Alina Vaduva

Dr Alina Vaduva

Director of the Business Advice Centre (BAC)

Management, Leadership, Business Strategy, Business Decision Making, CIME

Department of Tourism, Hospitality & Events Management , Royal Docks School Of Business And Law

With more than 18 years’ business experience including 14 years of management experience, I combine strong commercial acumen with extensive experience. Proven in customer-facing, financial, and research and start-up environments, I am adaptable and capable of working out of my comfort zone and quickly getting acquainted with new working areas including technical complex areas. I am an excellent communicator as evidenced by the successful teaching elements of my background. Multilingual, I speak seven languages.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Management
  • MSc in HR Management
  • Banking Diploma
  • BA in International Business
  • DPSI (Diploma in Public Service Interpreting) Level 6

Areas Of Interest

  • Educational and business simulation games
  • Podcasts
  • Writing
Alina Vaduva

OVERVIEW

I worked for seven years in banking, three years in EU funded international projects (H2020), I founded and managed two companies (I am still a shareholder in one), I have four years of working in education experience.

MOST RECENT RESEARCH

Co-author of the following research projects and articles:

  • Can student induction become an enjoyable and beneficial experience?
  • The Augmented Reality (AR) games may have the answers - Funded Research Project
  • The application of gamification in teaching: Merits or myths? - article submitted for the BAM Conference
  • Using a geolocation game for student’s induction: gaining knowledge and increasing motivation
  • Sales Control Management in Banking and the Usefulness of Emerging Technologies

PUBLICATIONS

 

  • IV. Dezvoltarea planului de afaceri [Developing a Business Plan] IX. Factori de succes in initierea afacerilor [Success factors in initiating business], 2 chapters of the Entrepreneurship Guide (May 2015)
  • In Search of the Housing Supply: Determinants of the Construction Policy Empowerment in Europe, REVISTA DE ŞTIINȚE POLITICE. REVUE DES SCIENCES POLITIQUES NO. 45 • 2015
  • Sales Management Strategic Control in Banking, PhD Thesis validated by the National Commission on October 18 2013
  • Strategy and strategic management in the Romanian Banking System, Revista de Științe politice /Revue des Sciences politiques, No. 37-38, 2013, pp. 201-206
  • The Performance of the Romanian Banking System, Revista de Științepolitice/Revue des Sciences politiques, No. 37-38, 2013, pp. 184-188
  • Banking in the context of new global realities, EBES 2012 Anthology, Volume 3,pp. 112-116, Istanbul, Turkey, Mars 2013, IBSS: International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, ISBN : 978-605-61069-9-6
  • The Essential Ingredients of Successful Sales Control Strategies in Retail Banking, Journal of Advanced Research in Organizational Psychology, Volume 1, Issue 1, 2012, pp. 44-47
  • Banking in Romania during and after socialism, Revista de Științe politice/Revue des Sciences politiques, no. 35, 2012, pp.201-207
  • Lean Management in Banking, Annals of the University of Craiova, Year XXXXI No. 39 / 2011, pp. 119-12

Projects

  • I personally coordinated an ERDF funded project - a Regional Centre for Entrepreneurs a project of 2.5 mil EUR : 200 young entrepreneurs were trained and coached and 50 new businesses were funded with 50,000 EUR.
  • I handled the budgetary planning and financial reporting for Romania in the FP7 project in urban logistic field, called Dorothy (Development Of RegiOnal clusTers for researcH and implementation of environmental friendlY urban logistics | DOROTHY Project | Fact Sheet | FP7 | CORDIS | European Commission (europa.eu) ), a total budget of 7 m EUR.
  • I was the leading researcher in an ERDF project called Development of technological transfer capacities of research organisations (1.5m EUR)

RESEARCH AND IMPACT

I am part of the EU Innovation network community. I took part in legal initiatives related to local government in the UK. I sent education policy suggestions to the UK Shadow Cabinet.

EXTERNAL ROLES

  • Expert Evaluator of the European Commission

INDUSTRY PARTNERS

I cooperate with the PwC Luxembourg, University of Craiova, Romania and ARoTT ( The Romanian Association of Technology Transfer and Innovation).