Between 2007 and 2018a Paul was a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at AMBS. In 2015, he was awarded The University of Manchester Distinguished Achievement Award Teacher of the Year for his outstanding contribution to innovation in teaching and excellence in education. He was MBS Academic of the Year for undergraduate programmes in 2011 and a member of the MBS Teaching Academy. He is an alumnus of the International Teachers Programme, which he attended at Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Chicago in 2011.

Paul has supervised six PhD researchers to completion. Most recently, in 2020 and 2019, Isabelle Velasquez Bellido and Jose Pineda Mendoza completed their theses exploring the relationship between corporate financial performance and corporate sustainability performance in Latin American countries, and the process of formalisation in developing countries respectively. In 2018, Yu Chia Ko completed his thesis exploring the role of government policy in supporting the UK's carbon capture and storage technology innovation system. In 2017, Nichola Hutson completed her thesis exploring the institutional work of an industry association in the greening of industrial sectors. In 2016, Oliver Laasch completed his thesis exploring business model change through embedding corporate responsibility-sustainability: logics, devices and actor networks. In 2014, Leonie Dendler completed her thesis exploring the effectiveness of sustainability meta-labelling.