Dr Paulina MacKrell
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Paulina joined the School in 2019 and leads postgraduate programmes. She develops and delivers a range of subjects across different courses, with a particular focus and expertise in Research Methods, Methodologies, Sustainability and Entrepreneurship. She is research active, and her research encompasses interdisciplinary studies, mainly concentrating on migration, development, globalisation, SMEs and sustainability. She is an active member of the Higher Education Academy. Paulina supervises postgraduate projects and dissertations in the areas of business, leadership, management and sustainability.
Paulina’s current responsibilities involve, but are not limited to course leadership on the MRes Programmes, developing, designing and delivering postgraduate programmes and modules, supervising research projects and dissertations across different programmes (DBA, MRes, MBA, MSc). She is research active and has a particular passion for conducting qualitative, in-depth research that can be used to expand and enrich our understanding of people’s perspectives, practices and decision-making. Her primary research interests focus on everyday lives, mobilities, motilities, migration and sustainability. Paulina is currently working on different forms of capital, in particular – motilities, and sustainable practices amongst SMEs.
Paulina has a long record of involvement in the industry working for national and international corporations, including Walt Disney World in Florida and having an ongoing dialogue with numerous organisations supporting sustainable development agenda and practices. Her academic experience began over a decade ago when she supported research on tourism and hospitality SMEs and their funding awareness in Lancashire. She then became a lecturer in International Tourism Resort Management and subsequently worked as a research assistant at Liverpool University. Whilst completing her PhD she continued to deliver on various (yet related) undergraduate programmes in Tourism, Management and Human Geography, supervise dissertations and continue with a range of research activities. Paulina helped in organisation and was a speaker in different national and international conferences, such as RGS-IBG London.
- Carbon Literacy Training, 2024
- PhD Human Geography, Keele University, 2019
- MA Research Methodologies Geographies of Globalisation and Development; Liverpool University, 2014
- PGCE Postgraduate Certificate in Education, Lancaster University, 2012
- BA Hons International Tourism Resort Management, Lancaster University, 2011
- RGS Research Group
- Oxford Compas
- Sustainable Development
- Oxford Migration studies Society
- Interdisciplinary Management and Enterprise Research
- Clarke, C.A., Mercer, C.E., and MacKrell, P.A. (2025) Value Hidden in Plain Sight –An Allied Health Professional Case Study in: Hepworth-Sawyer, R., Marrington, M.,Hall, J., and Beaumont E. (eds.). (2025) ‘Contemporary Enterprise andEntrepreneurship in Context’. Routledge: London
- Mackrell, P. (2019) Challenges of implementing policy and communication issues associated with the concept of valuing nature. Scholarship Review
- Mackrell, P. and Pemberton, S. (2018) New representations of rural space: Eastern European migrants and the denial of poverty and deprivation in the English countryside. Journal of Rural Studies
- Mackrell, P. Sustainability, public participation and the difference between theoretical paradigm and reality; HE Annual Learning and Teaching Conference 2019 (Sustainable Education); Lancaster U
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