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Dr Track Dinning

Liverpool Business School

Faculty of Business and Law

Email: T.M.Dinning@ljmu.ac.uk

Telephone: 0151 231 5278

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Dr Track Dinning is a member of the senior leadership team of Liverpool Business School, where she is the Associate Dean of Education and Head of Undergraduate programmes. Throughout her career at LJMU, Track has held various non-academic and management positions. Notably, she was the Business Development Manager for the University’s’ Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, where she found her interest and passion in connecting students with business and developed herself as an enterprise educator. Track’s role in the Business School is wide-reaching across a full range of undergraduate programmes, with the responsibility for the student experience, teaching enhancement and quality assurance.
With a background and passion specific to enterprise education and employability Track uses her entrepreneurial mindset to drive her work and lead change across the school, the institution, and sector. She has a keen interest to connect students with communities and business and she achieves this through student-led practice. In the Business School, Track has led the development of the Business Clinic that supports the curriculum through real-world consultancy modules and authentic assessment. Track regularly presents on practice based learning at national and international levels and recently hosted a Business Clinic Global Symposium in collaboration with the NCEE Global Alliance for its premier members.

Tracks passion for developing skills does not stop with students, as one of her most recent projects includes leading on the £600,000 LJMUs contribution to the European funded skills programme across the region. This project used extended networks to build a reputation for the delivery of skills development across the region and registered over 350 participants on the programme.

Tracks research has a focus on the intersection between entrepreneurship, employability, and teaching and learning, and has made demonstrable impact evidenced through her peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. She was submitted into REF 2021 to UoA23.

In 2024 Track gained Principal Fellowship status of the of Advance HE and have been a Certified Management and
Business Educator since 2020. Previously, she has been highly commended by the Enterprise Educator UK for her enterprise curriculum work, and internally been recognised through VC Awards, for her external engagement, teaching and learning, and role as a personal tutor.

Degrees

2020, Liverpool John Moores University, UK, PhD
2019, Columbia Business School, United States, Post Graduate Diploma
2008, Liverpool John Moores University, Unitied Kingdom, PGCert Learning and Teaching
1990, Sheffield University, United Kingdom, M.Medical Science
1989, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom, BSc(hons) Sport and Exercide Science

Certifications

2020, Chartered Association of Business School, Certified Management and Business Educator
2010, National Council for Graduate Enterprise, European Enterprise Programme
2009, National Council for Graduate Enteprise, International Enterprise Educators Programme

Academic appointments

Subject Leader, Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores university, 2020 - present
Programme Leader, Liverpool John Moores Univerisity, 2016 - 2020
Principal Lecturer: Student Enterprise and External Engagement, Liverpool John Moores University, 2010 - 2015

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