About
William E. Donald is an Associate Professor in Sustainable Careers and Human Resource Management at the Ronin Institute (USA) and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Southampton (UK) as a guest of Professor Yehuda Baruch.
Will currently sits on the following Editorial Boards
- Journal of Vocational Behavior, Elsevier
- Personnel Review, Emerald
- Career Development International, Emerald
- Journal of Management & Organization, Cambridge University Press
- Journal of Work-Applied Management, Emerald
Will also sits on the following Research Policy and Steering Group
- Institute of Student Employers
Will also holds the following Professional Memberships
- Fellow of the Learning and Performance Institute (FLPI)
- Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA)
- Member of the National Council of Psychotherapists (MNCP NP)
- Member of the Career Development Institute (MCDI)
- Lifetime Member of the British Computer Society (MBCS)
For more information, visit Will's website: https://drwilldonald.wordpress.com/
Research
Research groups
Research interests
- Graduate Employability
- Career Development
- Sustainable Career Ecosystem
- Employability Capital
- Graduate Recruitment
Current research
Will's current projects include
- Conceptualising sustainable career ecosystems [with Beatrice Van der Heijden and Yehuda Baurch].
- (Re)Framing sustainable careers [with Beatrice Van der Heijden and Graham Manville].
- Students' entrepreneurial intention and wellbeing in China and the UK [with Maria Mouratidou, Nimmi Mohandas, and Yin Ma].
- Preparing students for hybrid working [with Helen Hughes and Rebecca Padgett].
- Digital autopreneurs and career sustainability in India [with Abhyudaya Mishra and Mridul Maheshwari].
- Intelligent careers in the public sector in Greece [with Maria Mouratidou and Mirit Grabarski].
Publications
74 publications
Page 1 of 8
William E. Donald
, 2024
Type: book
, 2023
, Human Resource Development Quarterly
, 34 (3) , 329--348
DOI: 10.1002/hrdq.21491
Type: article
Jos Akkermans,
William E. Donald,
Denise Jackson,
& Anneleen Forrier
, 2023
, Career Development International
Type: article
William Donald,
, 2023
Type: conference
William Donald,
Beatrice Van der Heijden,
& Graham Manville
, 2023
Type: conference
Helen P.N. Hughes,
Maria Mouratidou,
& William Donald
, 2023
Type: conference
William E. Donald
, 2023
, GiLE Journal of Skills Development
, 3 (2) , 3--6
Type: article
William E. Donald
, 2023
, GiLE Journal of Skills Development
, 3 (2) , 131--134
Type: article
William E. Donald,
, 2023
, Career Matters
, 11 (4) , 38--39
Type: article
Caroline Green,
& William E. Donald
, 2023
, Times Higher Education
Type: article
Teaching
Will has been a guest lecturer on the following modules in Southampton Business School at the University of Southampton
- 2021-2022 MSc International Management [invited by Yehuda Baruch].
- 2021-2022 MSc Project Management [invited by Ramesh Vahidi].
- 2016-2018 MSc Contemporary Career Issues [invited by Melanie Ashleigh].
- 2009-2010 MSc Knowledge and Information Systems Management [invited by Thanos Papadopoulos].
Additional keynotes and seminars include
- 2023: Unlocking the secrets to scholarly publishing, Peer Learning Society, UK [invited by Neil Ford and Catherine McConnell].
- 2023: Academics as actors within sustainable career ecosystems, Employability Summit, Newman University, UK [invited by Ian Fellows].
- 2022: Academia and systemic barriers to inclusion, Education Talks Podcast, Thailand [invited by David Burke]
- 2022: Sustainable careers and the future of work: Challenges and opportunities, Keynote with Maria Mouratidou, GiLE4Youth International Conference, Hungary [invited by Judit Beke].
- 2021: Conceptualisation of weather as a career metaphor, Lightning Talk, Ronin Institute, USA [invited by Jon Wilkins].
- 2020: Impact of COVID-19 on graduate careers, Graduate Recruitment Bureau, UK [invited by Dan Hawes].
- 2020: Careers advice for the COVID-19 era: How to drive, strive, and thrive [invited separately by Cardiff University, CityGrad, Southampton Careers Exchange, and University of Kent].
Biography
Will has published over 50 peer-reviewed works (journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers)–which have been read nearly 30,000 times (ResearchGate) and cited over 825 times (GoogleScholar) as of October 2023.
Notable achievements include
- 2023 Winner of the Human Resource Management Special Interest Group Best Paper Award at the British Academy of Management Conference [with Beatrice Van der Heijden & Graham Manville].
- 2023 Greatest Unsung Hero for the Careers Sector, Shorlisted, Careers in Careers Festival, The Talent Cycle, UK.
- 2022 Oustanding Reviewer Award for Management Research Review, Emerald.
- 2019 Doctoral College Research Award, Southampton Business School Runner-Up, University of Southampton.
- 2018 Doctoral College Research Award: Southampton Business School Highly Commended Nominee, University of Southampton, UK.
- 2017 Postgraduate Research Publication Award, Southampton Business School, University of Southampton.
- 2016 Best Paper Award, Relational Leadership and Change Stream, Southampton Business School, University of Southampton, UK.
Prizes
- Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2017)
- Fellow of the Learning and Performance Institute (2018)
- Best Paper Award, Relational Leadership and Change Stream, Southampton Business School Conference (2016)
- Postgraduate Researcher Publication Award (2017)
- Doctoral College Research Award, Highly Commended Nominee, Faculty of Business & Law, University of Southampton (2018)
- Doctoral College Research Award, Southampton Business School Runner-Up, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Southampton (2019)
- Winner Outstanding Reviewer for Management Research Review, 2022 Emerald Literati Awards (2022)
- Best Paper Award for Human Resource Management Special Interest Group, British Academy of Management Conference 2023 (2023)