Centre for Work, Organisation and Society (CWOS)

Our academic staff frequently feature within the wider press and media. Below are some examples of their latest appearances:

• David Watson is a member of the MEND collective - Management Educators Navigating Degrowth (MEND) collective. The collective explores teaching post-growth and degrowth ideas in management education and associated challenges. The group was initially funded by a grant from the UK and Ireland Chapter of the Principles for Responsible Management Education.

• Read The Conversation featuring research by Professor Elisabeth Kelan:

1. How you can future-proof your career in the era of AI
2. How men can become role models for gender inclusivity in the workplace
3. AI can reinforce discrimination – but used correctly it could make hiring practices more inclusive

• COVID-19 has created 'a crisis within a crisis' for live performance in the UK.
• Find out more about research at our organisational change management blog.

• Read the HR review Three times more women in entry-level HR roles than men, but few reach executive level.
• Read The Harvard Business Review Why aren't we making more progress towards gender equity? which features research by Professor Elisabeth Kelan. 

Book series and collections edited by members of CWOS include:

• Fu, H. (2019) Temporary Agency Work and Globalisation: Beyond Flexibility and Inequality. Routledge.
• Hammer, A. and Fishwick, A. (2020) The Political Economy of Work in the Global South: Reflections on Labour Process Theory, Critical perspectives on work and employment series. London: Red Globe Press. 
• The Routledge Studies in Gender and Organisations series, edited by Elisabeth Kelan.
• Klarsfeld, A., Booysen, L. A., Ng, E., Roper, I., & Tatli, A. (Eds.). (2014). Country Perspectives on Diversity and Equal Treatment. Edward Elgar Publishing.
• Shani A.B., Guerci M., Cirella S. (eds) (2014) Collaborative Management Research. Milan: Raffaello Cortina Editore. 

Textbooks produced by CWOS members include:

• Cirella S. (2015) Teoria e Pratica del Comportamento Organizzativo. Carocci Editore, Rome.
• Roper, I., Prouska, R., Chatrakul, U. and Ayudha, N. (2019) Critical Issues in Human Resource Management. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. 

 Recent special issues guest edited by CWOS members include:

• ‘Diversity in the work-life interface’, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. 39(5).
• 'Emotion, aesthetics and sexuality at work: Theoretical challenges and future directions’, Gender, Work and Organisation. 27(1).
• 'Exploring the emergence of moderate feminism(s) in contemporary organisations’, Gender, Work and Organisation. 26(8).
• 'Sexual politics, organisational practices: Interrogating queer theory, work and organisation’, Gender, Work and Organisation. 23(1).
• ‘Spaces and places of remembering and commemoration’, Organisation. 23(1).

Research grants awarded to members include: 

• A British Academy small grant to study the impact of COVID on live performers in the UK
• Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship and British Academy small grant to study the future of work, artificial intelligence and gender