Time, class and privilege in career imagination: Exploring study-to-work transition of Chinese international students in UK universities through a Bourdieusian lens (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). Time, class and privilege in career imagination: Exploring study-to-work transition of Chinese international students in UK universities through a Bourdieusian lens. Time and Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X20951333

Existing research and policy on international students’ study-to-work transition fall short of a temporal theoretical perspective that is sensitive to the fluid and class-stratified nature of their career imagination. Career imagination refers to how... Read More about Time, class and privilege in career imagination: Exploring study-to-work transition of Chinese international students in UK universities through a Bourdieusian lens.

Coping with negative workplace gossip: The joint roles of self-monitoring and impression management tactics (2019)
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(2019). Coping with negative workplace gossip: The joint roles of self-monitoring and impression management tactics. Personality and Individual Differences, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2019.06.025

Although researchers have examined the effects of negative workplace gossip on target employees’ work-related behavior, it remains unclear when and how personality traits play a role between negative workplace gossip and organizational citizenship be... Read More about Coping with negative workplace gossip: The joint roles of self-monitoring and impression management tactics.

Ethnicity, temporality and educational mobilities: Comparing the ethnic identity constructions of Mongolian and Tibetan students in China (2019)
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(2019). Ethnicity, temporality and educational mobilities: Comparing the ethnic identity constructions of Mongolian and Tibetan students in China. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 631-646. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2019.1576121

This paper explores the impact of educational mobilities on the ethnic identity construction of minority students in China. Adopting ‘temporality’ as an analytical tool, this paper highlights the dynamic temporal multiplicity in ethnic identity const... Read More about Ethnicity, temporality and educational mobilities: Comparing the ethnic identity constructions of Mongolian and Tibetan students in China.

Co-Producing Community and Individual Change through Theatrical Interventions (2019)
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(2019). Co-Producing Community and Individual Change through Theatrical Interventions. Organizational Aesthetics, 34 -50

This article sheds light on the role of co-produced creative methods in creating change, with particular reference to marginalized communities and taboo topics. In doing so, the paper offers a vignette of a day-long theatrical outreach event explorin... Read More about Co-Producing Community and Individual Change through Theatrical Interventions.

Volunteers as monstrous workers:'monsters' in UK live-action roleplay game organizations (2019)
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(2019). Volunteers as monstrous workers:'monsters' in UK live-action roleplay game organizations. Culture and Organization, 233-248. https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2016.1241254

This paper examines volunteers as workers in the leisure activity of festival-scale UK live-action roleplaying. The descriptive term ‘monsters’ is native within the field, referring to volunteer roles often involving dramatic performance of a ‘villai... Read More about Volunteers as monstrous workers:'monsters' in UK live-action roleplay game organizations.

Inside the Ivory Tower: Narratives of women of colour surviving and thriving in British Academia (2017) Eds. Deborah Gabriel and Shirley Ann Tate, London: Trentham Books, IOE Press, 164 pages, £24.36 (Book review) (2018)
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(2018). Inside the Ivory Tower: Narratives of women of colour surviving and thriving in British Academia (2017) Eds. Deborah Gabriel and Shirley Ann Tate, London: Trentham Books, IOE Press, 164 pages, £24.36 (Book review). Gender, Work and Organization, https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12273

Book review.

Design and Creative Methods as a Practice of Liminality in Community-Academic Research Projects (2018)
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(2018). Design and Creative Methods as a Practice of Liminality in Community-Academic Research Projects. Design Journal, 605-624. https://doi.org/10.1080/14606925.2018.1469329

This paper aims to explore the types of spaces and experiences that are created by design and creative practices. More specifically, it focuses on how design and creative practices can engender transformations in the mindset, knowledge, emotions and... Read More about Design and Creative Methods as a Practice of Liminality in Community-Academic Research Projects.

The challenges of police-community collaboration: Identity manoeuvres and power struggles in a neighbourhood based meeting (2017)
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(2017). The challenges of police-community collaboration: Identity manoeuvres and power struggles in a neighbourhood based meeting. Public Management Review, 1353-1373. https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2017.1383718

The turn to collaborative governance is a key feature of the New Public Governance environment in many Western economies. Within the UK, successive governments have mandated policing organizations to engage in public service partnerships and collabor... Read More about The challenges of police-community collaboration: Identity manoeuvres and power struggles in a neighbourhood based meeting.

Sports events and social interaction: Examining antecedents of spectators’ value creation (2017)
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(2017). Sports events and social interaction: Examining antecedents of spectators’ value creation. European Sport Management Quarterly, 193-215. https://doi.org/10.1080/16184742.2017.1361459

Research question: Spectating at sports events comprises on-pitch and off-pitch benefits. Value may also derive from spectator-to-spectator interaction, however, we do not know whether all types of interaction have similar effects on value creation a... Read More about Sports events and social interaction: Examining antecedents of spectators’ value creation.

The role of community leadership in disaster recovery projects: Tsunami lessons from Japan (2016)
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(2016). The role of community leadership in disaster recovery projects: Tsunami lessons from Japan. International Journal of Project Management, 913-924. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijproman.2016.09.005

While project management has been effectively applied to many fields and sectors, disaster management has yet to see its full benefits. This inductive study generates insights about the nature and role of ‘active leadership’ (LaBrosse, 2007) in the c... Read More about The role of community leadership in disaster recovery projects: Tsunami lessons from Japan.

Editorial; Ethnography beyond the Country and the City: Understanding the Symbolic Terrain of Rural Spaces (2016)
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(2016). Editorial; Ethnography beyond the Country and the City: Understanding the Symbolic Terrain of Rural Spaces. Ethnography, 297-308. https://doi.org/10.1177/1466138115609374

Ethnography beyond the country and the city: understanding the symbolic terrain of rural spaces (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Ethnography beyond the country and the city: understanding the symbolic terrain of rural spaces. Ethnography, 297-308. https://doi.org/10.1177/1466138115609374

Editorial.

The Role of creative Methods in Re-defining the Impact Agenda (2015)
Book
(2015). The Role of creative Methods in Re-defining the Impact Agenda

Collaborative research for sustainability: an inside-out design manifesto (2015)
Book
(2015). Collaborative research for sustainability: an inside-out design manifesto

Brands at Work: The Search for Meaning in Mundane Work (2015)
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(2015). Brands at Work: The Search for Meaning in Mundane Work. Organization Studies, 29 - 53. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840614553382

Brand scholarship traditionally resides within the marketing literature and focuses on organizations’ external relationships with customers. However, increasing critical attention in organization studies has focused on the brand in order to understan... Read More about Brands at Work: The Search for Meaning in Mundane Work.

'Girls Who Do Boys Like They're Girls'? Exploring the Role of Gender in the Junior Management of Contemporary Service Work (2009)
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(2009). 'Girls Who Do Boys Like They're Girls'? Exploring the Role of Gender in the Junior Management of Contemporary Service Work. Gender, Work and Organization, 119 -141. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0432.2009.00493.x

This article attempts to explain the clustering of women managers at junior managerial grades in the service sector by focusing on the structuring and organization of work in a call centre. The article is based on an ethnography of an organization an... Read More about 'Girls Who Do Boys Like They're Girls'? Exploring the Role of Gender in the Junior Management of Contemporary Service Work.

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Exploring Women's Experience of Participation and Progress in ManagerialCareers (2009)
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(2009). Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Exploring Women's Experience of Participation and Progress in ManagerialCareers. Equal Opportunities International, 378 -397. https://doi.org/10.1108/02610150910964240

Purpose
The growth of women in management has been argued to offer a route to reduce organizational and social inequality. The purpose of this paper is to explore the careers and experiences of female managers from a variety of organizations operati... Read More about Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Exploring Women's Experience of Participation and Progress in ManagerialCareers.