Harriet Shortt's Outputs (31)

Drawing in business and management research (2017)
Book Chapter

Visual methodologies are slowly gaining acceptance in business and management research. However, the term visual methodology is largely perceived to reflect the production and or analysis of photographs, films, video and corporate visual artefacts (R... Read More about Drawing in business and management research.

In the car on the M4 - my transitory dwelling place, my space in-between (2017)
Journal Article

As Work Wise Commute Smart Week comes to a close, I thought I might write a piece that, I hope, will raise some thoughts and reflections about how and why our commutes might offer a space for escape and freedom. Taking a critical, analytical view her... Read More about In the car on the M4 - my transitory dwelling place, my space in-between.

‘Dress and the female professional: A case study of working woman’ (2016)
Book Chapter

A visual semiotic approach to the analysis of Working Woman magazine, a mid-1980s UK publication aimed at professional women. We argue that many of today's women leaders and managers were socialised into their understandings of what it means to be a... Read More about ‘Dress and the female professional: A case study of working woman’.

Liminality, space and the importance of ‘transitory dwelling places’ at work (2014)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2015. This article draws attention to the spaces in-between and employees’ lived experiences of liminal spaces at work. It illustrates how and why liminal spaces are used and made meaningful by workers, in contrast to the dominant spa... Read More about Liminality, space and the importance of ‘transitory dwelling places’ at work.

Sounds of the salon: The auditory routines of hairdressers at work (2013)
Journal Article

This article broadens the landscape of sensual ways of knowing and understanding and takes account of what we hear at work. In particular, I examine what role sounds play in the everyday lives of employees and why sounds are notable in organisational... Read More about Sounds of the salon: The auditory routines of hairdressers at work.

Evaluation in management education: A visual approach to drawing out emotion in student learning (2013)
Journal Article

This article introduces a confluent method of evaluation from the qualitative paradigm that encourages student feedback via a sensory route, namely, participant-produced drawings. Through a phenomenological qualitative inquiry carried out at a UK uni... Read More about Evaluation in management education: A visual approach to drawing out emotion in student learning.

Visual workplace identities: Objects, emotion and resistance (2013)
Book Chapter

Fringe benefits: valuing the visual in narratives of hairdressers' identities at work (2012)
Journal Article

In this article, we focus on the use of respondent-led photography, as a narrative method through which we may research identity at work. We base our argument on empirical data drawn from a wider research study, the aim of which was to explore the id... Read More about Fringe benefits: valuing the visual in narratives of hairdressers' identities at work.

Identityscapes of a hair salon: Work identities and the value of visual methods (2012)
Journal Article

This article considers how one group of workers, hairdressers, use aspects of their material landscape of work as important resources in the production and re-production of their work identities. It shows how the participants of the study use the spa... Read More about Identityscapes of a hair salon: Work identities and the value of visual methods.

SCOS as ‘recovery’…reflections on my first SCOS and stitching myself back together
Book Chapter

To me, SCOS means recovery. SCOS is a community where members enthuse and inspire each other and at the annual conference, which for me and many European colleagues is held towards the end of each academic year, there is an opportunity to reignite re... Read More about SCOS as ‘recovery’…reflections on my first SCOS and stitching myself back together.

Using Arts-based Research Methods: Creative Approaches for Researching Business, Organisation and Humanities
Book

This edited collection will showcase a selection of arts-based research methods used in the empirical study of business, management and the humanities. Each chapter is written by an expert in a single arts-based research method including poetry, draw... Read More about Using Arts-based Research Methods: Creative Approaches for Researching Business, Organisation and Humanities.