Senior Lecturer, Haaga-Helia UAS, Helsinki Finland. Research Area IPA & Organisational Behaviour

Senior lecturer and researcher, I am dedicated to supporting my students on their learning journeys. I teach students pursuing Bachelor and Master level studies. My subjects of expertise include Business Communication, Human Resource Management, Diversity Management, Organizational Behaviour and Communication, Academic Writing, Research methods. I counsel students during the thesis writing process, and I assess their theses. I also take part in curriculum development; I design and implement courses.

As a lecturer, I try to make the subject matter alive by engaging students in critical thinking, and deep understanding. I use innovative teaching methods to motivate students to discover and enjoy their learning. I am a qualitative researcher, interested in Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, and Narrative Analysis. My research topics include multicultural teamwork, reflexivity in learning, mentoring in education, facilitation of learning, AI in education, multicultural communication, cultural identities.

Publications / Presentations

Kimberley, A. (2020). Sensemaking and Identity Work in a Foreign Host Culture. Proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Research Methods, 18–19 June 2020, Aveiro, Portugal, ss. 352–360. DOI: 10.34190/ERM.20.046

Kimberley, A. (2020). Mirror, Mirror on the Wall…Through Storytelling to Reflexivity. In Proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Research Methods, 18–19 June 2020, Aveiro, Portugal, ss.132–138. DOI: 10.34190/ERM.20.028

Kimberley, A. (2019). Critical Reflective Practice as a Means to Encourage Critical Thinking, and Strengthen Confidence and Self-Efficacy of Undergraduate Business Students. International Journal of Arts and Sciences.

Kimberley, A. (2019). 'I Make Sense, Therefore I Am'. BAM2019 Conference Proceedings, Birmingham, United Kingdom, 3rd–5th September. https://www.bam.ac.uk/bam2019-proceedings

Kimberley, A., Stevens, L. & Rieple, A. (2018). Native Narratives: Making Sense of Living in a Different Culture. In European Conference on Research Methodology for Business and Management.

Kimberley, A. & Flak, O. (2018). Culture, Communication and Performance in Multi and MonoCultural Teams: Results of a Study Analysed by the System of Organisational Terms and Narrative Analysis. In Demartini, P. & Marchiori, M. (eds.). Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Research Methodology for Business and Management Studies, Rome, Italy, 12–13 July, 2018, 199–207.

Kimberley, A. (2017). Native Narratives: Hybrid Plots? Emergence of New Self in Multicultural Organisational Context. In Lawlor, K. & Buckely, A. P. (eds.). Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Research Methodology for Business and Management Studies.Dublin, Ireland, 22–23 June, 2017, 488–491.