Dr Julian Randall
Dr Julian Randall
BA, BA (Hons), MSc, PhD, Honorary Professor
Dr Randall set up both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Managing Consultancy and Change at the University of Aberdeen, where all of his postgraduate students were awarded distinctions and employed in their chosen occupations. He retired in 2018 and was appointed Emeritus Associate Professor for life by the University of Aberdeen. He is currently still supporting two PhD students and continuing his current research, writing and publishing.
Dr Randall is Director of Reflexivity Consultants (Scotland) Ltd together with the team who supported his University work and contributed to his books on the topic of management consultancy.
Qualifications
2001 – PhD, University of St Andrews
1994 – MSc, University of Stirling
1992 – BA (Hons), Open University
1978 – BA, Open University
Background
Dr Randall began his career as a Graduate Management Trainee at GEC, before setting up his own management consultancy business in 1984. He worked as an Associate Consultant with Guardian Business Services in managing, training and developing clients, including HM Customs & Excise, the Water Industry and Ward White Retail with whom he worked long-term.
Dr Randall completed his part-time MSc in Human Resource Management at the University of Stirling and stayed on to teach on the International MBA for five years. He completed a PhD at the University of St Andrews in 2001, and following a two-year Teaching Fellowship, Dr Randall accepted the Director of Postgraduate Programmes position in the newly set-up Centre for Business Education for two years. Dr Randall later undertook the same role at the University of Aberdeen for three years.
In 2007 he won the first of three British Academy research grants for investigating the merger of HM Customs and Excise with Inland Revenue with Professor Stephen Procter, Newcastle University, and conducted research into the discourse and identity in practitioners dealing with the survivors of childhood sexual abuse with Professor Iain Munro, University of Innsbruck.
In 2013, he won his second BA research grant into subsequent career choices of ex-priests and seminarians forty years after ordination, and is currently working on his third BA award on boundary spanners and internal change agents in the UK and Australia with Professors Bernard Burnes and Patrick Dawson.