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Allison Wylde

Senior Lecturer in Business Analysis

Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society

Member of the Economic Geography Research Group

NEWS - St Pancras International Partnership

NEWS - 215,000GBP HEIF4 funding secured - work the security industry in regeneration projects and mega events - 2012 london Olympics

 Allison Wylde

Business Expertise and Research Interests

Allison has more than ten years business experience working in motorsports. Allison set up and was appointed director of Newham Docklands Motorcycle Project the UK's only Moto-x track and training project for socially excluded young people and youths at risk of offending - and more than 5,000 received coaching. She then set up and managed her own business; she promoted the 2001-2003 British Moto-x Championship for girls and women and delivered moto-x schools across the UK for Yamaha Motors (UK) and KTM Sportmotorcycles (UK). Allison secured funds, sponsorship and product support of more than 2.42 million GBP.

In 2007 Allison is now Senior Lecturer in Business Analysis (Assistant Professor) with the Business School at London Metropolitan University where she teaches project management and business analysis for MBA and MA post-graduate students.

Allison's applied academic experience is in business analysis, strategy and forecasting. She holds a BSc Honours in biology and environmental science an M.A. in teaching and learning in higher education and a Postgraduate diploma in timber technology and is completing her Ph.D. in geography at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has previously held Science and Engineering Research Council research studentships at University College London (Biology) and Imperial College London.

Funding and Awards

2008-11 HEIF4 Funding to work with the security sector as part of regeneration projects and mega events.

2007-8 London Development Agency Secondment into Knowledge: helping a small to medium sized security firm tender for a 2012 London Olympic contract

2006-8 Higher Education Academy Mathematics Statistics and Operational Research: developing content for learning objects for students studying statistics

1998 Telethon Fellowship: developed methods of working with disaffected young people, City University, Centre Of Voluntary Sector Work

Links to some recent publications and conference presentations

Wylde A., (2008) Mapping Private Security - The Companies and The Industry, Working paper. Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

Wylde A., (2008) Lock in or locked out? The effects of public sector contracts for a small to medium sized security firm; paper presented at the Economic Geography Research Group Symposium, University of Manchester,May 14th and 15th 2008.

Wylde A., (2007) Development of content for a new Reusable Learning Object, to help students' improve their writing in quantitative analysis modules

Baccus L.R., Wylde A., (2007) Sustainability issues in supporting students understanding of mathematics statistics and operational research Conference presentation in Turkey 2006

Wylde A. (2006) Improved Goals, Action Plans, Planning Ahead And Reflection: students' self-assessment of coaching

Devlin A., (1998)Bringing hope to Britain's Derelict Docklands