Dr Gustavo Espinoza Ramos

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Senior Lecturer

Management and Marketing

Switchboard: +44 (0)20 7911 5000
35 Marylebone Road
London
GB
NW1 5LS
SEM 1, 23/24: Tuesday 11:00 to 12:00 and Thursday 16:00 to 17:00 (online or on campus). BB Collaborate link: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/ad6371d2e3564587b4516cfe360584cc
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About me

I hold a degree in Business Information Technology at Coventry University. I had work experience in a telecommunication and IT companies. Additionally, I had the opportunity to work for two years as an investor relations assistant in a small Peruvian mining company that encouraged me to study a MSc in Mining Engineering at the Camborne School of Mines (CSM) in the University of Exeter. In a broader context, the current efforts of mining companies to improve productivity due to the reduction of the prices of the commodities,  the social protest by rural communities around in mining operations in Peru, the lack of guidance of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policies for small, medium size mining companies and my interest in how a mining company can positively contribute to the sustainable development of rural community meanwhile maximising their profits are reasons that have encouraged me pursuing a PhD in this field since 2015.

Other interests are on international development, well-being and the use of technology in pedagogy which encouraged me to become a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) since May 2018. 

Teaching

Currently, I am a lecturer at the Westminster Business School. 

Module Leadership:

  • MA Management (Online)

Module Leadership:

As a co-module leader I am responsible for responding to student feedback and external examiner input; and the design, delivery and updating of the following modules: 

  • Sustainable City Economies (level 5 module)
  • Strategic Perspectives for Marketing (level 6 module)

Teaching responsibilities:

  • 7BUSS003W Business Research Methods 
  • 6MNST006W - Strategic Management  
  • 6SUEV002W - Social and Green Innovation
  • 5BUSS015W - Sustainable City Economies

Postgraduate Supervisor:

As a supervisor I have been providing support, advice and guidance to postgraduate students. I have been supervising dissertations in areas related to sustainable business, customer behaviour and innovation

Personal tutor:

As a personal tutor, I provide an effective provision of pastoral care of undergraduate students, taking an active interest in my tutees' academic progress and their wellbeing.

Research

My research explores the contribution of community partnership to the development of Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR) initiatives in the Peruvian Mining industry that support the approval of the social license to operate. This thesis aims to evaluate the impact of community partnership agreements in order to attain the social license to operate in the mining industry in Peru, to evaluate how legal framework contributes to the community participation during the development of CSR initiatives in the mining industry, to analyse whether the community concerns could develop social, environmental and economic performance indicators in sustainability reports; and to determine the best practices for the development of community partnership agreements.

Publications

For details of all my research outputs, visit my WestminsterResearch profile.