Robert (Bob) G. Hamlin

Bob Hamlin is Emeritus Professor of Human Resource Development at the University of Wolverhampton Business School, UK. His main research interest focuses on perceived managerial and leadership effectiveness within public and private sector organizations within the UK, and in more than 20 other countries across five continents.  Bob has authored/co-authored over 60 peer-reviewed journal articles and over 34 chapters to various HRD-related books.  He is author of Universalistic Models of Managerial and Leadership Effectiveness (VDM Verlag Dr Muller, 2009), and lead co-editor of Organizational Change and Development: A reflective guide for managers, trainers, and developers (FT Prentice Hall, 2001) and of Evidence-Based Initiatives for Organizational Change and Development (IGI Global, 2019) which won the 2020 Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD) R. Wayne Pace HRD Book of the Year Award.  He is also the recipient of the first Distinguished Contribution Award from the University Forum for Human Resource Development (UFHRD). Bob Hamlin is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Journal of HRD Practice Policy and Research, and sits on the Editorial Boards of HRDQ, HRDI, HRDR and EJTD.  Since 2014 he has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.