Professor David Boughey
Strategic Lead for Portfolio Development, Accreditation and Ranking
Business Strategy and Marketing
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Streatham Court
Rennes Drive
Exeter EX4 4PU
Professor David Boughey holds a portfolio of education, accreditation, and reputation activity across the Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy, to include leading on international accreditations (AACSB, EQUIS, AMBA) for the Â鶹ֱ²¥ Business School. He was interim Deputy Pro-Vice Chancellor and Dean of the Â鶹ֱ²¥ Business School, August 2023 ¨C December 2024, where he¡¯d also previously completed two terms as Associate Dean for Education. Before joining Exeter he¡¯d been Head of the School of Strategy & International Business at Bristol Business School, UWE.
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Whether through study or work, Professor Boughey has experienced university life at a range of different institutions. During his BA in History at Royal Holloway University of London, he studied for a year at Washington & Jefferson College in the United States. After completing his undergraduate degree, he moved to Oxford for a Masters in Economic and Social History, before returning to Royal Holloway for his PhD in Business History, where he also gained his first post as a lecturer.?
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While Professor Boughey¡¯s primary interests have been in enhancing teaching, learning and the student experience, he¡¯s continued his research interest in the firms that equipped and ran Britain¡¯s overseas railway empire. Professor Boughey¡¯s PhD assessed the organisational structure and firm strategies in the British railway locomotive engineering industry up to the 1930s. This research explained the emergence of a structural schism in the industry that resulted in Britain¡¯s railway companies internalising manufacture in their own workshops, while separate engineering firms focused on the export market. Serving Britain¡¯s formal and informal empire, these export-led firms navigated the vicissitudes of demand by being flexible in locomotive design, through product diversification, and by industry-wide co-operation, if not collaboration. More recently, Professor Boughey has been working on measuring and understanding the foreign investment from British registered firms that ran railways elsewhere in the world.
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Qualifications:
- BA Modern History, Economic History and Politics (Royal Holloway, University of London)
- MSc Economic and Social History (Oxford)
- PhD Business History (Royal Holloway, University of London)
- PGCertHE (University of the West of England)
- Principal Fellow HEA