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The Organisation Studies �鶹��Ƶ Cluster (OSC) takes a critical approach to studying processes of organising and organisations. Our research projects are framed around four theoretical focal points: workplace identity, alternative organising, relations of domination and critical methodologies.

Workplace identity

The words work and life unbalanced on a seesaw

Women’s careers: Beyond organizational boundaries

This British Academy/Leverhumle funded research project, led by Penny Dick and conducted in collaboration with Women to Work, a local business with social aims, challenges conventional assumptions about how women's career paths differ to those of men.

Leaders for business-as-unusual: exploring and sharing the experiences of business leaders who work uncompromisingly for ecological sustainability

The recording and production of interviews with Progressive Green Business Leaders and delivery of two events helped to develop understanding for academics and business people about the possibilities for leading, organising and researching in times of ecological emergency. The project is co-led by Stephen Allen and Charles Barthold at Open University, UK.

Leadership in alternative organisations: exploring Quaker organising

This project, which is led by Stephen Allen, explores leadership and power dynamics in alternative organisations which are not capitalist, managerialist or hierarchical.

Decolonizing Management Knowledge and Education: Emerging themes in public debate and developing understanding of reflexive discomfort

This project by reviewing literature, interviewing activists and mapping decolonising initiatives is exploring meanings and actions for decolonising management knowledge and education. The project is led by Stephen Allen and Emanuela Girei.

Power and exploitation within the cosmetics industry

This project, led by David Hollis, focuses on two main areas: The corporealizing and subjectivizing effects of 'making up' the face; and how 'authentically feminine leadership' discourses materially exploit lower-paid women workers.

Reducing academic flying

Stephen Allen's research involves exploring: academic identities and flying; universities internationalisation and academics’ flying; and, personal and university benefits of academics flying less.

A hard copy of Stephen Allen's new book.

Entangled Being and Organizing

Stephen Allen has published a book which is about prompting imaginings of possibilities for responsible being and collective flourishing that can be hopeful for us all.

The CCO Data Collective

The Communicative Constitution of Organization (CCO) Data Collective is an ongoing project that brings together international scholars to jointly analyze data from CCO, relationality, and performativity perspectives in face-to-face and online forums.

Challenging Gendered Media Mis(s)Representations of Women Professionals and Leaders

The ESRC seminar series grant facilitated an investigation into how women professionals and leaders are misrepresented across all forms of media; from broadsheet newspapers to television programmes and social media.

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