Opinion Employability

From placement to project: making experiential learning a shared responsibility

Work placements and applied projects offer valuable experience. Research into online reflection highlights how business schools can support the conversations that help students make sense of what they learn.  What if students are gaining valuable experience on placements and projects, but have few chances to help each other make sense of what they encounter?

2nd November 2026

Fellows

Chartered ABS Fellowships are awarded to individuals who have made an outstanding and sustained contribution to our mission to provide support for the UK's business schools. Fellows are nominated from academia and from those we engage from fields such as industry and public policy.

Current and past Chartered ABS Fellows are:

  • Professor Georgina Andrews

  • Professor Sir George Bain

  • Dr Emm Barnes

  • The Lord Bilimoria of Chelsea, CBE, DL

  • Professor Robert Blackburn

  • Professor Alistair Bruce

  • Professor Pawan Budhwar

  • Professor Debashis Chatterjee 

  • Professor Julia Clarke

  • Professor Simon Collinson

  • Professor Sue Cox

  • Professor Dame Sandra Dawson

  • Janine Ellis

  • Professor Sally Everett CMBE

  • Professor Jerry Forrester

  • Professor Arthur Francis

  • Dr Andrew Glanfield

  • Joe Hall

  • Adam Harper

  • Professor Jane Harrington

  • Professor Mark Hart

  • Dr Maria Hussain CMBE

  • Professor Mike Jackson OBE

  • Merrill Jones

  • Sandra Kerr CBE

  • Anne Kiem OBE

  • Professor Angus Laing

  • Professor Debra Leighton

  • Professor Andy Lock

  • Professor Peter McKiernan

  • Professor Timothy Mescon

  • Helen Miller

  • Stuart Miller

  • Dr Cathy Minett-Smith

  • Professor Huw Morris

  • James Norman

  • Professor Michael Osbaldeston OBE

  • Michelle Ovens CBE

  • Professor Andrew Pettigrew

  • Ann Ridley

  • Professor John Saunders

  • Professor Adam Shore

  • Jonathan Slack

  • Professor David Sweeney CBE

  • Professor Howard Thomas

  • Professor Robin Wensley

  • Paula Whitehouse

  • Professor Jean Woodall

  • Professor Baback Yazdani

  • Rt Hon The Lord Young of Graffham CH

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Opinion Employability

From placement to project: making experiential learning a shared responsibility

Work placements and applied projects offer valuable experience. Research into online reflection highlights how business schools can support the conversations that help students make sense of what they learn.  What if students are gaining valuable experience on placements and projects, but have few chances to help each other make sense of what they encounter?

2nd November 2026
Opinion Dynamic Conversations

Why teamwork needs a meta-rubric

Most academics have heard versions of this complaint after a group project. We invest significant effort helping students understand what good academic work looks like through rubrics, exemplars and feedback. Yet when it comes to teamwork, we often assume students will simply work it out for themselves. However, that assumption is becoming increasingly difficult to justify.

28th October 2026
News

Notice of the Chartered ABS Annual General Meeting - Monday 9 November 2026 at 17:15

The 2026 Annual General Meeting of the Chartered Association of Business Schools will be held on Monday 9 November at 17:15, the first day of our Annual Conference, at the County Suite, Etc Venue, County Hall, Belvedere Rd, London SE1 7PB.

22nd October 2026