Mary Ann Kernan

Overview

In 2020-21, Mary Ann was appointed Professor of Creative Practice, Department of English, School of Arts and Social Sciences. She served as the School's Associate Dean (Student Experience) in 2017-21. She served as a Panel Member for the Office for Students in the 2018 and 2019 Subject TEF Pilots, and chaired City's TEF Steering Group.

A founding member of the executive board for the University's Centre for Creativity in Professional Practice, which was launched in 2009 and is based at the Beyes Business School, Mary Ann leads the ‘Creativity and the Creative Industries’ module for the interdisciplinary Masters in Innovation, Creativity and Leadership. She continues to teach on City's Publishing MAs, which she led from 2006-17. She drew on the consistent success of these programmes in the design of City's BA English, launched in 2016-17, which also combines research excellence with modules and assignments which inform and support the students' career aspirations.

Mary Ann serves as both an External Examiner and External Validator. She represented the Association of Publishing Education as a panel member to redefine the National Occupational Standards for Publishing in 2012. Her research has two strands: publishing history, with a special focus on academic publishing and the impact of digitisation; and pedagogical research focused on the role and impact of experiential and arts-based learning in professional and management education. She is a former Director of Methuen & Co Ltd and Deputy Publisher, Routledge.

Qualifications

• MSc Research Methods, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom, Sep 2002 – Jul 2006
• BA Hons (Modern History), University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Oct 1973 – May 1976

Employment

• Professor of Creative Practice, City University London, London, Aug 2020 – present
• Associate Professor, City University London, London, Sep 2016 – Apr 2021

Teaching

Modules

MA in Publishing
MA in International Publishing
Masters in Innovation, Creativity and Leadership

Mary Ann's research interests include the commercial and technological history of publishing's responses to globalisation and digitisation; the pedagogy of publishing programmes for transferable outcomes and employability; the UK industry's employment practices as a creative industry; and management education and development processes which include creative practices drawn from the arts. In 2012-13 she acted as Principal Investigator for Equip (Equality in Publishing), a £70,000 research project sponsored by Arts Council England, which in 2014 moved to the joint management of the Publishers Association and the Independent Publishers Guild.
Her recent publications include:
Kernan, M.A. (2013) Routledge as a global publisher: a case study 1980–2010, Publishing Research Quarterly; 29(1): 52–72.
Kernan, M.A. (2013) When is a publishing business truly 'global'? An analysis of a Routledge case study with reference to Ohmae's Theory of Globalization, Publishing Research Quarterly; 29(4), 344–64..
Holtham, C, Kernan, MA, Owens, A and Pässilä, A (2013) Accelerating movement across the intentional arc – developing the strategic sensographer, Conference Proceedings, 8th International Conference in Critical Management Studies, University of Manchester (10 July 2013) [Online]. Available: Publications [11 October 2013].

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