Work and Organisation – research activities

The Work and Organisation group organises regular lunchtime seminars, taking place Wednesdays during the semester, in person.

Please contact the Head of group Professor Eva Selenko for more information.

Grants and projects

Group members regularly achieve funding for research from research councils, government, professional bodies and industry. The web pages for individual staff give more detail about this.

Recently funded projects

ESRC

• ESRC – Making the zero-carbon standard home: Understanding project-firm innovation in UK house building - Dan Sage (with Prof Andrew Dainty, Prof Martin Sexton (Reading) and Dr Libby Schweber (Reading))
• ‘Careers of allied health professionals in and outside the UK National Health Service’ – John Arnold, John Loan-Clarke, Crispin Coombs.

Research grants

• T Richie Rodger Research Fund of the British Psychological Society four-year grant for project on examining anomalous cases in person-occupation fit, John Arnold
• Advance HE fund five-year grant for project: Onwards and Upwards - a large-scale multi-method analysis of the leadership and carer experiences of women working in academic and professional services roles in the UK and Irish higher education sector, John Arnold
• Hans-Böckler Foundation, Düsseldorf, Economies of the Future programme, Principal Investigator of a two-year grant for project on European MNCs and their Asia-Pacific subsidiaries, Catherine Casey
• European Commission Horizon 2020 programme, Principal Investigator of a three-year grant for project on Communities of Practice for Gender Equality, Sarah Barnard
• Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, Principal Investigator of a five-year grant for project Longitudinal Study on Women’s experiences of leadership in higher education, Sarah Barnard
• Chartered Institute of Building project on LGBT in Construction: Exploring Experiences to Inform Inclusive Practices, Sarah Barnard
• ESRC: Making the Zero-Carbon Standard Home: Project-Firm Innovation in UK Housebuilding; two-year grant, Dan Sage
• ESRC: Enhancing the use of Resilience Direct in the Covid-19 response: a comparative analysis of Local Resilience Forums. Dan Sage
• British Academy Grant, Eva Selenko
• European Association of Work & Organisational Psychology Grant, Jo Silvester

Collaborations

Group members have collaborative links with other leading researchers throughout the UK and overseas. The following information illustrates some recent collaborations.

• Dan Sage and Catherine Rees (º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ) are collaborating on research into the gendering of drama education and the theatre industry.
• Dan Sage, Pete Fussey (University of Essex) and Andrew Dainty (º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ) are collaborating on a research project into the material and organisational geographies of infrastructure resiliency networks.
• Eva Selenko is collaborating with Hans De Witte (KU Leuven, Belgium) on a research project connecting social identity, job insecurity and organisational and political behavior. She is also collaborating with Ilke Inceoglu (University of Exeter) and Almuth McDowall (Birkbeck University, UK) on a project on the career-effects of student placements.
• Iain Coyne is collaborating with Dr Carolyn Axtell, Dr Christine Sprigg and Dr Samuel Farley at Sheffield University on research into workplace cyberbullying. Also, Dr Coyne is working with Advance Consultancy on the development of a personality-based suitability-to-collaborate tool and with Arctic Shores on their games-based assessments.

Policy impact

Much of the research undertaken by group members has tangible policy, as well as academic impact.

Members of our group are repeatedly called upon to consult businesses, policymakers and third sector organisations with their research knowledge.

Most recently, Prof Jo Silvester, Dr Iain Coyne and Dr Cheryl Travers have been accepted as members of the Parliamentary Project Delivery Community of Practice. In this role they will be giving evidence and consult on issues related to worker well-being, bullying and leadership.

External collaborations

Work and Organisation group members participate in collaborative research with national and international associates at numerous universities:

• King's College London
• University of Kent
• Queen Mary University of London
• Auckland University of Technology
• Maastricht University
• TIAS School for Business & Society, Tilburg University
• University of North Carolina
• Florida State University
• D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University
• Sapienza, University of Rome
• The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Charles Strut University
• Chalmers University of Technology
• University of Copenhagen
• Trinity College Dublin
• University of Leuven
• Universidade Federal de Uberlândia
• National Sun Yat-sen University
• University of Sheffield
• University of Bath
• University of West of England
• University of Auckland
• L'École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay
• Griffith University
• University of Reading
• Lancaster University
• University of Leicester
• University of Manchester
• Nottingham Trent University
• Inland Norway University
• University College London
• Edinburgh University
• Warwick University
• Hafen City University
• Charles Strut University
• Imperial College London
• University of Nottingham
• Coventry University
• EM Normandie, France
• University of Alabama
• Darden School of Business, University of Virginia
• Centre for Social Ontology, Grenoble Ecole de Management
• Hull University Business School
• University of Toronto
• Singapore Management University
• Leuphana University Lüneburg
• Ludwigsburg University of Applied Sciences
• University of Hohenheim
• Kennesaw State University
• KU Leuven
• University of Mainz
• Helmut-Schmidt University of Hamburg
• Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
• University of Glasgow
• The University of Sheffield
• The University of Leeds
• Quinnipiac University
• Clemson University
• University of Central Florida
• George Mason University
• University of Jyväskylä
• Johannes-Kepler University of Linz
• Universidad Católica de Chile
• Ludwigsburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Collaboration with non-academic institutions

• Cumberland Lodge
• Royal Society of Engineering
• House of Commons
• Westminster Foundation for Democracy (Balkans)
• Liberal Democrat Party
• Conservative Party
• Local Government Leadership
• Civil Service Learning
• New Zealand Parliament
• Hans-Böckler Foundation, Düsseldorf
• European Trade Union Institute
• Ministry of Science and Technology, Portugal
• Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV, Germany
• Church of England
• Advance HE
• Department of Work and Pensions
• Eurofound

Publications

Journals

• Work and Occupations
• Journal of Organisational Behaviour
• Human Relations
• Journal of Management Studies
• Organisation Studies
• Work Employment and Society
• British Journal of Industrial Relations
• International Journal of Human Resource Management
• Organisation
• Human Relations
• British Journal of Management
• Work and Stress
• Journal of Occupational and Organisational Psychology
• Journal of Vocational Behavior
• International Journal of Management Reviews
• Journal of Business Ethics
• Research In Ethical Issues in Organisations

Books

• Sage, DJ (2014) How Outer Space Made America: Geography, Organisation and the Cosmic Sublime. Ashgate
• Monks, C. M., & Coyne, I. (Eds.). (2011). Bullying in Different Contexts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Casey, C. (2012). Economy, Work and Education: Critical Connections. London and New York: Routledge.
• Hemingway, C.A. (2014). Corporate social entrepreneurship : integrity within. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

International activities

Our members collaborate intensely with leading academics from across the globe. We also regularly welcome international academic visitors to our group.

Below are examples of institutions where our international collaborators come from:

• Auckland University of Technology
• Clemson University
• Darden School of Business, University of Virginia
• Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
• George Mason University
• Griffith University
• Johannes-Kepler University of Linz
• Katholieke Universiteit (KU) Leuven
• Kennesaw State University
• L'École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay
• Leuphana University Lüneburg
• Ludwigsburg University of Applied Sciences
• Maastricht University
• Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
• Singapore Management University
• Stockholm University
• The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• TIAS School for Business & Society, Tilburg University
• Trinity College Dublin
• Universidade Federal de Uberlândia
• University of Alabama
• University of Auckland
• University of Bremen
• University of Central Florida
• University of Copenhagen
• University of Hohenheim
• University of Mainz
• University of North Carolina
• University of Toronto

Past international academic visitors

• Professor Hans De Witte, KU Leuven
• Professor Adrian Wilkinson, Griffith University

Journal editorships and editorial board memberships

• John Arnold, Editorial Board member, Journal of Occupational and Organisational Psychology
• Sarah Barnard, Editorial Board member, Work, Employment & Society
• Catherine Casey, Editorial Board member, Organisation
• Christine Coupland, Senior Editor, Organisation Studies
• Christine Coupland, Co-Editor Special issue Management Learning
• Christine Coupland, Co-Editor Special issue Organisation (forthcoming 2022)
• Iain Coyne, Consultant Editor of the British Psychological Society Test Reviews
• Eva Selenko, Associate Editor, Applied Psychology: An International Review
• Eva Selenko, Editorial Board member, Scandinavian Journal of Work and Organisational Psychology
• Clive Trusson, Editorial Board Member, New Technology, Work and Employment

Visiting positions, external roles and esteem

Esteem activities among Work and Organisation group members also include numerous keynote and other invited presentations and papers to UK and international audiences; the design and delivery of various invited workshops and seminars involving academic and professional participants; consultancy activities, conference session organising and chairing, and policy advisories with academic, government, and civil society organisations.

• Trustee, T Richie Rodger Research Fund of the British Psychological Society – John Arnold
• Co-Chair, Social Sciences Project Grants Panels, Portuguese Ministry of Science and Technology – Catherine Casey
• Expert Associate Hans-Böckler Foundation, Düsseldorf – Catherine Casey
• Expert Consultant, Joint Ireland / UK Seminar, DIRECT, Belfast – Catherine Casey
• Member of Scientific Advisory Board, TASC - Think-Tank for Action on Social Change, Dublin – Catherine Casey
• Expert Consultant, UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, Hamburg - Catherine Casey
• Visiting Professor, University of Auckland – Catherine Casey
• Vice-President of the International Sociological Association’s Participation, Organisational Democracy and Self-Management committee – Catherine Casey
• Board Member of the European Sociological Association’s Work, Employment and Industrial Relations network – Catherine Casey
• Co-Organiser and Chair, Society for Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) mini conference, University of California at Berkeley – Catherine Casey
• Honorary Chair, University of St Andrews – Christine Coupland
• Co-organiser of the Dignity and Respect at Work Intervention Group (DRAWING) – Iain Coyne
• Visiting Professor, Griffith University – Eva Selenko
• Fellow of Cumberland Lodge – Eva Selenko
• Member of Business School Advisory Board, BSS University of Aarhus – Jo Silvester

Conferences

Academic members of our group regularly organise symposia and present their research at international conferences, in form of keynotes, paper and poster presentations.

Get in touch if you would like to organise a symposium with us.

Conferences where our group’s research is regularly featured:

• Academy of Management conference (AoM)
• Conference of Experimental Psychologists
• Critical Management Studies Conference
• Division of Occupational Psychology conference (DOP)
• European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology conference (EAOHP)
• European Association of Work and Organisational Psychology congress (EAWOP)
• European Group of Organisation Studies (EGOS)
• European Sociological Association
• International Association on Workplace Bullying and Harassment Conference
• International Labour and Employment Relations Association
• International Sociological Association
• Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology (SIOP)
• Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics
• Southern Management Association