Prof. Sally Rumbles is a Principal Lecturer and Course Director for all the Postgraduate and Undergraduate HRM courses at the University of Portsmouth where she has worked for over two decades.

Prof. Rumbles holds a Doctor of Business Administration in Human Resource Management from the University of Portsmouth. She holds a Master's degree in HRM and a BA Honours in Psychology. She is a fellow of the Higher Education Institute, and a Chartered Member of Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

Prof. Rumbles has extensive experience of teaching and learning in higher education. She has taught on most of the HRM related modules at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her research focus is on employee engagement, change management and wellbeing. She has attended and presented at international conferences as well as published in journals in this area. Her academic career was preceded by many years as a human resource professional, in both public and private sectors latterly as an HR manager in a large defense company.