All Outputs (18)

Navigating vulnerability and resilience: Pregnant women's experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic (2025)
Book Chapter

The chapter examines the labelling of pregnant women as vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK, examining its implications and the broader concept of vulnerability. While the labelling aimed to protect pregnant women, it also reinforced ge... Read More about Navigating vulnerability and resilience: Pregnant women's experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic.

‘Carry on laughing and I’ll punish you as well!’: Humour, power, and relationship negotiation in a prison workshop (2025)
Journal Article

Drawing on a 10-month ethnographic study of a private prison in the UK, this paper examines how humour is used between prisoners and prison staff to negotiate working relationships in prison. We show how both the presence and absence of humour can sh... Read More about ‘Carry on laughing and I’ll punish you as well!’: Humour, power, and relationship negotiation in a prison workshop.

"Before we open our mouths, society has labelled us": Double jeopardy and the identity of Black, female trailblazers (2025)
Book Chapter

The notion of vulnerability characterises the separated nature of cultural contexts, uniting women through the pernicious need for coping mechanisms. Confronting the ‘double jeopardy’ of race and gender (Beal, 2008), female minorities are at highest... Read More about "Before we open our mouths, society has labelled us": Double jeopardy and the identity of Black, female trailblazers.

Creatively navigating ethical approval in ethnographic festival research (2024)
Book Chapter

This chapter delves into the ethical challenges of critical events research, focusing on different creative methods for on-site qualitative data collection, including participant consent, at music festivals and which methodological pathways are the m... Read More about Creatively navigating ethical approval in ethnographic festival research.

(Doing) Time is money: Confinement, prison work and the reproduction of carceral capitalism (2024)
Journal Article

This article examines how prison work functions as a site where neoliberal and carceral capitalist logics are reproduced across individual, organisational and societal levels. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in a private UK prison, we argu... Read More about (Doing) Time is money: Confinement, prison work and the reproduction of carceral capitalism.

The invisible labour of new mothers on maternity leave in a global pandemic (2024)
Report

This report examines how the Covid-19 pandemic profoundly reshaped mothers' experiences during maternity leave, with a particular focus on the invisible labour they perform. Invisible labour, often unacknowledged and uncompensated, is a significant y... Read More about The invisible labour of new mothers on maternity leave in a global pandemic.

When workplace humour turns into conflict: Exploring HR practices in the case of conflict management (2023)
Journal Article

Purpose: Although humour and conflict are popular topics in management, little attention has been paid to the negative effects of humour in terms of how workplace humour could turn into unexpected conflicts. From the perspective of conflict managemen... Read More about When workplace humour turns into conflict: Exploring HR practices in the case of conflict management.

Deception as a moral project: Covert research and the construction of the ethical-self (2022)
Book Chapter

In this chapter, the author explores the ethical continuum through a reflection on her own “identity work” during her fieldwork, considering how the ethics of doing covert research are always complex, situated and political. She considers how the pow... Read More about Deception as a moral project: Covert research and the construction of the ethical-self.

Too close for comfort? The challenges and unexpected consequences of immersed ethnography (2022)
Book Chapter

This chapter considers the nature of immersed ethnography and its importance to the study of organizations, and also provides some context for the fieldwork. This is followed by an analysis of some of the methodological challenges, emotion work, and... Read More about Too close for comfort? The challenges and unexpected consequences of immersed ethnography.

Outlining a practical, emotional and reflexive approach to organizational ethnography (2022)
Book Chapter

First and foremost we want this book to be a practical guide. We want to show readers the real experiences of ethnographers conducting this type of research, particularly as a vast majority of contemporary texts centred on ethnographic work still pre... Read More about Outlining a practical, emotional and reflexive approach to organizational ethnography.

Organizational Ethnography: An Experiential and Practical Guide (2022)
Book

This textbook explores practices, first-hand experiences and emerging ideas within organizational ethnography, providing a toolkit that prepares ethnographers for the uncertainties and realities of fieldworking.

Students faced with the complexitie... Read More about Organizational Ethnography: An Experiential and Practical Guide.

Removing The Rose-Tinted Glasses. Fear, risk and being uncomfortable in ethnographic fieldwork (2022)
Book Chapter

This chapter draws on the authors experiences of research in prison and the police force to stress the value in analysing the stories ethnographers do not tell: the stories of self that cast us as imperfect, emotional and flawed. We reflect on how do... Read More about Removing The Rose-Tinted Glasses. Fear, risk and being uncomfortable in ethnographic fieldwork.

Risky Business? The Value of Employing Offenders and Ex-Offenders: An Interview With James Timpson, Chief Executive of Timpson (2019)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2019. This interview with James Timpson, Chief Executive of Timpson retailers, explores his innovative approach to recruitment and empowerment in the workplace. James Timpson is passionate about the employment of ex-offenders, working... Read More about Risky Business? The Value of Employing Offenders and Ex-Offenders: An Interview With James Timpson, Chief Executive of Timpson.

‘I am a person who works’: The stigmatised prisoner identity and the work self as redeemer (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Based on the findings of a ten-month ethnography of prisoners incarcerated in a British prison, this paper addresses how prisoners negotiate between two divergent identities, the criminal self and the work self to manage stigma. Two categories of pri... Read More about ‘I am a person who works’: The stigmatised prisoner identity and the work self as redeemer.

The nurturing of ‘good’ capitalists: Prisoners and private prison labour (2018)
Journal Article

This paper draws on a ten-month ethnographic study of private prison work in a UK prison to drawn attention to the prevalence of neoliberalism; even in an institution as secreted and isolated as a prison, the neoliberal ideology can flourish. Prisone... Read More about The nurturing of ‘good’ capitalists: Prisoners and private prison labour.

Captive in cycles of invisibility? Prisoners’ work for the private sector (2018)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2018. This article critiques a case of modern prison-labour by exploring prisoners’ attitudes towards the prison-work they undertake while incarcerated. The study is based at a privatised male prison in the UK, assigned the pseudonym... Read More about Captive in cycles of invisibility? Prisoners’ work for the private sector.

Orange-collar workers: An ethnographic study of modern prison labour (2015)
Thesis

Work routines are integral to prison life. One recent development, at the behest of the government, especially in privatised prisons, has been the contracting out of work by private companies to prison. This type of work is usually organised under th... Read More about Orange-collar workers: An ethnographic study of modern prison labour.

Teabags, tools and getting my hands dirty: The female outsider in the total (male) institution (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper discusses the complex role that gender plays for the female researcher in a male prison. I reflect on how gender influenced my research outcomes and my experience of the field by drawing on ethnographic research in a total (male) instituti... Read More about Teabags, tools and getting my hands dirty: The female outsider in the total (male) institution.