Dr Fariba Darabi is a Senior Lecturer in Management at Bangor Business School. Prior to joining academia in 2008 she had a successful career in International Business working for a range of companies including SMEs and multi-nationals. She has a wide range of leadership experience having led teams both in industry and academia. Fariba undertakes disciplinary and pedagogic research working collaboratively with universities internationally, as well as being actively involved in learned societies including the British Academy of Management (BAM) and the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD).

Fariba’s main foci of teaching are International Business including International Business Competences, Global Supply Chain Management, Entrepreneurship, and Research Methods. She has also taught on student led consultancy projects, real world business projects and supervised projects and dissertations, and led courses and programmes at undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral levels. She is external examiner for International Business Programmes at the Glasgow University’s Adam Smith Business School.

Recognised as an experienced educator, Fariba mentors colleagues. She also disseminates best practice widely via her leadership positions in learned societies, conferences and publications. Her leadership, including the introduction of innovative pedagogic practices, was recognised in 2021 through the award of a Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). In 2022 she was appointed as visiting professor at Toulouse School of Management, Toulouse 1 University Capitole, France. Further, her contribution to doctoral education, including support and mentoring of colleagues was recognise in 2020 by the UK Council of Graduate Education (UKCGE) research supervisor award.

Fariba has supervised a number of doctoral students to successful completion in areas of international business and entrepreneurship and regularly examines doctorates in these areas. Recent theses she has supervised include generational issues in family businesses, international joint ventures, academic entrepreneurship, and organisational resilience in turbulent emerging economies. She welcomes doctorate applications from those wishing to work with her in these areas.

Her research focuses on two themes: entrepreneurship and international business. The first is concerned with engaged scholarship (university-industry collaborations), entrepreneurship education, and academic entrepreneurship. The second focuses on global sourcing and supply chains. She also has an interest in research methodologies, particularly mixed methods. In 2022 she was awarded a Knowledge Transfer Partnership to support the international growth and commercialisation of an SME providing outdoor education environment equipment. In 2024, she was awarded Skill and Innovation Voucher fund focusing on Generative-AI intiations at a Welsh SME in North Wales. 

As an elected Council member of BAM, and their Management, Knowledge and Education Committee, Fariba is responsible for the Academy’s Education Focussed Professors’ Development Programme. She is also a committee member of the Academy’s Research Methodology Special Interest Group and their Conference Track Chair. Fariba currently serves as member of the EFMD Doctoral Programmes Development Conference Steering Committee supporting doctoral educators around the world.