Peri Papadimitriou is a Senior Global Partnerships Manager in the Business School at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. She is also Module Leader for the MSc International Management and Leadership course, and Collaborative Academic Lead for BMU Uzbekistan.
- Overview
- Research Interests
- Teaching & Learning
Peri is a Political Economist and Senior Global Partnerships Manager within the School of Arts, Social Sciences and Management. Since joining QMU in 2017, she has played a key role in developing, assuring, and strategically expanding the University’s collaborative provision.
Her career began in financial services before transitioning to the academia in 2002. Before QMU, she held senior posts in Greece, including Assistant Vice-Principal (Curriculum & Quality) at North College and Head of the Economics and Business Department at Metropolitan College, leading cross-disciplinary curriculum development, academic quality assurance, and partnership negotiations and development with UK universities and international agents.
Since 2002, she has designed, led, and taught undergraduate and postgraduate modules across the UK and internationally, focusing on inclusive, dialogic, and student-centred pedagogy.
At QMU, Peri provides strategic and distributed leadership in the design, validation, and delivery of programmes across multiple international partners and home programmes. As Collaborative Academic Lead, she ensures that programmes consistently meet QMU’s quality standards, national priorities, and international benchmarks.
She drives curriculum development, mentors academic staff, and implements inclusive assessment practices, fostering local capacity building, sustainability within partner institutions and partnership consolidation. She contributes to QMU governance as a member of the Court (October 2025), Senate, Financial Advisor to JNCC, and through the Collaborations Operations Group, Greek Partnership Forum, and other sub-committees and working groups.
She has engaged extensively with the QAA since 2015, participating in national consultations (2020), ELIR (2018), TNE reviews in Greece and Cyprus (2015), and, in 2025, in briefings on sector risk with QAA managers regarding TNE partnerships in Uzbekistan and QE-TNE reviews.
Peri is active in the wider HE community as a reviewer for the Journal of Governance and Control and Journal of Risk Governance and Control: Financial Markets & Institutions, and as an External Examiner for the University of the West of Scotland (currently) and Glasgow Caledonian University (previously).
She is committed to fostering cross-pollination and sharing good practice across her roles as Lecturer, External Examiner, Article Reviewer, Collaborative Academic Lead, Senior Global Partnerships Manager, and participant in institutional governance. Her professional philosophy is grounded in critical pedagogy, dialogic teaching, and the creation of equitable global learning environments that uphold integrity, transparency, and excellence.
Affiliations (including memberships) to other organisations:
- Reviewer, Journal of Governance and Control
- Reviewer, Journal of Risk Governance and Control: Financial Markets & Institutions
- External Examiner, University of the West of Scotland (2021–present)
- External Examiner, Glasgow Caledonian University (2019–2024)
- Member, British Council TNE Good Practice Network (Uzbekistan)
- Member, Scottish Higher Education International Partnerships Group (SHEIPG)
- Member, QMU Court, Senate, Collaborations Operations Group, Greek Partnership Forum
- SFHEA Advance HE Applicant (submission 09.25)
Peri’s research interests lie at the intersection of political economy, regulatory governance, and international politics. She examines the dynamics of governance, ethics, and sustainability in international business, drawing on her experience leading curriculum design and quality assurance in complex transnational contexts.
These interests directly inform her teaching, where she integrates globalisation, ethics, and social responsibility to foster critical inquiry and reflective engagement among students. This interplay between research and teaching underpins her commitment to inclusive global education, authentic assessment, and the development of ethically aware, critically engaged graduates.
Active Research Interests:
- Political Economy of Governance, Regulation, and Institutional Change
- Economic Policy, Protectionism and Trade, and Regional Integration in Emerging/Transitional Economies
- Power, Ethics, and Inequality
- Laissez-faire Economics, Market Liberalisation, and State Intervention
- Sustainable Development and Policy Coherence in relation to the UN SDGs
- The Economics of: Education, Demographics and Employability, Social Mobility
Peri’s teaching practice fosters critical inquiry, intercultural dialogue, and reflective engagement across postgraduate and undergraduate contexts, both in the UK and internationally.
At QMU, she leads modules at SCQF levels 10 & 11 including Contemporary Issues in Business and Society and Contemporary Issues in International Management. Her teaching integrates themes of governance, ethics, sustainability, and global leadership, encouraging students to apply theoretical knowledge to real-world issues.
Her scholarly agenda aligns with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (particularly SDG 4, 8, and 17) while her teaching explores business ethics, corporate sustainability, CSR, cultural relativism, governance, international trade, and the dynamics of the global economy and workforce. This approach fosters ethical awareness, analytical rigor, and the capacity to navigate global economic/political systems and the external business environments with responsibility and insight.
Peri is committed to inclusive, authentic assessment and has pioneered innovative approaches that promote communication, integrity, and applied learning. Her pedagogical model draws on Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development, emphasising collaborative learning and academic dialogue as vehicles for intellectual growth. She is also a Postgraduate dissertation supervisor.
Beyond teaching, she mentors local and TNE colleagues through leading Staff Development and CPD initiatives and via peer observation opportunities, while fostering leadership capacity and professional growth across institutions. Her teaching philosophy aligns with QMU’s Student Experience Strategy, creating safe, engaging learning spaces that cultivate belonging, critical thinking, and ethical leadership, while empowering colleagues to lead, innovate, and sustain excellence within their programmes.
