Staff profile
| Affiliation | Telephone |
|---|---|
| Temporary Staffing Service Manager in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Health |
Biography
A Durham alum with a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology, Adam works flexibly across the institution’s academic departments and faculties as Temporary Staffing Service Manager. Here, Adam is responsible for ensuring a fair distribution of the service’s support provision across the University’s four faculties and oversees the deployment of staff into local teams to support short-term resource needs when they arise. Alongside managing the team, Adam also covers specified Grade 7 administrative roles, duties, and projects where required to ensure business needs are met and that high-quality educational, operational, and research services are delivered.
During his time in the service, Adam has fulfilled various roles in over 10 departments and all four faculties including: Assistant Institute Manager (Communications); Departmental Coordinator; Faculty Administrator; Faculty Learning and Teaching Coordinator; Learning and Teaching Administrator; Learning and Teaching Coordinator; Learning and Teaching Manager; NINE Doctoral Training Partnership Coordinator; Postgraduate Research (PGR) Coordinator; Senior Research Administrator; and Student Support Officer. Most recently, Adam supported the Durham Centre for Academic Development (DCAD) in the capacity of Student Support Officer.
Adam is equally passionate about research and holds interest in topics spanning the disciplines of Social and Organisational Psychology, including the bright and dark sides of social/organisational belonging; identity leadership and followership; workplace well-being; and remote working. In September 2022, Adam published his undergraduate dissertation thesis in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology which explored the effects of social and organisational connectedness on employee well-being and remote working experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic.