Professor of Organization Studies Research into digital working lives, identity & work, sustainable work patterns, sociomateriality, qual research
Royal Holloway
Joined August 2013
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Very grateful to colleagues, speakers, attending clergy, @ESRC & Father Christopher @SBarnabasOxford for enabling such a great day & to Laura Sorvala @_auralab for her fab artistic efforts #ESRCFestival #clergywellbeing
Inspiring workshop on #demands of #ministry - great talks @LizGraveling @churchofengland Neil Conway @RHULManagement @Revd_Gill @oxforddiocese - thoughtful insights from #clergy participants - many thanks to hosts @SBarnabasOxford - picture @_auralab #calling #wellbeing #support
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@GillianSymon led an event at the @ESRC Festival of Social Sciences bringing together clergy to generate ideas to address wellbeing in the Church of England. Key themes were captured by @_auralab in this fantastic illustration, a brilliant example of research presented visually!
Event for clergy, part of the #ESRC Festival of Social Science, 24 October in Oxford #clergy #anglican #churchofengland #clergywellbeing More details below ⬇️
Struggling with the demands of modern ministry? Sign up for our event in Oxford on 24th October, open to clergy from priests-in-training to area deans tinyurl.com/BeyondCalling #ESRCFestival @GillianSymon @DrRWhiting @rft158 @ClergySupportUK @churchofengland @oxforddiocese
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How our lives, our planet and our mental health got trashed by something we scarcely understand: a doctrine that changed everything. Neoliberalism.
This week's column.
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Our study terrace is open 9am - 7pm daily, perfect for taking a break to enjoy the beautiful weather! ☀️
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Excited that my lab will present our latest paper at #CHI2024! 📊✨
We studied tools that empower gig workers to collect their own workplace data. Our paper adds structure to the worker tooling movement with insights from interviews+co-design studies.
🧪arxiv.org/pdf/2403.09986
ALT screenshot of doctor savage's paper over a pink vintage image of robots and workers.
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The miserly tale of how a university took its staff’s wages – and the public paid the price | Aditya Chakrabortty theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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✍️NEW BLOG!
Rebecca Taylor @rft158 on her Digit Innovation Funded project exploring the unpaid labour of open source software development.
👉digit-research.org/blog_arti…
@ESRC @LeedsUniBSchool @SussexUBusiness
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New analysis of @REF_2021 impact case studies shows 10 year time-lag between publication of research and impact repository.jisc.ac.uk/9321/1…
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And here it is! In this paper, #AngeloBenozzo, me and @ProfCVPriola, discuss how a new materialist methodology can offer new ways to approach the study of management by focusing on the phenomenon of working from home. @BJM_BAM @OUBSchool
Excellent to see this out @WillBarnesx It’s a beautiful paper! 👏👏👏🤩 @RHULDocSchool @RHULGeography @RHULManagement
My first publication! 📑
Co-authored with David Gilbert and the late Claire Dwyer, the article presents my undergrad diss. research on the collective creativity and iconography of @GuildCath’s kneelers.
In @JofHistGeog and open access - check it out! ➡️ sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
ALT An image of one of Guildford Cathedral’s kneelers, which portrays the Soviet Union’s Sputnik satellite along with two Pentecostal flames and a background of planets and stars.
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New #OpenAccess article by Aleks Deejay and Kathryn Henne on technosocial relations and regulated sociality during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read now below.
doi.org/10.1177/003803852312…
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only a few weeks till I retire. Attended my last @RoyalHolloway Leadership Forum yesterday. Our Vice Chancellor @ProfJSanders said a very nice farewell to me in front of everyone & that I was a "very special colleague". everyone applauded, was very proud of myself.
ALT I am standing wearing my guide dog harness. You can see me from the side and my head is tilted. I stand in front of a mirrored glass panel with a screen on top. The screen shows the logo of Royal Holloway University of London. The mirrored glass reflects a buffet table and mum croushing while taking the photo
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📖 Dr Edward Granter is guest editing a special issue of Organization journal (@orgjournal) on 'academic freedom'. The title is: From organizing freedom in the academy to academic freedom as an organizing principle: What is at stake?
journals.sagepub.com/pb-asse…
ALT Front cover of the September 2023 Organization journal
Many thanks to research participants, co-authors, reviewers, editors & publishers @wileyglobal for enabling this - our #videodiaries allowed us to capture otherwise #invisiblework practices @_RHResearch @RHULManagement @HRMOS_RHUL
I am pleased that our paper w/ @GillianSymon and @DrRWhiting on how hybridity and liminality helps us explain contemporary #boundarywork in the era of #digitaltechnologies has been published in the @isj_ais doi.org/10.1111/isj.12477 #WorkLifeBalance #boundarymanagement
Congratulations Najmeh! 👏👏 @RHULManagement @_RHResearch
Nice way to start this week with the news that after a long wait, our paper @neilpollock '#DigitalConsumers and the new #search practices of #borndigital organisations' has been published in one of my favourite journals 'Information and Organization'
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Congratulations in particular to HRMOS colleagues in this list @Prof_LSpence @chrisgreybrexit Prof Alice Lam and Prof Rosemary Deem - fitting recognition of your intellectual insights and academic dedication 👏👏👏 @_RHResearch @Stanford #influentialscientists
We’re pleased to announce eight experts from @RoyalHolloway's School of Business and Management have been named in the top 2% of the world’s most influential scientists by Stanford University. 🌟
Read more here: royalholloway.ac.uk/research…
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Good friends @sarahsdin & @LuRHUL had their vivas within weeks of each other and both passed 👏👏🎉🎉 Thanks to all examiners for thoughtful qs. Testament to #resilience of Sarah & Lu working hard despite #pandemic measures. Picture here is Lu Li with viva team @drlouiseashley
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We have three posts available in our department partly because we are expanding. Two are in HRM L or SL) jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vac… and one in Org Studies jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vac…. We are a friendly and supportive dept - you would enjoy working here! Please apply and/or RT/pass on
