Patrick Harte
Patrick Harte

Dr Patrick Harte PFHEA

Senior Lecturer

Biography

Patrick joined Edinburgh Napier Business School in September 2004 direct from completing his PGCE in Further, Higher and Adult Education in Bolton Institute and Bury College. Patrick has been a Programme Leader at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels where he has been directly involved in new programme formulation and development, particularly with local Colleges and European partners. Patrick developed College based Higher Education Business management top-up degrees with Fife, Motherwell and West Lothian Colleges allowing College students the facility to articulate onto a degree programme in their local academic environments. Patrick also developed an extensive network of European partners who have engaged with the postgraduate double degree developed by Patrick within Edinburgh Napier Business School. This double degree has been very successful with in excess of 600 student benefiting from this programme over the past eight years. Patrick is (from August 2015 to present) the Business School Academic Lead for Student Experience, and in June 2017 wrote the successful Edinburgh Napier Business School bid for the BA (Hons) Business Management Graduate Level Apprenticeship programme through Skills Development Scotland. Patrick holds formal leadership posts in the areas of Line Manager: Strategy Operations and Entrepreneurship, SAL Student Experience, Senior Lecturer, Senior School Lead for Admissions, Widening Participation, Articulations, Induction and Academic Integrity. He also mentors colleagues, for instance, in applying for Principal/Senior Fellowship to the Higher Education Academy, and acts as a reviewer for applications up to and including the award of Principal Fellow.

Research Areas

Esteem

Advisory panels and expert committees or witness

  • Senior Academic Integrity Officer Group
  • Convenor AACSB Assurance of Learning Committee
  • EDI Committee Member
  • Convenor Business School Academic Conduct Panel
  • Contributor to Scottish Parliamentary Group Germany
  • University Academic Appeals Panel

 

Conference Organising Activity

  • WBM International Conference for Management Disciplines

 

External Examining/Validations

  • Convenor: MA Sports Journalism University Programme Approval Board
  • Convenor: MA MA Design Research and MA Service Design
  • Research Degrees Academic Review - Heriot Watt
  • External examiner, 'President of Jury', UPMF Grenoble

 

Invited Speaker

  • Offenburg University of Applied Sciences

 

Membership of Professional Body

  • Principal Fellow Higher Education Academy
  • Senior Fellow Higher Education Academy

 

Visiting Positions

  • Visiting academic - Landshut University of Applied Sciences

 

Date


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Aligning Institutional Resource Commitment with Strategic Pedagogical Development to Create Online Distance Learning Provision in UK HEIs

Journal Article
Khaleel, F., Harte, P., Avdukic, A., & Bonnett, M. (online)
Aligning Institutional Resource Commitment with Strategic Pedagogical Development to Create Online Distance Learning Provision in UK HEIs. Education and Training, https://doi.org/10.1108/et-02-2024-0074
Purpose: This study explores the various models influencing online distance learning growth in UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) due to the evolving politico-socio-econo...

A Policy Guide for Education Leaders On Ways to Establish a Co-Understanding Of 'Human Work' And Originality Integrated with the Positive Use of AI In Students and Academic Staff

Book Chapter
Khaleel, F., Harte, P., & Avdukic, A. (in press)
A Policy Guide for Education Leaders On Ways to Establish a Co-Understanding Of 'Human Work' And Originality Integrated with the Positive Use of AI In Students and Academic Staff. In Emerald Handbook on International Higher Education. Emerald
The development of artificial intelligence (AI) has raised existential questions about the originality and validity of the assessments in higher education. This chapter focuse...

Exploring Models for Developing Online Learning in Higher Education: Integrating Institutional Resource Commitment with Strategic Pedagogical Planning

Digital Artefact
Khaleel, F., Harte, P., Avdukic, A., & Bonnett, M. (2025)
Exploring Models for Developing Online Learning in Higher Education: Integrating Institutional Resource Commitment with Strategic Pedagogical Planning. [Video]

Fostering Academic Integrity by Adopting a Multidimensional Systemic Approach to Feedback

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Harte, P., & Khaleel, F. (2025, March)
Fostering Academic Integrity by Adopting a Multidimensional Systemic Approach to Feedback. Presented at AI and Academic Integrity: What Next?, Online

Aligning Institutional Resource Commitment with Strategic Pedagogical Development to Create Online Distance Learning Provision in UK HEIs

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Khaleel, F., Harte, P., Avdukic, A., & Bonnett, M. (2025, March)
Aligning Institutional Resource Commitment with Strategic Pedagogical Development to Create Online Distance Learning Provision in UK HEIs. Presented at RIDE 2025: Empowering and Sustaining Change, University of London, Centre for Online & Distance Education

The Delphic ambiguity in academic integrity breaches of international students

Journal Article
Khaleel, F., Ghunmi, L. A., Avdukic, A., Ghunmi, D. A., & Harte, P. (online)
The Delphic ambiguity in academic integrity breaches of international students. Studies in Higher Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2025.2457000
Recent media and literature have focused on the high incidence of academic integrity breaches among international students. However, the studies that reached this conclusion p...

Carrying the load: a moderated mediation study exploring the link between perceived organizational support and burnout amongst management consultants

Journal Article
Bernard, D., McGuire, D., Harte, P., & Müller, P. (online)
Carrying the load: a moderated mediation study exploring the link between perceived organizational support and burnout amongst management consultants. Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance, https://doi.org/10.1108/joepp-07-2024-0306
Purpose This study investigates the relationship between perceived organizational support (POS), employee resilience and workload on burnout in the consulting sector, which i...

Bringing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion to Academic Integrity in the Age of AI

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Harte, P. (2024, July)
Bringing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion to Academic Integrity in the Age of AI. Presented at AI and Academic Integrity: What Next?, Online
Bringing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion to Academic Integrity in the Age of AI • Co-creating shared understandings of academic integrity and ethical use of AI in academia •...

Let’s not blame students for the shortcomings of assessment strategies of universities that turn a blind eye to artificial intelligence: A pre-crisis warning

Digital Artefact
Khaleel, F., & Harte, P. Let’s not blame students for the shortcomings of assessment strategies of universities that turn a blind eye to artificial intelligence: A pre-crisis warning. [Blog post]

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Khaleel, F., & Harte, P. Let’s not blame students for the shortcomings of assessment strategies of universities that turn a blind eye to artificial intelligence: A pre-crisis warning. [Blog post]
Increases in breach of academic integrity is an issue driven by dated assessment designs, obsolete assessment strategies, an archaic quality framework using the doctrine of pr...

Supporting new taught postgraduate students to manage and overcome "digital shock"

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Harte, P., Critchley, B., & Jackin, J. (2024, June)
Supporting new taught postgraduate students to manage and overcome "digital shock". Presented at AGCAS Annual Conference 2024, Sheffield, UK
In recent years, there has been an identified "digital shock" amongst international students in the UK higher education (HE) sector. This has been highlighted by Jisc’s (2023)...

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