All Outputs (29)

‘Dress and the female professional: A case study of working woman’ (2016)
Book Chapter
Rippin, A., Shortt, H., & Warren, S. (2016). ‘Dress and the female professional: A case study of working woman’. In S. Mavin, V. Stead, J. Williams, & C. Elliot (Eds.), Volume V: Gender, Media and Organization: Challenging Mis(s)Representations of Women Leaders and Managers in the ILA Women and Leadership Book Series (95-110). USA: Information Age Publishing

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
Shortt, H. (2015). Liminality, space and the importance of ‘transitory dwelling places’ at work. Human Relations, 68(4), 633-658. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726714536938

© 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
Shortt, H. (2013). Sounds of the salon: The auditory routines of hairdressers at work. International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion, 5(4), 342-356. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJWOE.2013.057400

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
Ward, J., & Shortt, H. (2013). Evaluation in management education: A visual approach to drawing out emotion in student learning. Management Learning, 44(5), 435-452. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350507612459169

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
Betts, J., Shortt, H., & Warren, S. (2013). Visual workplace identities: Objects, emotion and resistance. In E. Bell, S. Warren, & J. E. Schroeder (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Visual Organization. Routledge

Fringe benefits: valuing the visual in narratives of hairdressers' identities at work (2012)
Journal Article
Shortt, H., & Warren, S. (2012). Fringe benefits: valuing the visual in narratives of hairdressers' identities at work. Visual Studies, 27(1), 18-34. https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2012.642955

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
Shortt, H. (2012). Identityscapes of a hair salon: Work identities and the value of visual methods. Sociological Research Online, 17(2), 22. https://doi.org/10.5153/sro.2690

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.

Using Arts-based Research Methods: Creative Approaches for Researching Business, Organisation and Humanities
Book
Ward, J., & Shortt, H. J. Ward, & H. Shortt (Eds.), Using Arts-based Research Methods: Creative Approaches for Researching Business, Organisation and Humanities. Palgrave Macmillan

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.

SCOS as ‘recovery’…reflections on my first SCOS and stitching myself back together
Book Chapter
Shortt, H. SCOS as ‘recovery’…reflections on my first SCOS and stitching myself back together. In L. Mitchell, & T. Lennerfors (Eds.), SCOS: Searching for our Collective Soul. PuntOorg

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.