Sabine McKinnon

Sabine McKinnon is Lecturer in Employability in the Caledonian Academy at Glasgow Caledonian University. She is responsible for the management and implementation of the Real WoRLD project which aims to embed work related learning throughout the university curriculum.

Before joining Glasgow Caledonian University, Sabine worked as a researcher on the Aiming University Learning @ Work Project at the University of Glasgow, a collaborative partnership between the universities of Glasgow, St. Andrews and Glasgow Caledonian. Funded by the Scottish Funding Council the project aims to create a strategic shift in the development of employability initiatives and work related learning within Scottish universities.

Sabine’s background is in modern languages and intercultural education. A graduate of the University of Hamburg she has had a long career as a lecturer in British higher education. She has taught German, European Studies and Management at the universities of Leicester, Edinburgh, Heriot Watt and Queen Margaret. As Subject Leader for Languages and ERASMUS Co-ordinator at Queen Margaret University she was responsible for the university’s language and culture programme as well as European student and staff exchanges.

Her research expertise is in the field of intercultural studies. She has published and presented on the impact of national culture on consumer attitudes, delivered a workshop on intercultural teamwork at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg and given guest lectures on cultural influences in international human resource management at the University of Strathclyde. Current research interests include international perceptions of graduate attributes and linkages between internationalisation and work related learning in the higher education curriculum.

She is a reviewer for the International Journal of Consumer Studies and a member of the Higher Education Academy.

Selected journal publications

Schröder, M. and McKinnon, S. (2007) Learning good judgement: young Europeans' perceptions of key consumer skills. International Journal of Consumer Studies, 31, 152-159.

McKinnon, S. and Schröder, M. (2006) Young Europeans abroad in Scotland: an exploration of how attitudes to consumer credit reflect dimensions of culture. International Journal of Consumer Studies, 30/4, 360-368.

Selected conference papers and presentations

Schröder, M. and McKinnon, S. (June 2007) Building consumption capital through consumer empowerment? European perceptions of the consumer socialization process, 3rd Research Conference, International Institute of Consumer Sciences, Duncan of Jordanstown University, Belfast.

McKinnon, S. and Schröder, M. (July 2005) A new consumer in the new Europe? The role of national culture in consumer attitudes, 2nd Research Conference, International Institute of Consumer Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University.

McKinnon, S. (October 2004) The Challenges of Intercultural Teamwork, Invited presentation and one-day workshop at the Youth Centre of the Directorate of Heritage, Culture, Youth and Sport at the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France.

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