A5058008558- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Gender Diversity and Inequality
- Retirement, Disability, and Employment
- Management and Organizational Studies
- Menopause: Health Impacts and Treatments
- Emotional Labor in Professions
- Work-Family Balance Challenges
- Gender Roles and Identity Studies
- Historical Gender and Feminism Studies
- Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
- Workplace Health and Well-being
- Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification
- Sex and Gender in Healthcare
- Estrogen and related hormone effects
- Medical Education and Admissions
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Diversity and Career in Medicine
- Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
- Economic Theory and Institutions
- Fashion and Cultural Textiles
- Cultural Industries and Urban Development
- Policing Practices and Perceptions
- Family Business Performance and Succession
Adam Smith Institute
2009-2024
University of Glasgow
2004-2024
Monash University
2014-2023
University College London
2023
Southern University of Science and Technology
2023
Liverpool Women's Hospital
2023
Liverpool Womens NHS Foundation Trust
2023
University of Liverpool
2023
Coventry University
2023
Endometriosis
2023
The increasing importance of reflexivity within social research highlights the construction knowledge in relation to endeavour. However, researcher-orientated notions can often relegate a discussion participant reflexivity. Drawing on two motifs that emerged during analysis interview data from one project, I argue developing Bourdieu's concepts habitus, practical mastery and symbolic allows us understand how reflexivity-in-practice is situated enacted by both parties involved interaction,...
This paper is based on a series of ‘anti-narrative’ interviews designed to explore the ways in which lived experiences age, gender and sexuality are negotiated narrated within organizations later life. It draws Judith Butler’s performative ontology gender, particularly her account desire for recognition shaped by heteronormativity, considering its implications how we study ageing organizations. In doing so, develops critique impact heteronormative life course expectations negotiation viable...
This article seeks to explore how older individuals negotiate and manage their self-identity in relation work while situated without paid employment. After reviewing the current positions of unemployed UK, noting substantial overlap between age disability, we turn our attention conceptualizing lived experiences through exploring `identity work' as a means understanding non-working identity. Based upon focus group interviews, empirical analysis focuses on key dimensions participants' identity...
This article contributes to a sensory equilibrium in studies of workplace life through qualitative study everyday smells UK offices. Drawing on Csordas’ (2008) phenomenology intercorporeality, we develop the concept corporeal porosity as way articulating negotiation bodily integrity organizational experience. We explore smell-orientated interview and diary-based methods our findings highlight interdependence shared, personal, local cultural elementals when experiencing smell office-based...
While many women undergo menopausal transition while they are in paid employment, the effect of poor working conditions on women's experience menopause has received scant empirical attention. We examined associations between employment conditions, work-related stressors, and symptom reporting among perimenopausal postmenopausal women.Data were drawn from an online survey conducted 2013 2014 involving 476 higher education sector Australia. Survey questions assessed demographics;...
This article advances feminist organizational theorizing about embodiment and subjectivity by investigating menopause at work as a temporally constituted phenomenon. We ask how time matters in women’s embodied subjective experiences of work. Theoretically, we draw on writers McNay Grosz to explore the relationship between gendered agency corpus 48 qualitative interviews conducted with women employed two Australian universities their menopause. Our empirical analysis identifies three temporal...
This article explores the methodological possibilities that Butler’s theory of performativity opens up, attempting to ‘translate’ her theoretical ideas into research practice. Specifically, it considers how on organizational subjectivity premised upon a performative ontology might be undertaken. It asks: What form Butler-inspired methodology take? opportunities afford for developing self-reflexive research? political and ethical problems pose researchers, particularly in relation challenges...
Current research into organizational age discrimination has placed a focus on the consequences of ageism and economic pressures an ageing workforce, rather than endeavouring to understand social processes that create reproduce ageist ideologies within context. This article departs from mainstream approaches employment studies in order explore older worker identity as discursive phenomenon. Analysis shows how construction `older worker' may itself serve marginalize contribute towards...
This paper seeks to explore how age diversity is characterised, understood and managed by HR managers responsible for its implementation. With businesses competing at a global level demographic trends changing the landscape of labour market, approach managing workplace equality has been heralded as answer political moral challenges in marrying external competition with internal equality. Nowhere this more influential than recent debates concerning older workers yet, age‐related practices...
This article explores the ways in which male traders negotiate ageing highly competitive world of finance. It draws on a study UK hedge fund to show how processes intersect with masculinity and class-based bodily practices reproduce market-based ideals sector. Through developing concept body accumulation, this provides new framework for exploring an organizational context by demonstrating masculinity, class values are mapped onto traders’ bodies over time that require individuals continually...
Introduction: Menopause usually occurs between the ages of 45 and 55, a time when women are likely to be in paid workforce. Most have menopausal symptoms these may impact on daytime function work performance. This study examines relationship reproductive stage, work, advises how employers can best support women.Methods: An online paper-based survey was completed 2015–16 by 1092 (22% response rate) aged 40 years plus employed three hospitals metropolitan Australia. Survey questions examined...
Nosenography is a theoretical and methodological commitment to uncover the presences practices of smell, an often-ignored sensory feature market consumption spaces. Drawing on prior social science theorizations smell as well contemporary marketing practices, we develop framework understand how features in spatial assemblages bodies, locations experiences. Extending product smells ambient smells, show this can guide knowledge sensing, practice management space. We explain that dynamic unruly...
Abstract Product reuse is most profitable where manufacturers acquire used products in the best possible condition—near new and with little wear tear. This requires consumers, however, to dispose of that still work may be use. Prior scholarship on acquiring consumer for focuses “returns”—products consumers find fault with, or bought error. These, are a fraction all sold available reuse. Importantly, returns motivated by different set factors, than product “disposal.” We explore how...
This paper employs an intersectional lens to explore menopausal experiences of women working in the higher education and healthcare sectors Australia. Open-text responses from surveys across three universities settings were subject a multistage qualitative data analysis. The findings aspects menopause experience that required contend with constellation aged, gendered ableist dynamics normative parameters labor market participation. Reflecting on findings, articulates challenges as issues...
This "Reflections on Europe" marks the end of tercentenary Adam Smith's birth as an opportunity to consider relevance his work beyond epithet "founding father Economics." Recognising limited attribution analysis has had thus far – at least explicitly in modern management commentary, we discuss three themes labour relations, business ethics, and inequality that are also germane contemporary organizational thinking: inequality. In exploring how a Smithian lens affords generative for advancing...
Purpose Literature examining resistant consumer behaviour from an ethical consumption stance has increased over recent years. This paper aims to argue that the conflation between and “anti‐consumption” practices results in a nihilistic reading fails uncover tensions of those who seek position themselves as while still participating general market. Design/methodology/approach The study adopts exploratory approach through semi‐structured in‐depth interviews with purposive sample seven...
Thirty years ago sociological research began to discover what workplace romance might mean for the participants. Since then management has tended adopt a functionalist approach, using survey methods, or third‐party approaches ask about company policy and negative consequences of romance, warning dangers offering solutions managers on how deal with this potential problem. Drawing sexuality organization critical literature, adopting position constructivist structuralism qualitative method,...
In this article, the growing body of literature on transition within central and eastern Europe is developed by exploring how discussing senses may illuminate experience change to post-socialism for urban dwellers. After situating study rich ethnographic heritage transition, key tenets ‘geographies smell’ are outlined as a means inquiry which emphasises lived, sensually embodied transition. The empirical focused upon interrogation meanings created by, attached to, olfactory in contemporary...
This article argues that older age inequality within and across working life is the result of vampiric forms structures constitutive contemporary organizing. Rather than assuming ageism occurs against a backdrop neutral organizational processes practices, denaturalizes (and in process super-naturalizes) orientations ageing through three aspects: (un)dying, regeneration neophilia. These dimensions are used to illustrate how workplace narratives logics normalize perpetuate systematic...
In this article we argue that sexuality is not only an undercurrent of service environments, but integral to the way these workspaces are experienced and negotiated. Through drawing on Sara Ahmed’s (2006a) ‘orientation’ thesis, develop a concept ‘bodyspace’ suggest individuals understand, shape make meaning work spaces through complex sexually-orientated negotiations. Presenting analysis from study UK pubs, explore bodyspace in lived experience workplace three elements orientation:...