Owain Smolovic-Jones

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Owain joined The Open University in November 2013, having originally trained as a journalist, working at Media Wales for two years. He subsequently became a party press officer, and it was in his political life that he rediscovered his interest in study and enrolled on a part-time MBA at Cardiff University.

In 2008 he gained a studentship to pursue a PhD on leadership development in the public sector, following which he secured a Research Fellow position at the New Zealand Leadership Institute at the University of Auckland. He then spent two years in Auckland working on the practice side of leadership development, as well as pursuing teaching and research.

He is committed to excellence in teaching and so pursued and obtained a PGCert in Academic Practice while at the University of Auckland.

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