Dr Doirean Wilson

Biography

Dr Doirean Wilson, is a Strategic HRM Senior Lecturer in the Strategy Leadership and Operations department at Middlesex University London. Her area of focus is Diversity Practice and Community Engagement. Doirean is included in the esteemed HR Most Influential Top Thinkers List for 2023, due to what was described as her “valuable contributions and profound insights” which has “truly distinguished” her “as an influential thought leader in the field of HR”. Doirean is the UK Country Chair of the Higher Education Wing of G100, an eminent group of 100 women world leaders, including Nobel Laureates, former Heads of States, Ministers, Businesswomen, Corporate and Community Leaders, who are engaged with diversity and inclusion, with the expertise and experience to develop a Vision Document that will provide suggestions and recommendations to institutions such as the UN and Governments worldwide. 

Doirean is also a multiple award-winning Diversity Expert, and former Diversity Lead, and Co-Chair of the Anti-Racism-Network at Middlesex. She is a qualified Coach who is a Member of the European Mentoring Coaching & Counselling (EMCC) Global UK. Doirean Chair’s the Nubian Jak Community Trust, a commemorative organisation that recognises contributions made to the British society by people of African and African-Caribbean. She is also a Patron of the Wilkes Education Scholarship Trust (WEST) that provides grant awards to university students of African and African-Caribbean heritage.

She has supervised several Post Graduate Research Students, and more recently, Co-supervised a Doctoral student by Public Works to completion, whose topic was "Social Justice Journalism: Valorising and empowering the experiences of ‘the Other’" Date of Award: 21st April 2023

Doirean holds a Doctorate in Professional Practice (D. Prof Professional Practice), an MA in Human Resource Management (MAHRM), a Diploma in Coaching Professional, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Further Education (PG Cert FE). She is Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (FCIPD), Fellow of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (FCUSP), and Fellow of the European SPES Institute.

Key Expertise

Doirean's areas of expertise include Cultural Diversity, Inclusion, Community Engagement, Coaching and Mentoring, Human Resource Management, Business Consulting, Leadership and Management, Gender Disparity, Organisational Behaviour, Personal Effectiveness

Teaching

Doirean has led nine postgraduate programmes, including the Executive MBA and. the MA HRM Work Based Learning Programme. She has also led twenty-three modules that includes the three that she currently leads, which are MBS3013 `Consulting to Organisations`, HRM3218 `Coaching and Mentoring` and the HRM3017 `Equality, Diversity and Inclusion` module that she wrote from the findings of her diversity research. These latter two modules are also delivered in the university's overseas campus in Dubai.