A Guide to London Business School
Affiliate Faculty provide a valuable source of teaching to the School and enhance the faculty mix by bringing an added dimension and real life insights to our teaching activities.
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This guide has been designed to give you all the information you need when you start working at the School. Please click on the headings below for further information. If you can’t find the answer to your query here, please contact RFOaffiliates@london.edu.
Starting at the School
You will be working at the School as a self-employed consultant or employed through a company. Contracts are normally offered on an academic year basis, and your Contract for Services will tell you which courses you will be teaching and the number of teaching points this equates to. You will receive your contract through a system called Docusign which streamlines the signing process.
Your agreement with the School
Your obligations to the School during the agreement are to:
Provide the Services with reasonable skill, care and attention
Keep the School informed of the progress of the work you are doing on all projects in connection with which you are providing the Services
Comply with all reasonable and lawful requests of the School and to work and co-operate with its personnel
Provide such facilities and equipment as may be necessary to enable you to carry out the Services
Comply with all reasonable standards of safety and comply with the School’s health and safety procedures from time to time in force at the premises where the services are provided and report to the School any unsafe working conditions or practices
Comply with the School’s policies and codes of practice from time to time in force on Inclusion and Diversity and Valuing Dignity at London Business School
The School is under no obligation to provide you with work nor are you, as a consultant, obliged to perform work if it is offered. For information regarding termination of the agreement please see your contract.
As a affiliate lecturer at the School, you must abide by the terms of your contract and the principles of the School’s Intellectual Property Policy which can be found here.
Non-UK Citizens If they are a national from outside the UK, their appointment will be subject to us issuing them with a “Permitted Paid Engagement” letter. Visitors to the UK are required to obtain an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) at least 3 days before they travel to the UK. Without an ETA, they may be denied boarding by their airline or refused entry at the border. The ETA scheme operates similarly to the US ESTA visa-waiver scheme. Applications must be completed online before travelling to the UK. Decisions are typically made within a couple of days. They can apply online or via the UK ETA App. It costs £16 and is valid for multiple trips over 2 years. For more information on the ETA scheme, please see the gov.uk website here.
Citizens of the EU who have previously lived in the UK and have obtained settled or pre-settled status may not require a visa but should check with facultyhr@london.edu. Please ensure you send back the necessary immigration documentation and supporting documents as soon as possible to assist us with this. You might need to pay a healthcare surcharge (called the ‘immigration health surcharge’ or IHS) as part of your immigration application. Migrants requiring a visa of less than six months will not be required to pay the healthcare surcharge but instead may access NHS services and will be charged at point of use.
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Please contact the facultyhr@london.edu for further guidance.
The Research and Faculty Office is required to hold documentary evidence on eligibility to work in the UK for all employees and contractors. Please make an appointment to visit the office in RB.A3.17 before you start your teaching to meet with the Faculty HR team and to ensure that a copy of your passport and visa can be obtained for our records. Your Subject Area Manager will set up your School email address and advise you on how to get a swipe card in order to access the building. Either they or your designated Faculty Assistant will be on hand to help with any IT issues, to let you know about access to a hot desk and to introduce you to the members of your department and the rest of the faculty support team.
As an affiliate faculty member, we recognise that the teaching you do for London Business School is only a part of your professional activity. The terms of your contract for services do not prohibit you from teaching at competitive institutions (i.e. other business schools or management development organisations). However, you should first seek the School’s agreement via the Dean (agreement is not normally withheld). Please ensure that should you engage with another organisation, you do so in your own name and use the School’s name, at most, only in your biographical details to identify your affiliation to it. It is also important that you make it clear to the provider from the outset that the School’s logo cannot be used under any circumstances and that the School’s name can be used only in your bio and nowhere else.
As part of your contract with the School, you will need to complete online training prior to undertaking any teaching.
The School has partnered with an organisation called Bob’s Business to provide essential Information Management training modules for all faculty and staff.
Our adherence to the relevant GDPR regulations is imperative and failure to comply can result in large fines for the School and significant reputational damage. We each have a role to play in ensuring our continued compliance.
You will receive an email on how to gain access to the online training platform from Faculty HR. The platform can be found here.
Because London Business School has a complex portfolio of courses of many different types and lengths, annual teaching loads cannot be assigned on a straightforward "number of courses taught" basis. Instead, to provide a common currency, teaching loads are measured by a system of points, linked to work (or time) put in. This system seeks to allocate equal points for equal work.
All of the School’s teaching and administrative activities have been priced in terms of teaching points and the current “pricelist”. The points allocation for each teaching activity takes account of the following factors: the formal classroom contact hours, the time needed for preparation and course development, the effort involved in grading and examining and the time require for informal student contact.
While points allocations are broadly proportional to classroom contact hours, the London Business School points system differs from the pure contact-hours driven system used in many other business schools in two main ways. First, the points system recognises certain differences between degree programmes and executive teaching. Thus while executive programmes rarely involve grading and examining, they frequently require much informal contact time (e.g., dining-in, supervising evening group work etc.). Second because points are linked to time put in, the School is able to place non-classroom-based activities on an equal footing with classroom-based activities.
Payment for teaching is inclusive of travel costs, unless you are assigned to teach in Dubai, New York or Hong Kong, in which case the School will pay reasonable receipted expense to cover travel, accommodation and subsistence relating to the trip up to a maximum of £5000 for Dubai and New York or £6000 for Hong Kong. Expenses should be submitted to the relevant Programme office within one month of completion of the trip.
Please click here to view contacts in Degree Education Programmes. The School has a relationship with Key Travel and you are encouraged to use this company to book flights when travelling to teach on behalf of the School. Key Travel can also advise on visa requirements when travelling to these countries. The School has corporate rates available at the following nearby hotels: Danubius, The Holmes Hotel, The Landmark and Dorset Square Hotel. Please quote London Business School at the time of booking to benefit from these rates. To review the London Business School hotel rates, please click here. For longer stays www.sabbaticalhomes.com has information regarding homes and apartments to rent on a short-term basis in the local area. Please refer to the School’s Business Travel Policy and Procedure and expenses policy and FAQs for more information.
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Meet your colleagues
School management 2025/26
Dean: Sergei Guriev
Deputy Dean (Faculty): Gillian Ku
Deputy Dean (Programmes and Digital Learning): Gary Dushnitsky
Executive Dean, Executive Education, Middle East: Florin Vasvari
Director, Executive Education: Kathleen O'Connor
Faculty Advisor, Executive Education: Stefano De Cesaris
Chair, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging (DIB) Board and Committee: Ena Inesi
Programmes 2025/26
Executive Director, Programmes & Student Experience: Jane Charlton
Executive Director, Career Centre: Zoe McLoughlin
Chair, PhD Programme: Jérémie Gallien
The School has a number of committees including: Governing Body, Senior Management Team, Management Board and Faculty Board. For more information on how the School is run, please ask your Subject Area Manager for a copy of the Standing Committee Handbook.
Academic Advisors
MBA, MAM and EMBAG: Kostis Christodoulou
EMBA, Sloan and MiM: Ben Hardy
MiF, MFA and One-Year MBA: Chris Higson
Rosemary Vipond is the Director of the Research and Faculty Office and the department is divided into three main sections:
The Faculty Support Team provides the HR function for faculty, including the administration of the teaching points system, benefits, professional development and support in facilitating faculty performance reviews.
The Research Support Team supports the research activities of faculty with a particular focus on providing advice in obtaining external research funding.
The PhD programme team manage the day to day running of the PhD programme.
If you have any questions about your contract or need any help from the School, please do not hesitate to contact us: Sue Harry – if you belong to Accounting, Economics, Finance and Strategy and Entrepreneurship Subject Areas
Siân Smith – if you belong to Management Science and Operations, Marketing or Organisational Behaviour Subject Areas
Or, contact Faculty HR for general queries.
London Business School has 7 subject areas and all lecturers are members of one of these areas. Each subject area has adjuncts and affiliate lecturers working in the department and you are invited to participate in the area seminars etc. Subject Areas have a team of support staff (faculty assistants) and a subject area manager who oversees the running of the department on a day-to-day basis.
The subject area manager is responsible for planning the annual teaching schedule, coordinating teaching technology, ensuring course delivery processes are followed and that School policies are communicated and fully implemented amongst other things. Your subject area manager is your first point of contact for any queries you might have. If you are unable to come in on a teaching day due to sickness etc. please contact your subject area manager as soon as possible so that arrangements can be made.
Each area also has a Chair, who is appointed by the Dean. This position rotates periodically between the Professors in the department. The Chair is responsible for coordinating teaching allocations, resources and recruitment; overseeing the area’s course syllabi; monitoring teaching performance and carrying out appraisals; and promoting the activities and profile of the subject area, both inside and outside the School.Accounting
Chair: Professor Alastair Lawrence
Subject Area Manager: Debbie Hughes
Economics
Chair: Professor David P. Myatt
Subject Area Manager: Eleanor Burke
Finance
Chair: Professor Christopher Hennessy
Finance Subject Area Manager: Zaiba Badrudin
Management Science and Operations
Chair: Professor S. Alex Yang
Subject Area Manager: Zainab Mehr
Marketing
Chair: Professor Anja Lambrecht
Subject Area Manager: Florencia Giovane
Organisational Behaviour
Chair: Professor Daniel Effron
Subject Area Manager: Grace Mejia
Strategy and Entrepreneurship
Chair: Professor Donal Crilly
Subject Area Manager: Desi Delovski
Get to know our programmes
The School offers ten post-graduate Master’s Degree programmes and one Doctoral programme. 2,000 degree students from over 100 countries are taught by us each year, and 10,000 executives attend our Open and Custom programmes organised by our Executive Education Team. We also run a highly successful PhD programme for the next generation of business scholars.
The masters courses we offer are:
- Masters in Analytics and Management
- Masters in Financial Analysis
- Masters in Management
- Global Masters in Management
- MBA programme
- Masters in Finance
- Executive MBA
- EMBA-Global
- Sloan Masters in Leadership and Strategy
- One-year MBA
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Executive Education enables ambitious corporations and their people to transform and grow through learning designed for profound impact.
We combine rigorous, evidence-based research, deep expertise in learning and a passion for transformative learning experiences to deliver learning that enables our clients and participants to achieve their personal, team and business goals.
Our global community and London location support us by connecting minds, provoking new ways of thinking and fuelling a powerful and diverse network of lifelong learners.
We continuously develop, improve and innovate our products and services to ensure they deliver the impact required.
Executive Education has an extensive portfolio of open enrolment programmes, delivered either in person or online. The programmes cover leadership, strategy, finance, HR, Marketing and Data Science and Innovation. We provide flexible, accessible and personalised learning to executives who need real-time upskilling.
Our customised programmes for global corporations address the needs of our clients in the following areas: new skills and capabilities, strategy development and execution, leadership transition, talent pipeline development and organisational and cultural transformation. These programmes are co-created with clients and tailored to their specific context, challenges and needs. They are large scale, multi-modular, blended ‘learning to performance journeys’ designed for profound impact. They combine leading-edge faculty insights, experiential learning, inside-out experiences, and practical application and experimentation to achieve sustained behaviour change and profound impact.
Over 10,000 executives from around the world attend our transformative learning experiences annually.Our roster of clients includes businesses such as Rolls Royce, HSBC, Saudi Aramco, Continental Group and Faurecia.
Visit the Executive Education homepage.
Key contacts
Helen Kerkentzes (Associate Dean)
Sam Tucker (Senior Project Manager)
Accessing your teaching schedule
Our Teaching Planning Process begins in October, when we review teaching demand for the upcoming academic year. Subject Areas (SAs) will reach out to affiliate faculty to gather teaching preferences, with the goal of finalising allocations by the end of February. While SAs make every effort to accommodate individual preferences, allocations are subject to teaching demands and the availability of faculty. By the end of April, the DECC team will contact you to confirm your teaching schedule. At this point, you’ll be asked to review the proposed dates and times and finalise the schedule. This information will be available via the LBS Calendar.
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Preparing to teach
Lecture theatres are fitted with state of the art teaching technology. All systems are integrated and can be fully controlled by the user from a touch panel at the teaching desk. The Support team are happy to provide one to one instruction in any aspect of the School’s AV. LT induction takes approximately 20 minutes. New lecturers are encouraged to take advantage of this and to book support in the theatre at the start of their classes. Please contact itfacultyhelp@london.edu with your request.
The School has various teams who can provide you with support:
Please visit the ‘Faculty development’ section on the Research and Faculty Office Hub page for further information.
When you’re assigned a course, the Subject Area will reach out to you to share information about your Faculty Mentor and Faculty Assistant.
Faculty Mentor:
- Your Faculty Mentor will share course content and serve as an excellent resource for discussing previous arrangements with speakers, identifying graders and advice on assessments and grading. In the past, Affiliates have found value in attending sessions taught by their mentors or other members of Faculty to grasp the dynamics of an LBS classroom.
Faculty Assistant:
- You will have a designated Faculty Assistant who will support you with the administrative and logistical aspects of your course delivery. in your course delivery. Their responsibilities include building and publishing courses on Canvas, coordinating with external providers for simulations or guest speakers, managing grading logistics, and processing invoices or timesheets. You can find a comprehensive overview of their responsibilities here.
- Please note that Faculty Assistants are not involved in academic or content-related tasks. This includes recruiting or scheduling guest speakers, creating or updating course outlines or teaching materials, presence in LTs for the duration of the session, assigning grades, or managing academic misconduct cases.
Ahead of your course the relevant Programme Team will also reach out to you.
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We use an online learning management system called Canvas for students to access all their courses and associated materials, to view the syllabus and assessment information and policies, and to submit all their assessments, including online exams.
In practice your faculty assistant will update your course on Canvas, look after all aspects of course administration and will be happy to work with you on the delivery of your teaching, but if you would like to know more about Canvas and to explore the functionality please contact the Education Technology Team edtech@london.edu for a guide tour.
Auditors can be requested to sit in the classroom, but kindly note, they will have no access to materials made available online, nor to Canvas.
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Course Design
Your Faculty Assistant will share with you the latest Course Outline and guide you through the ‘must have’ information that needs to be uploaded six weeks before the first session of the course. This timeline ensures that all internal checks can be completed in time.
Below, you will find an overview of what the Course Outline includes along with a process map outlining key milestone in the course preparation journey.
All lectures delivered in a lecture theatre will be automatically recorded using our Lecture Capture system, Mediasite. These recordings are referred to as "classroom recordings."
If, for any reason, you wish to opt out of having your lectures recorded, please get in touch with your subject area manager to make the necessary arrangements. To find out more information, please click the link below:
To successfully pass a Core, Tailored Core or Elective Course, students are required to achieve the following minimum requirements:
A minimum of 50% overall; and
A minimum of 50% across the weighted average of individual assessment component/s excluding class participation; and
Satisfy any attendance requirements where applicable.*
*Student attendance is monitored on our Degree Programmes in line with the following objectives:
To enable the School to meet essential UK visa regulations so that LBS can continue to receive students from all over the world
To enable programmes to provide better pastoral care to students
To support students’ success in their courses and throughout their programme.
As stated in the Academic Regulations that all students are expected to attend, be punctual and engage fully in all sessions.
Faculty must define how class participation will be assessed and provide details in the information published to students (at least three weeks before the first session of the course). For more information, please click the link below:
Assignments
Written assignments can be individual or group and are predominantly submitted online via Canvas. Canvas is also fully integrated with Turnitin in order to help identify possible academic misconduct (see Section 2.10 Dealing with Academic Misconduct).
Subject Area staff will manage the logistics for assignments; however, you are responsible for ensuring that the assignment is aimed at the right level for the students.
Retrieval exams are scheduled by Academic Planning & Delivery and will normally be held 6-8 weeks after grade release for the first sitting. Per the Academic Regulations students must receive a minimum two weeks notice of the retrieval.
If a student fails the first-sitting of a Core or Tailored Core course only, they will receive an F* grade and will be offered the opportunity to retrieve a pass. This retrieval assessment:
replaces all previous assessment scores
tests all the course’s learning outcomes
is graded on a pass/fail basis.
For elective courses, there is no opportunity to retrieve a fail grade for the specific course. Students may carry one elective fail on their transcript and are permitted to take another elective depending on the programme.
The Assessment Team manages the delivery of all exams for core and elective courses. The Assessment Team is responsible for all exam logistics including: preparation of printed materials, invigilation and communications with students.
Effective from 22 February 2023, reusing exam papers or recycling exam questions is not permitted. The purpose of exams is to rigorously and fairly test learning. To achieve the intended outcome, faculty should prepare exams that are original and unpredictable as appropriate.
The deadline for submitting the draft exam paper is 3 weeks before the exam takes place to allow for review by External Examiners and time for faculty to consider the External Examiners’ comments and make any changes. The External Examiners are given 10 working days to review the materials.
Extenuating circumstances (EC) requests are submitted by students in order to:
Miss an assessment
Drop an elective/tailored core course, or
Sit an exam remotely.
They are formally considered in accordance with the School's EC Policy. The policy requires students to submit evidence to demonstrate that their circumstances meet the necessary criteria to be approved.
If a student advises you that they are not able to submit an assignment, sit an exam or that they want to drop your course because of possible ECs, refer them to the Programme Office who will advise the student re the EC process. Please do not decide yourself whether to approve a request so that the due process can be followed and to ensure that all students are being treated consistently.
Students are also advised not to approach faculty to make individual/special arrangements or to seek support for their requests. They are advised at the start of their programme, and reminded at varying points throughout, what the correct process is.
All EC requests are considered by the School Panel, who make decisions in accordance with the School’s EC Policy.
Internal moderation is the School’s key internal mechanism that ensures grades awarded to students are consistently applied across the course. The aims of internal moderation are:
to ensure an assessment has been graded in line with the stated assessment criteria;
to assure internal consistency of assessment within a course;
to provide assurance for students of fairness and equality of grading for all students.
All Faculty (“core” and affiliate) are expected to moderate a similar number of streams/courses as they teach.
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Policies and guidance
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Extenuating circumstances (EC) requests are submitted by students in order to:
Miss an assessment
Drop an elective/tailored core course, or
Sit an exam remotely.
They are formally considered in accordance with the School's EC Policy. The policy requires students to submit evidence to demonstrate that their circumstances meet the necessary criteria to be approved.
If a student advises you that they are not able to submit an assignment, sit an exam or that they want to drop your course because of possible ECs, refer them to the Programme Office who will advise the student re the EC process. Please do not decide yourself whether to approve a request so that the due process can be followed and to ensure that all students are being treated consistently.
Students are also advised not to approach faculty to make individual/special arrangements or to seek support for their requests. They are advised at the start of their programme, and reminded at varying points throughout, what the correct process is.
All EC requests are considered by the School Panel, who make decisions in accordance with the School’s EC Policy.
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Student Wellbeing Services provide advice, guidance and information relating to disability, health, or wellbeing. Disabled students including students experiencing mental health or wellbeing issues are encouraged to register with Student Wellbeing Services (wellbeing@london.edu) to discuss potential support relating to accessibility and reasonable adjustments (see page 7 for more information). If you have any concerns about a student’s wellbeing, please contact Student Wellbeing Services straightaway.
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Grading
A supplementary fee will be paid to you for grading of core and elective classes where the classes have more than 30 students. This will be paid at the rate of £26 for each student in excess of 30 students for a 10-week course (and pro rata for longer or shorter courses).
For example, on a 10-week course with 40 students you would be paid a grading allowance of 10 x £26 = £260.
On a 10-week course with 40 students where you deliver only 5 sessions, you would be paid a grading allowance of 10 x £26 x 0.5 = £130
The grading allowance is calculated based on the number of sessions you will deliver and the number of students who attend the class.
You do not get a grading allowance for courses with less than 30 students.
If you wish you can use a grader sourced internally at the School. If you do so, you must arrange payment of the grader via a contract and should contact you Subject Area Manager to arrange this. If this cost exceeds the amount you receive in your supplementary fee, you must reduce your fees by the amount paid to the internal grader on your behalf.
Alternatively you might decide to use a grader sourced externally, if so payment of any grading supplement will be made directly to you, and you will then be responsible for any payment made to the external grader, and for compliance with any tax, immigration or other statutory requirements in the use of such a grading resource. In all cases it is your responsibility to ensure the quality and completion of all grading whether you do it yourself or it is done by a grader.
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Faculty must not release final letter grades (for either core or electives) to students directly – this is managed by the Assessment team following the required internal and external checks.
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The Academic Policy Committee sets minimum standards for assessment feedback to ensure students understand their grades and receive guidance for improvement. The APC recognise the increasingly excessive demands for feedback from students so have developed key principles
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Teaching feedback
Students are asked for their feedback at the end of each course regarding the quality of the course, the teacher's performance and the quality of student assessments. Teaching evaluation summary reports are then produced and sent to the teacher (with photocopies of each of the completed forms), and also to the Subject Area Chair, the Deputy Dean (Faculty), and the Research & Faculty Office. Evaluation scores for elective courses are made available to students within Canvas.
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Invoices
Invoices should be submitted once your teaching has been completed and the associated marking of coursework, or setting and marking of exams, has been completed. Please email your invoices to facultyhr@london.edu ensuring that you include the following information in order to avoid delays in payment:
Course code
Title
Your name (even if you are billing through a company)
The number of points you are billing for
The rate you are billing for
The dates the course ran
Invoice number
Invoice date
PO number
School aims to settle invoices within 30 days of receipt. As a self-employed contractor, you will be responsible for making any income tax, National Insurance and Social Security contributions where applicable.
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