Dr Caroline Gatrell is based in the School of Management at Lancaster University. Her main research area is interdisciplinary and centres upon parenting and employment, gender and work-life balance.

Caroline’s main teaching interests are in PhD study and she is an experienced teacher and supervisor of both younger PhD students (often full-time) and mature post-experience students (often part-time). Caroline has experience of developing and delivering research training for PhD students, including on Lancaster’s cross-disciplinary PhD in Management. She has a strong track record of gaining funding to support research students through their studies.

Caroline’s teaching interests in part-time PhD study are integrated with her research on managing the process of part-time PhD study. Caroline has recently contributed as keynote speaker and facilitator to a two day workshop for senior academics at the Missenden Centre for the Development of Higher Education: Supervising post-experience part-time PhD Students.