Ms Vanessa Clarke

email: [email protected]

Tel: 0121 204 4428

Vanessa's research interests are in learning and development with a special interest in coaching.  

Vanessa is currently writing her thesis for her Professional Doctorate in Education (EdD) at BCU. Vanessa's doctoral candidacy and research experience has been significantly reshaped through the discovery of her own learning differences via a recent diagnosis of ADHD and her work explores the implications for learning and supervision support of adulthood diagnosis for the candidate, the course and the university. Vanessa's EdD thesis is an autoethographic study of the lived experience of professional doctoral candidacy of a female mid-career academic with late-diagnosis ADHD. 

Vanessa is an advocate for neurodivergent students, scholars and academics, and both her teaching and research harness her extensive experience and long-held passion for coaching to support those with learning differences to flourish in creative and compassionate ways.  

Team Coaching team entrepreneurs on the BSc Business Enterprise Development programme for the Centre of Enterprise, Coaching and Innovation. 

Module Leader for:

• BD007 Applied Research core module for the second year BSc (Hons) Business Enterprise Development programme.
• BD012 Business Enterprise Professional Practice 1 core module for the second year BSc (Hons) Business Enterprise Development team entrepreneurs.
• BD013 Business Enterprise Professional Practice 2 core module for the final year BSc (Hons) Business Enterprise Development team entrepreneurs. 
• BH2272 the Level 5 Team Effectiveness core module for second year BSc (Hons) Business & Management and BSc (Hons) Human Resource Management students, and option module for BSc (Hons) Business and HRM and BSc (Hons) Business IT & Computing courses. 

Vanessa also delivers the Help to Grow workshops for small to medium-sized businesses (SMEs) and supports delivery of the MBA leadership and high performance coaching modules.