked as a research manager at a leading building materials market research consultancy.

His collaborative research has been presented at a number of international industry focused conferences including Euroma and Gerpisa, and has published in peer reviewed journals, books and multimedia formats for blended learning.

Academic qualifications

• MSc Management and Business Research, Open University
• BA (Hons) Management and Design Technology, University of Southampton.

Professional memberships

• SFHEA - Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Teaching specialism

• Information and Operations Management
• Enterprise and Entrepreneurship
• Organisational Transformation
• Business Environment.