Dr Track Dinning
Liverpool Business School
Faculty of Business and Law
Email: T.M.Dinning@ljmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0151 231 5278
Dr Track Dinning is a member of the senior leadership team of Liverpool Business School, where she is the Associate Dean of Education and Head of Undergraduate programmes. Throughout her career at LJMU, Track has held various non-academic and management positions. Notably, she was the Business Development Manager for the University’s’ Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, where she found her interest and passion in connecting students with business and developed herself as an enterprise educator. Track’s role in the Business School is wide-reaching across a full range of undergraduate programmes, with the responsibility for the student experience, teaching enhancement and quality assurance.
With a background and passion specific to enterprise education and employability Track uses her entrepreneurial mindset to drive her work and lead change across the school, the institution, and sector. She has a keen interest to connect students with communities and business and she achieves this through student-led practice. In the Business School, Track has led the development of the Business Clinic that supports the curriculum through real-world consultancy modules and authentic assessment. Track regularly presents on practice based learning at national and international levels and recently hosted a Business Clinic Global Symposium in collaboration with the NCEE Global Alliance for its premier members.
Tracks passion for developing skills does not stop with students, as one of her most recent projects includes leading on the £600,000 LJMUs contribution to the European funded skills programme across the region. This project used extended networks to build a reputation for the delivery of skills development across the region and registered over 350 participants on the programme.
Tracks research has a focus on the intersection between entrepreneurship, employability, and teaching and learning, and has made demonstrable impact evidenced through her peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. She was submitted into REF 2021 to UoA23.
In 2024 Track gained Principal Fellowship status of the of Advance HE and have been a Certified Management and
Business Educator since 2020. Previously, she has been highly commended by the Enterprise Educator UK for her enterprise curriculum work, and internally been recognised through VC Awards, for her external engagement, teaching and learning, and role as a personal tutor.
Degrees
2020, Liverpool John Moores University, UK, PhD
2019, Columbia Business School, United States, Post Graduate Diploma
2008, Liverpool John Moores University, Unitied Kingdom, PGCert Learning and Teaching
1990, Sheffield University, United Kingdom, M.Medical Science
1989, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom, BSc(hons) Sport and Exercide Science
Certifications
2020, Chartered Association of Business School, Certified Management and Business Educator
2010, National Council for Graduate Enterprise, European Enterprise Programme
2009, National Council for Graduate Enteprise, International Enterprise Educators Programme
Academic appointments
Subject Leader, Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores university, 2020 - present
Programme Leader, Liverpool John Moores Univerisity, 2016 - 2020
Principal Lecturer: Student Enterprise and External Engagement, Liverpool John Moores University, 2010 - 2015
Highlighted publications
Dinning T. 2019. Articulating entrepreneurial competencies in the undergraduate curricular Education and Training, 61 :432-444 DOI Publisher Url
Dinning TM. 2018. Assessment of Entrepreneurship in Higher Education: An evaluation of current practices and proposals for increasing authenticity Compass: Journal of Learning and Teaching, 11 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Dinning TM. 2017. Preparing sport graduates for employment: satisfying employers expectations Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 7 :354-368 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Dinning T. 2017. Embedding employability and enterprise skills in sport degrees through a focused work - based project; a student and employer viewpoint Ünlü H. Cogent Education, 4 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Dinning TM, Brown S. 2016. Fostering learning for capability and assessing authentically: a vision for Enterprise Education Winkel D. Experiential Entrepreneurship Exercises Journal, 1 Public Url
Dinning TM. 2015. Dispelling the Myth of How to Develop Enterprise/Entrepreneurship Skills in University Students: A Staff Perception Study Creative Education, 6 :1584-1596 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Dinning TM. 2013. Successes and Challenges of Developing Entrepreneurial Skills within the curriculum in Higher Education Innovations in Practice, 8 :115-128
Dinning TM. 2010. Sport Start: Creating a model to enhance student employibility through employer engagment CETL Journal: Innovations in Practice, 2 Publisher Url
Report
Dinning TM, Brown J, McGrath L, Nichol T, Shore A, Nixon S. 2024. Developing Global Best Practice for Business Clinics at Universities: Practice guidance report Publisher Url Public Url
Skritsovali K, Hindley A, Collins H, Wall T, Dinning T, Jolliffe P. 2022. PRME Sharing Information on Progress Report PRME Sharing Information on Progress Report Publisher Url
Internet publication
Wolstencroft P, Dinning TM. 2024. Sticking Together: How Glue Guys Work in Education Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Wolstencroft P, Whitfield E, Dinning TM. 2023. Convergence in the English and French education systems: Vive la difference! Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Dinning TM, Wolstencroft P. 2023. It takes two: Co-leadership in British higher education Publisher Url Public Url
Wolstencroft P, Whitfield E, Dinning TM. 2022. But what do the numbers say? How the movement towards datafication might change English higher education Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Journal article
Wolstencroft P, Whitfield E, Dinning TM. 2023. A tale of two objectives: The challenge of meeting diverse targets in UK Business School PRISM:Casting New Light on Learning, Theory & Practice, DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Shore A, Dinning T. 2023. Developing student's skills and work readiness: an experiential learning framework Journal of Work-Applied Management, DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Dinning T. 2019. Articulating entrepreneurial competencies in the undergraduate curricular Education and Training, 61 :432-444 DOI Publisher Url
Walsh BA, Dinning TM, Money J, Money S, Maher A. 2018. Supporting reasonable adjustments for learners with disabilities in physical education: An investigation into teacher’s perceptions of one online tool Cogent Education, DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Dinning TM. 2018. Assessment of Entrepreneurship in Higher Education: An evaluation of current practices and proposals for increasing authenticity Compass: Journal of Learning and Teaching, 11 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Dinning TM. 2017. Preparing sport graduates for employment: satisfying employers expectations Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 7 :354-368 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Dinning T. 2017. Embedding employability and enterprise skills in sport degrees through a focused work - based project; a student and employer viewpoint Ünlü H. Cogent Education, 4 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Morley D, Maher A, Walsh BA, Dinning TM, Lloyd D, Pratt A. 2017. Making reasonable adjustments for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities: pre-service teachers' perceptions of an online support research British journal of Special Education., 44 :203-219 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Money J, Nixon S, Tracy FE, Hennessy C, Ball E, Dinning TM. 2017. Undergraduate student expectations of university in the United Kingdom: What really matters to them? Cogent Education, 4 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Money J, Dinning TM, Nixon S, Walsh BA, Magill C. 2016. Co- Creating a Blended learning Curriculum in Transition to Higher Education: A Student Viewpoint. Creative Education, 7 :1205-1213 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Dinning TM, Brown S. 2016. Fostering learning for capability and assessing authentically: a vision for Enterprise Education Winkel D. Experiential Entrepreneurship Exercises Journal, 1 Public Url
Dinning TM, Maghill CA, Money J, Walsh B, Nixon S. 2016. Can a blended learning approach enhance students transition into higher education? A study to explore perception , engagement and progression. International Journal of Advancement in Education and Social Science, 3 :1-7 Public Url
Dinning TM. 2015. Dispelling the Myth of How to Develop Enterprise/Entrepreneurship Skills in University Students: A Staff Perception Study Creative Education, 6 :1584-1596 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Dinning TM. 2013. Successes and Challenges of Developing Entrepreneurial Skills within the curriculum in Higher Education Innovations in Practice, 8 :115-128
Dinning TM. 2013. Sucesses and challenges of developing entrepreneurial skills within the curriculum in higher education. CETL Journal Innovation in Practice, 8
Dinning TM. 2010. Sport Start: Creating a model to enhance student employibility through employer engagment CETL Journal: Innovations in Practice, 2 Publisher Url
Beattie I, Dinning TM, Williams L. 2008. Continuing the Sport Development spirit using P2P networking as the catalyst. CETL Journal: Innovations in Practice, 1
Dinning TM. Staff perceptions to enterprise / entrepreneurship education: Pedagogies, benefits and barriers
Dinning T, Nixon S, Williams L, Brown J. Campus to Career: a graduate perspective on the usefulness of their degree. Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning,
Editorial/letter to the editor
Dinning T, Djebali Z, Hurd F, Dyer S. 2023. Editorial: The 3 Es – education, environment and entrepreneurial flair Journal of Work-Applied Management, 15 :170-172 DOI Publisher Url
Chapters
Wolstencroft P, Dinning TM. 2023. Leading a large and disparate school in higher education Outhwaite DEBORAH, Simon CATHERINE. Leadership and Management for Education Studies Taylor & Francis 9781003321439 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Brown J, Dinning T, Wall T, Shore A. Putting Sustainability Theory into Practice – Developing Networking & Consultancy Opportunities in the Curriculum to Create Real Value Add Wall T, Leal W, Trevisan L, Shore A. Sustainability in Business Education, Research and Practices DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Brown J, Dinning T, Wall T. Developing Entrepreneurial Sustainability Thinking and Action at ‘The World Café’ Wall T, Leal W, Trevisan L, Shore A. Sustainability in Business Education, Research and Practices DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Agboma F, Govender IG, Dinning T. Reimagining Business Clinic Outcome and Impact Assessment Through a Sustainability Lens Wall T. The Elgar Companion to Management Education and the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Conference publication
Shore A, Dinning TM. 2022. Experiential learning: using live projects as a conduit for civic engagement and 'clinical' business practice ISBE Conference Proceedings, ISBE 2022 Publisher Url Public Url
Dinning TM. 'Making things happen’ in an enterprising way Teaching and Learning Conference, Liverpool John Moores University
Dinning TM. SPORT START: Giving Students a Start in the World of Work. E-Evolve Enhancing Employability Conference
Dinning TM, Magill C, Money J, Walsh B, Nixon J. Doing things differently: Blended learning AfPE ITTE Conference
Dinning TM, Magill C, Money J, Walsh B, Nixon S. Blended learning activities to support the transition process European First Experience Conference
Dinning TM, Magill C, Money J, Walsh B, Nixon S. Student perceptions of a blended learning approach to their first five weeks at university Teaching and Learning Conference
Dinning TM. Enterprise Education in Universitues-presentation of a case study International Enterprise Educators Conference
Dinning TM, Crehan E, Schofield C, Hookham-Williams C. Battleship : A Business plan model International Enterprise Educators Conference
Dinning T. Nurturing entrepreneurship education: Towards a multidisciplinary approach
Brown J, Agboma F, Dinning T, Omuso B. Developing a Business Clinic Approach: collaborative work and value creation Student experience proceedings, Students at the Heart Publisher Url
Thesis/Dissertation
Dinning TM. 2019. A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF APPROACHES TO EMBEDDING ENTERPRISE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN HIGHER EDUCATION CURRUCULA: TOWARDS AN UBIQUITOUS PARADIGM Nixon S. Public Url
Fellowships:
National Centre for Entrepreneurial Education, Fellow of Entrepreneurial Leadership. 2025
Advance HE (formally Higher Education Academy), Principal Fellow. 2024
Chartered Association of Business Schools, Certified Business and Management Educator. 2020
Advance HE (formally HEA), Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. 2012
National Council for Enterprise Education, Fellow of the National Council of Enterprise Education. 2008
Higher Education Academy, Fellow of the HEA. 2005
Award:
LJMU, VC Award Research and Knowledge Exchange. 2024
PICCASO Privacy, InfoSec, Culture, Change, Awareness, Societal, Organisation. Awarded to LJMU for a student led project., PICCASO Privacy European Awards : Bridging the privacy and security gap, https://www.piccasoprivacyawards.com/. 2023
Liverpool John Moores university, VC Teaching and Learning Award of Excellence. 2016
Liverpool Students Union, The Amazing Tutor of the Year Award. 2014
LJMU, Vice Chancellor Award of Excellence. 2014
Enterprise Educators UK, Enterprise Educator of the Year - Highly Commended. 2011
Research Grants Awarded:
Duration of research project: 7 months, Grant value (£): 30,000, British Council- Malaysian consortium, Dr Farrah Robert, Developing a model for transnational business clinic collaboration and competition. 2024
Duration of research project: 3, Grant value (£): £580,000, European Social Investment Fund, Principal Investigator: Dr Adam Shore, Enterprise Hub Skills. 2023
Duration of research project: 12 months, Grant value (£): 5000, Lawn Tennis Association, Continuation of the university tennis programme. 2018
Duration of research project: 2 years, Grant value (£): £10,000, Tennis Foundation, University Tennis. 2015
Duration of research project: 2 years, Grant value (£): £142,000, Equality and Human Rights Commission, Dr Phil Vickerman and Dr Barbara Walsh, Raising Attainment in Disabled Children. 2014
Grant value (£): £20,000, Lawn Tennis Association, University Tennis Coordinator. 2012
Grant value (£): £3200, Sport England, Tom Flectcher, Sportivate. 2011
External collaboration:
External Examiner appointment, Northumbria University. 2024
Other invited event:
London: online, NCEE’s Global Alliance of Entrepreneurial University is a voice for entrepreneurial universities. The Regional Advisory Group will help to foster new collaboration in your own locality, whilst leveraging global knowledge exchange and innovation across the regions we operate - Africa, Asia, China, Europe, Middle East and North Africa, and the UK., NCEE Global Alliance of Entrepreneurial Universities: Regional Advisory Group. 2024
London, Invited to speak at the event to a delegation from several Chinese universities, Launch of NCEE Global Alliance Membership - China. 2023
Seoul, South Korea, Invited to speak to various organisations and collages regarding study 'Sport at LJMU', International study in the UK. 2018
Liverpool John Moores University, The presentation covered my personal journey and top tips of how I have started to develop a research profile over the past 3 years, Publish my Pedaggoy. 2017
Liverpool, Invited to speak at a Enterprise Educators development programme on my experiences as an enterprise educator, Enterprise Educators Development Programme. 2013
Manchester Metropolitan University, Presented on the impact of the IEEP course to potential new delegates, International Enteprise Educators Programme. 2012
Manchester Met University, Invited to speak at a Enterprise Educators development programme on my experiences as an enterprise educator, Enterprise Educators Development Programme. 2012
HEA: London, Following a brief presenation on the subject, led a discussion forum: Title 'Sport start an enterpriseing model of engagment for students and stakeholder', Higher Education Academy Employibility Good Pratcise Event. 2009
Conference presentation:
Oral presentation, Liverpool, Students at the Heart Conference, Privacy and digital wellbeing. 2024
Oral presentation, LJMU, Students at the Heart Conference, Skill Up: Leadership and Enterprise (2023). 2023
Oral presentation, LJMU, Students at the Heart Conference, Privacy, Digital Security Wellness and Awareness – A collaborative project with Screen, Business and Law students. 2023
Oral presentation, ICC Wales, Learning, Teaching Student Experience, Business Clinics as the intersection of student and business impact:: developing an evidence - based agenda. 2023
Oral presentation, York, Institute of Small Business and Enterprise Conference, Experiential learning: using live projects as a conduit for civic engagement and ‘clinical’ business practice. 2022
Oral presentation, Liverpool, LJMU Teaching and Learning Conference, Employability :Infused. 2022
Oral presentation, Liverpool, Liverpool John Moores University Teaching and Learning Conference, Are you hungry? The Enterprise tapas: developing entrepreneurial students through innovative curriculum design. 2019
Oral presentation, Leed Beckett University, International Enterprise Educators Conference, Developing an approach to embedding enterprise in the curriculum: landscape, approaches and principles through research and practice. 2018
Oral presentation, Liverpool John Moores University, LJMU Teaching and Learning Conference, The Enterprise Tapas (2018). 2018
Oral presentation, Leeds, International Enterprise Educators Conference, Developing an approach to embedding enterprise in the curriculum: landscape, approaches and principles through research and practice. 2018
Oral presentation, LJMU, LJMU Teaching and Learning Conference 2016, Teaching strategies to engage learners (2016). 2016
Other Professional Activity:
Invited talk at the Entrepreneurial Leaders International Programme, to senior academics from universities across Singapore.. 2024
Invited talk and workshop: Invited talk to over 200 Tunisian Academic leaders Part of an invited expert delegation for the Tunisian Ministry for Higher Education and Scientific Research to develop entrepreneurial universities.. 2024
Invitation to speak and deliver a workshop: Entrepreneurial curriculum development: how to embed entrepreneurial thinking. Shandong vocational colleges network, July 2022. China.. 2022
Invitation to speak: Entrepreneurship developments in Higher Education, with a focus on experiential learning, 6th annual EDHE Lekgotla, July, 2022. Gqeberha, SA.. 2022
Co- lead on the Enterprise Skills Hub. European Social Funded project. 2021
Conference organisation:
Lead and developer of the symposium and collaboration with the NCEE, Global Business Clinic Symposium. 2024
External committees:
Regnerus - Social Enterprise, Trustee, Board of Trustees. 2024
Business in the Community, Board Member, NW Leadership Board, https://www.bitc.org.uk/. 2023
Healthiness Ltd, Steering group member 2014 - 2018 Director from 2019, Healthiness Steering Group, http://healthinessltd.co.uk/. 2014
British University Collage Sport (BUCS), HEI Representative, British University Collage Sport (BUCS) - North West Region, http://www.bucs.org.uk/homepage.asp. 2009
A collaboration of schools, business and HEIs, Board member, Childwall Fiveways Trust.
Editorial boards:
Guest Editor, Journal of Work-Applied Management, https://ddec1-0-en-ctp.trendmicro.com/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.emeraldgrouppublishing.com%2fcalls-for-papers%2fentrepreneurial-learning-21st-century-frameworks-competences-and-futures&umid=350a245c-649c-42b7-9e17-dc00918a5007&auth=6b639a990a359ff1d6cc8761081d57748ce3c81e-65d5640838107ae9a7d585539c7fec9fe00d9941. 2023
Industrial connections:
Business in the Community, Lead on the partnership with BiTC for Liverpool Business School. 2021
Business in the Community, https://www.bitc.org.uk/. 2020
England Athletics, Athlete -fit. 2014
Equality and Human Rights Commission, Raising participation and attainment in disabled children in school. 2014
Rugby Union, Student Ambassador Programme. 2014
England Badminton, No Strings badminton Project developed as part of the sport development curriculum. 2012
Insitute of Swimming and the ASA, Tutor on the IOS National Teaching Plan for Teachers Programme. 2012
Tennis Foundation and the LTA, Students Tennis Coordinator Programme This is a three year project. Funding secured to employ a University tennis coordinator. 2012
English Lacrosse, Set up a temporary liverpool development officers post to support Lacrosse development in Liverpool . This was a students role and was part of testing new models of working with organisations. This project more recently has been re launched for 2014. 2007
Liverpool City Council, Developed projects to support LCC delivery of sport across the city. Supported programmes such as , sports links, street games, merseyside youth games. 2006
Liverpool School Sport Partnership, Delivered projects to support the LSSP deliver of sport across Liverpool school. Projects include active playtime, afterschool clubs, and provision of sports coaches. 2006
County Sport Partnership - Merseyside Sport, Development of sport related project linking sports governing bodies to the student workforce. 2005
Membership of professional bodies:
Chartered Association of Business Schools, Certified Management and Business Educator, https://charteredabs.org/cmbe/. 2020
European Association of Sport Management, European Association of Sport Management, http://www.easm.net/. 2019
The Higher Education Academy, Member of The Higher Education Academy, http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/. 2005
The Chartered Institute of Management, Sport and Physical Activity, Member of The Chartered Institute of Management, Sport and Physical Activity, http://www.cimspa.co.uk/. 2000
Teaching qualification:
Post Graduate Cerificate in Learning, Teaching and Assessment. 2008
Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education - Learning & Teaching in Higher Education. 2005