Dr Nicola Palmer has worked in Higher Education for over 25 years and in Doctoral Programmes Management for over 15 years. She is an experienced Business School Doctoral Supervisor who, to date, has supervised 19 doctoral candidates to completion and examined over 20 candidates.
She was one of the first doctoral supervisors to achieve UKCGE Research Supervisor Recognition and has won an Inspirational Research Supervisor award for her practice.
Nicola served on the ESRC-initiated Northern Advanced Research Training Initiative (NARTI) Board 2014–2017 and the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) Doctoral Programmes Committee 2016–2022. She is an academic based in the Doctoral School at Sheffield Hallam University and the School for Business & Society at the University of York and is a Visiting Associate Professor on the UCL DBA Health programme.
Nicola is involved in the delivery of Research England funded projects on postgraduate research race equity and the transformation of doctoral supervision. She recently co-authored a book on Business and Management Doctorates World-Wide. Developing the Next Generation ( 2024 – Emerald Publishing). She has published on the themes of governance, sustainability, visitor economy, and community development.
Nicola is keen to supervise doctoral students with an interest in ecotourism and community-based tourism development and studies that address United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals using qualitative and/or quantitative research methods.
