Seminar series - Work and Organisation

After the successful series last year, we are back with a new, exciting schedule for the upcoming academic year. Our Seminar Series is the result of excellent speaker suggestions from our faculty members and a shortlisting based on both academic and diversity criteria.

The speakers work on a variety of topics in workplace, employment, organisation and public policy, with a good mix of theory and empirical research.

Faculty and research students are all encouraged to attend the seminars, participate, and meet speakers following the instructions sent weekly by our Business School Research Team.

Below is the full schedule for this academic year. We hope that you enjoy.

Teaching block one

  • 03/10/2024 – Elke Weik, University of Southern Denmark

Past seminars

  • 30/04/2024 - Natasha Iskander, New York University
  • 14/05/2024 - Katy Jones, Manchester Metropolitan University
  • 21/05/2024 - Annie Irvine, University of York
  • 3/10/2024 -  Elke Weik, University of Southern Denmark

     Title: "AI vs. Bildung: Can we study management and organization joyfully?" 

  • 23/10/24 -  Professor Janne Tienari, Hanken School of Economics (Finland) 

     Title: "Moomin Management" (Bristol University Press book Launch)

  • 19/11/2024 -  Professor Stephen Woods, University of Surrey

     Title: "A critical Perspective on Cognitive Testing for Selection into Graduate and Higher Professional Occupations and Reflections on  Future Alternatives" 

  • 5/12/2024 - Professor Brigid Carroll, University of Aukland (New Zealand) 

     Title: "The Governmentality of Hope: Retheorizing Hope in Leadership"

  • 18/02/2025 - Professor Natasha Iskander, New York University 

     Title: " Doing research in Authoritarian Settings"- Participatory workshop

  • 25/02/2025 -  Professor Dalia Gesualdi-Fecteau, Université de Québec à Montréal

     Title: "What is Better Work and Worse Work: An Analytical Framework"

  • 25/03/2025 - Professor Jenna Ward, University of Coventry 

     Title: "The Salience of Emotion in Understanding What, Why and with What Effects do Managers of Volunteers Do What They do"

  • 1/04/2025 - Lecturer Karen Bilsland, University of Glasgow

     Title: “ Walking Interviews in Organizational Research”

  • 17/04/2025 - Professor Rodrigo Nunes, University of Essex

     Title: " The Question of Political Organisation (and How to Return to It)?”

  • 6/05/2025 - Professor Jean Jenkins, Cardiff University 

     Title: "What Lies Behind a Grievance? Discipline, Exploitation and Control in the 21st Century Garment Factory”

  • 13/05/2025- Zoe Sanderson, University of Bristol

     Title: “Developing Critical Perspectives in Work and Organisational Psychology Research”