UCL School of Management

Edyta Kostanek

Senior Teaching Fellow
Office location
Engineering Front Building
Rm 4.04

Biography

I am a Lecturer (Education) and Programme Director for the BSc Information Management for Business at UCL School of Management. In this role, I provide strategic leadership for curriculum development, programme architecture, and student experience within an interdisciplinary degree integrating management, data, and digital innovation.

My teaching and leadership span project management, international business, strategy, innovation, entrepreneurship, and knowledge management. I have designed and delivered modules across the UK, Finland, Poland, and Hong Kong, working in diverse institutional and cultural contexts. My approach combines conceptual rigour with applied relevance, integrating industry practice, global case analysis, and research-informed pedagogy. As Programme Director, I focus on curriculum coherence, assessment design, and developing durable analytical and professional capabilities in complex environments.

My work sits at the intersection of project management, digital transformation, and higher education innovation. My scholarship examines how artificial intelligence, volatility, and technological acceleration reshape managerial expertise, organisational practice, and business education. I am interested in epistemic responsibility in the AI era, unlearning expertise, assessment design under generative AI, and project success under disruption. My work connects management theory with pedagogical innovation, contributing to debates on AI-conscious curriculum design and responsible transformation in business schools.

I maintain active engagement with professional and academic communities. I am a Senior Fellow of the Advance HE, a Certified Management and Business Educator, and an Advance HE accredited External Examiner. I am also a full member of the Association for Project Management and hold multiple professional certifications in project, programme, and portfolio management. These roles support my commitment to aligning academic standards with professional and global industry expectations.

Prior to entering academia, I worked at ABB Power Transformers in international project environments, contributing to quality management in large-scale, multi-stakeholder engineering projects. This experience continues to inform my teaching, case development, and leadership, grounding theoretical inquiry in applied organisational complexity.