Chandra Bhasham

Chandra Bhasham is Head of Global Partnership Development (Business and Management) and Head of Business Apprenticeship Programmes at the Claude Littner Business School, University of West London. He has a proven track record of setting up international partnerships and branch campuses specialising in business, management and accounting programmes in the Middle East, Europe and South Asia. An experienced academic practitioner, Chandra has overseen various developments across business courses which have matched industry and student expectations, as a champion of improving graduate attributes especially on enhancing employability skills in the current business context. Chandra is a firm believer of industry-University collaborations with an excellent track record of embedding real business issues as part of undergraduate/postgraduate assessment strategy.

Chandra is a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and his expertise is in the areas of Learning and Development, Human Resource Development, Organisational Behaviour and Leadership/Management skills.

He has completed his Master’s qualifications in London: MA International Business (London Metropolitan University), MA Human Resource Management (University of West London). He has a practical non-academic background as a HR Business Partner and HR consultant in private sector organisations especially dealing with SMEs. His doctoral study and interests are in the areas of developing and evaluating HRM frameworks within SMEs. His teaching work covers both the undergraduate and postgraduate at UWL.

Best Paper Award, 2014, OCI Annual Symposium, UWL

Bhahsam, C. (2014) Exploring HRM frameworks within SMEs in UK, OCI symposium, University of West London; UK.

Excellence in Teaching Award, 2011, Association of Business Executives, London; UK.