Dr Sophie Hales
Email
shales@essex.ac.ukTelephone
+44 (0) 1206 872402
Location
EBS.3.127F, Colchester Campus
Biography
Dr Sophie Hales is a Lecturer in Organization Studies at Essex Business School. She joined the Business School in April 2019, having previously held a Senior Lectureship in Management at Anglia Ruskin University. Her research interests include gender, sexuality and the body in organizations; lived experiences of work; emotional, aesthetic and sexualised labour, and organizational space and materiality. She received her PhD from the University of Essex in 2017. Her research, which was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, focused on lived experiences of women working in the UK strip industry. Sophie has published widely on her research in leading academic peer-reviewed journals such as Organization Studies and Organization as well as contributing chapters in edited books including The Handbook of Age, Diversity and Work. She regularly presents her work at international conferences such as the Gender, Work and Organization Conference and the International Critical Management Studies Conference.
Qualifications
PhD Management University of Essex,
MRes Management Research University of Essex,
Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching Anglia Ruskin University,
BSc Psychology University of Essex,
