Gillian Pallis
CEPMLP Management Programmes Co-Ordinator, School Associate Dean Learning and Teaching
Gillian Pallis holds a first degree in Organisation Studies, MSc Analysis of Decision Processes and is presently completing a PhD exploring the employment relationship and coping strategies of high skilled, technology-based sales workers. Her early career concerned overseas operations management for large travel organisations including Thomson Holidays and the Laker Group. During this period Gillian was responsible for organising, co-ordinating and contracting pan-European transport and accommodation services. Later in her career, Gillian managed her own travel company based in Greece.
Building upon her industrial experience, Gillian has delivered and organised management education programmes over a period of fifteen years. She has taught postgraduate management programmes at the Universities of Edinburgh and Abertay. Appointed to the University of Dundee in 2005, she is the Programme Director for MBA (Life Science Industries) and presently extending her interests in technology organisation management within The Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law & Policy.
Research
Keenly focused upon executive and management development, Gillian's area of research concerns team and leadership development, the management of change, performance management and cross-boundary working.
Teaching
Management in Energy and Natural Resources Industries (On-Campus)
The aim of this module is to develop the student’s critical understanding and application of models, approaches and tools for the management of complex energy and natural resources organisations behaviours underpinning the practice of management in knowledge intensive organisations.