Personal Chair of Management and Organisation Studies and Head of Organisation Studies Group
Roles and Responsibilities
I hold a Personal Chair in Management and Organisation Studies and have taught at Undergraduate, Postgraduate and Executive levels in the UK, Singapore and Sri Lanka. Prior to academia I worked in the construction industry. My current roles include:
- Head of the Organisation Studies Group (A vibrant community of 22 academics, find out more about us at https://www.business-school.ed.ac.uk/research/areas/organisation-studies)
- Member of the School Executive Committee
- Course Organiser
- PhD Supervisor
- MSc Dissertation Supervisor
At its broadest, my research is about people’s lived experiences of their work and workplaces. More specifically, my interests are organizational control, individual and occupational identities, and the social construction of meaning in organizations. My work has been published in top-tier journals such as Organization Studies, Human Relations, Work, Employment and Society and Journal of Management Inquiry. My work has attracted funding from UKRI, The British Academy of Management and The Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Background
- PhD (Organization Studies, University of Warwick, Pass with no corrections)
- MSc (Management and Organization, University College Dublin, First class honours)
- BSc (Management and Marketing, Dublin Institute of Technology, First class honours)
- Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Academic Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development (CIPD)