Dr Catherine Groves

Senior Lecturer in Marketing

Business

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Basic Welsh Speaker

Office 210 - 210
Second Floor
School of Management
Bay Campus

Available For Postgraduate Supervision

Research Links

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3539-8488

About

A Chartered Occupational Psychologist and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Catherine draws on over 20 years’ operational management experience to support her academic work. She remains involved in supporting and advising on the work of a number of social enterprises and charities locally. Her main areas of interest and research are in action learning, critical management, social enterprise and all things psychological. As an experienced coach, Catherine is particularly active in the area of leadership and team development, making innovative use of virtual reality technology to develop and enhance leadership competency in M level students. She is also a highly experienced psychometrician.

With personal experience of entrepreneurship, Catherine’s research interests include harnessing psychometrics, criticality and virtual reality for developing both leadership and employability in students, the role of psychological profiling in supporting and developing entrepreneurs, and improving diversity in the engineering education and workstream.

Catherine leads modules on undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes and supervises a number of PhD and DBA students.

Areas Of Expertise

Occupational psychology
SMEs
Entrepreneurship
Psychometrics
Executive coaching
Coaching
Team development
Critical Reflection
Action learning

Publications

Research Highlights

Groves, C. (2018). To infinity and beyond: Using virtual reality and critical reflection in teaching leadership to masters students.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa52844
Orbaek White, G., Xavier, P., & Groves, C. (2020). The Places They Will Go: What Happens When Engineering Students Critically Reflect. In 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access ProceedingsASEE Conferences.
https://doi.org/10.18260/1-2--35356, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa54810
https://peer.asee.org/35356
Xavier, P., Orbaek White, G., & Groves, C. (2019). Students exploring power and privilege in engineering design for sustainable community development. In Jane Andrews, Graeme Knowles, Robin Clark (Ed.), The proceedings of the 7th Annual Conference of the UK and Ireland Engineering Education Research Network (pp. 180-189).
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa54811
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/wmg/mediacentre/wmgevents/eern/
Groves, C. (2016). Reflections of a ‘late-career’ early-career researcher: an account of practice. Action Learning: Research and Practice, 13(2), 160-167.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14767333.2016.1170977, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa55720
ALKAKOUN, N., Boy, F., Groves, C., & Xavier, P. (2021). Priming Civil Engineers into Human-Centred Designing (and it's unexpected consequences). In ASEE 2021
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa57431
https://peer.asee.org/37600
Groves, C. (2021). Priming Civil Engineers into Human-Centred Designing (and its unexpected consequences). In 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60215
Groves, C. (2016). Reflections of a ‘late-career’ early-career researcher: an account of practice. Action Learning: Research and Practice, 13(2), 160-167.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14767333.2016.1170977, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60217
Groves, C. (2014). Contributing to a revival and a research agenda: The psychology of entrepreneurship.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa40830
Groves, C. (2015). Student accounts of learning on a DBA programme: Learning inaction.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa40829
Groves, C. (2016). The role of personality and motivation in entrepreneurial resilience. In British Psychological Society conference for the Division of Occupational PsychologyBritish Psychological Society conference for the Division of Occupational Psychology.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa40828

All Research

Journal Articles

Groves, C., Orbaek White, G., Panya, F., & Stewart, J. (2018). Can business schools increase student employability by embedding action learning into undergraduate management education? An account of practice. Action Learning: Research and Practice, 15(3), 258-266.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14767333.2018.1510631, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa40824
Groves, C. (2016). Reflections of a ‘late-career’ early-career researcher: an account of practice. Action Learning: Research and Practice, 13(2), 160-167.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14767333.2016.1170977, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa40827
Groves, C. (2016). Reflections of a ‘late-career’ early-career researcher: an account of practice. Action Learning: Research and Practice, 13(2), 160-167.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14767333.2016.1170977, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa55720
Groves, C. (2016). Reflections of a ‘late-career’ early-career researcher: an account of practice. Action Learning: Research and Practice, 13(2), 160-167.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14767333.2016.1170977, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60217
Groves, C. (2015). Student accounts of learning on a DBA programme: Learning inaction.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa40829

Conference Contributions

ALKAKOUN, N., Boy, F., Groves, C., & Xavier, P. (2021). Priming Civil Engineers into Human-Centred Designing (and it's unexpected consequences). In ASEE 2021
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa57431
https://peer.asee.org/37600
Groves, C. (2021). Priming Civil Engineers into Human-Centred Designing (and its unexpected consequences). In 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60215
Orbaek White, G., Xavier, P., & Groves, C. (2020). The Places They Will Go: What Happens When Engineering Students Critically Reflect. In 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access ProceedingsASEE Conferences.
https://doi.org/10.18260/1-2--35356, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa54810
https://peer.asee.org/35356
Xavier, P., Orbaek White, G., & Groves, C. (2019). Students exploring power and privilege in engineering design for sustainable community development. In Jane Andrews, Graeme Knowles, Robin Clark (Ed.), The proceedings of the 7th Annual Conference of the UK and Ireland Engineering Education Research Network (pp. 180-189).
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa54811
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/wmg/mediacentre/wmgevents/eern/
Groves, C. (2018). To infinity and beyond: Using virtual reality and critical reflection in teaching leadership to masters students.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa52844
Groves, C. (2016). The role of personality and motivation in entrepreneurial resilience. In British Psychological Society conference for the Division of Occupational PsychologyBritish Psychological Society conference for the Division of Occupational Psychology.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa40828
Groves, C. (2016). Assessing entrepreneurs: is it possible to pick a winner?. In BPS Division of Occupational Psychology conferenceBPS Division of Occupational Psychology conference.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa40825
Groves, C. (2014). Contributing to a revival and a research agenda: The psychology of entrepreneurship.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa40830

Other Research Outputs

Groves, C. (2016). Harry Potter and the scholar-practitioner
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa40826
http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/4747/3/Harry%20Potter%20and%20the%20Scholar-Practitioner.pdf

Supervision

A Behavioural Approach to Develop Sustainability Leadership : Exploring Personal and Industrial Influences on Saudi Engineers in Saudi Arabia's Manufacturing Sector (awarded 2024)

PhD

Other supervisor: Dr Vasileios Samaras

Other supervisor: Dr Frederic Boy

Other supervisor: Dr Clare Wood
Raising critical consciousness in engineering education: a critical exploration of Transformative possibilities in engineering education and research (awarded 2023)

PhD

Other supervisor: Dr Elaine Forde

Other supervisor: Prof David Worsley

Other supervisor: Dr Patricia Xavier
Priming and Mining the Civil Engineering Mindset: how personal values and perfectionism shape societal engagement and consideration in design (awarded 2023)

PhD

Other supervisor: Dr Frederic Boy

Other supervisor: Dr Patricia Xavier

Taught Modules

MN-3516 Marketing Ethics

This module will explore a range of ethical issues in marketing theory and practice. Specifically, the module will examine issues concerning the ethics of markets and marketing, ethical marketing and decision-making, ethical consumption and the ethics of consumption, power relationships between producers and consumers, as well as ethical philosophy and frameworks that facilitate the analysis of ethical issues in marketing.
MN-M032 Marketing in Society

Understanding and appreciating the ethical dilemmas associated with business is an important dimension of marketing strategy. This module explores the key area of marketing in society and considers the importance of key ethical issues in marketing in the context of today¿s environment of corporate social responsibility, and the triple bottom line. The key focus is on the societal and ethical responsibilities of the modern day marketing organisation and how organisations can better equip themselves to deal with ethical marketing dilemmas. This module will explore a range of ethical issues in marketing theory and practice. Specifically, the module will examine issues concerning the ethics of markets and marketing, ethical marketing and decision-making, ethical consumption and the ethics of consumption, power relationships between producers and consumers, as well as ethical philosophy and frameworks that facilitate the analysis of ethical issues in marketing.

Dr Catherine Groves

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Welsh language proficiency

Research Links

About

Areas Of Expertise

Publications

Research Highlights

All Research

Journal Articles

Conference Contributions

Other Research Outputs

Supervision

A Behavioural Approach to Develop Sustainability Leadership : Exploring Personal and Industrial Influences on Saudi Engineers in Saudi Arabia's Manufacturing Sector (awarded 2024)

Raising critical consciousness in engineering education: a critical exploration of Transformative possibilities in engineering education and research (awarded 2023)

Priming and Mining the Civil Engineering Mindset: how personal values and perfectionism shape societal engagement and consideration in design (awarded 2023)

Taught Modules

MN-3516 Marketing Ethics

MN-M032 Marketing in Society