Dr Serkan Ceylan joint us from the University of Southampton, first, as our Head of School of Supply Chain, Logistics and Project Management before he was promoted as the first Associate Dean within Arden University. Serkan now holds the title of Associate Dean of the Faculty of Business. Serkan is playing a key role in the field of project management (PM), he delivered short courses to practitioners as a certified trainer for several PM qualifications incl. PRINCE2 and AgilePM and has been a programme director for the MSc PM.

I have over 20 years of experience in the Higher Education sector gained from multiple roles – these have ranged from teaching in the classroom right through to senior management positions.

I currently hold a dual strategic leadership position as Dean of the Faculty of Business at Arden University and I’m very proud to have been appointed as Arden’s first ever Dean, giving me the exciting opportunity to build a Faculty from scratch. I am also the Deputy Pro Vice Chancellor (Academic) at Arden University. 

During her career in higher education Finola has undertaken a variety of leadership, teaching, research and quality assurance roles in UK universities.

Prior to becoming an academic, Finola held a number of leadership positions in several national policy, research and campaigning organisations in the civil society sector, with a particular focus on criminal justice.