At Aston I am the module leader for the two Business and Finance for Managers modules for postgraduate students and also contribute to several other modules.
I am also the Academic Supervisor of our Associate, Krishna Balthu in a Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Higgs and Sons Solicitors based in Stourbridge. I won a small Higher Education Academy Business Accounting and Finance grant in 2011 for the ETHAI project to look at academic integrity and ethical behaviours in business schools and several of my colleagues are co-investigating this with me.
My background is in project finance and a former career as a banker in the UK and overseas, financing large complex projects and solving associated problems and moving from commercial banking through investment banking to direct equity and mezzanine investments and lending.
I have designed and delivered courses in corporate finance to senior managers and at a number of universities in the UK and overseas, and set up a financial modelling software company with my business partner. This part of my life grew in to a consulting business, solving problems and even restructuring industries in different countries.
I completed my PhD at Cranfield on firm survival in the UK onshore oil and gas industry. I also hold a Masters degree in Online and Distance Learning from the Open University. This led to a fulltime job in academia, where I have taught, examined (internally and externally), written teaching materials and developed audio-visual support for face to face and on line teaching. My first degree is in Chemistry from UMIST, and I hold an MBA from Manchester Business School, where I was awarded the Conoco Oil Fellowship and the David Blank Scholarship.
I joined Aston following a role at another university where I was the Head of Ethics and Governance for a large Faculty, a Teaching Development Fellow, and I ran the core Research Methods module for research degree students, as well as an innovative Leadership module using psychometrics to develop self knowledge.
My interests include project finance and the psychology of major investment decisions, as well as firm survival.
Other Professional Development Courses:
- Introduction to Counselling
- Prince 2 Professional
- MBTI Extended Type
- Firo B
- Type Dynamics Indicator
- ABS Development Programme for Directors of Teaching and Learning
- Level B Plus in Occupational Testing of the British Psychological Society (16PF5 and MBTI)
- Level A BPS.
Employment
- Coventry University: 2006-2010
Faculty of Business, Environment & Society, Head of Ethics and Governance/PL-Teaching Development Fellow /SL- Strategy & Applied Management/Program Manager PT MBA.
- Project Planning and Management Ltd, London. 1992-date. Director.
- Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedfordshire, UK, 1999-2005
Visiting Lecturer, Project Finance, Project Management Group. Programme Manager /Consultant, CCED (Executive Education Group).
- Open University Business School, Open University, Milton Keynes, 1992-date Associate Lecturer and course author; Intranet conference moderator and monitor; mentoring roles for new tutors; consultant to MBA US versioning team; Exam script marker.
- Henley Management College, Reading University,1993-2008, MBA Finance and Accounting Module. Tutor and member of the former Finance and Accounting Research Group.
- University of Limerick, Ireland, 2003. Visiting Lecturer in Strategy.
- Imperial College, London, 1992. Visiting Lecturer in Corporate Finance
During my City career, I worked for PIC Capital Group in London as a Director; EBC AMRO Bank Ltd, (formerly European Banking Corporation, in London and briefly in Australia as an Assistant Director; InterFirst Bank Dallas NA in London as an Assistant Vice-President; AEIBC (American Express), based in New York. but internationally as an Assistant Treasurer/Internal Auditor for Europe-Middle East and Bank of America NT & SA in London. and within the EMEA Division, starting off as a Ship Lending Officer.
Teaching activity
Research interests
- Project Finance
- Decision Making
- Institutional theory
- Field Configuration Events
- Organizational survival and performance
- Complex systems in education.
Recent research funding
- 2008-2009: Principal Investigator, JISC REPRODUCE programme: ROCOCO – research methods content re-use, £25,000 external funding.
- 2009 Case Participant in LLiDA JISC project (PI was at Glasgow Caledonian)
Membership of Professional Bodies
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Commerce and Industry
- Member of the Association for Project Management
- Member of the Energy Institute (ex Council member)
- Member of the Strategic Management Society
- Member of the Academy of Management
- Member of British Academy of Management.
Selected publications
Co-Authored Books
- Project Finance (working title) With Professor Roger Mills of VU, Amsterdam/Emeritus Professor, University of Reading.
Chapters in Books
- de Nahlik, C. F. (2008) “Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Performance Management: an Academic Contribution”, in Holloway, J. & Thorpe, R. (eds) “Performance Measurement in Practice” London: Palgrave
- de Nahlik, C. F. (1992). Project Finance. In: Rutterford, J. & Montgomerie, R. R. (eds) Handbook of UK Corporate Finance, 2nd edition, London: Butterworths.
Journal Articles
Abbad, M. M., Morris, D. & de Nahlik, C.F. (2008)
“Looking under the Bonnet: Factors Affecting Student Adoption of E-Learning Systems in Jordan”. The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, Vol 10, No 2 (2009), ISSN: 1492-3831.
Conference Proceedings
- de Nahlik, C.F. (2010) ” The Postcards Project” Workshop given at Equity in Higher Education Evidence-Net conference, Nottingham, January 2010.
- Aydin, I & de Nahlik, C.F. (2009). “Was it worth it? An exploratory case study of the perceptions of field (re) configuring events.” BAM, September 2009.
- Beech, JG & de Nahlik, CF (2009). “When Harry met Sally: can a “bricolage” approach integrate with a systems-informed modular design?” ALT C, September, 2009
- de Nahlik, C.F. (2008). Key note speaker address: “Same chassis, different module – leveraging common core content in a research methods module”. Cranfield University Annual Teaching and Learning Conference (2nd July, 2007, Cranfield University).
- de Nahlik, C.F. (2007). “Knowing me, knowing you: the issues surrounding implementation of peer assessment in executive education programmes”. International Pedagogies, 2007. Emergent Pedagogies track.
- de Nahlik, C.F. (2007). “Partners Please? Can we easily reconcile partner selection, contracts and perceptions in Inter-Organisational Relationships?” British Academy of Management, 2007. Inter-Organisational Relations Track.
Contributions to Conferences
- Track Chair. Multiple Perspectives in Decision-making Track, European Group for Organisation Studies, Annual Conference, Berlin, July, 2005.
Broadcasts/Teaching materials
- Co authored new unit on SVA/Mergers and Acquisitions for new Masters in Finance course for the Open University (2005/6)
- Created new interactive online e-learning support material for in-house Cranfield Executive Education clients on Decision-making for Large Projects and Contracting. (2004)
- Devised, scripted and edited a video on Valuation and an audio on Venture Capital (1996).
Book Reviews
- Chapman, C. & Ward, S. (2002) “Managing Project Risk and Uncertainty: a constructively simple approach to decision making” reviewed for European Association for Decision-Making Newsletter, (published September/November 2005).
- Armstrong, J. Scott (2001) (ed) “Principles of Forecasting” reviewed for European Association for Decision-Making Newsletter, (published January, 2003).
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