All Outputs (21)

There's an app for that! Utilising technology to gamify student engagement (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

What can video games like Pokémon teach us about improving student engagement? In this session you will learn how to utilise underexplored features of Instagram and Blackboard to gamify the student experience and ultimately increase engagement. These... Read More about There's an app for that! Utilising technology to gamify student engagement.

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.

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.

Putting leadership in its place: Introduction to the special issue (2022)
Journal Article

This special issue emerges from a call for papers issued following the 18th International Studying Leadership Conference, hosted at the University of the West of England in December 2019, which addressed the theme of ‘Putting leadership in its place’... Read More about Putting leadership in its place: Introduction to the special issue.

Dynamic Conversations: Do parasocial relationships in online learning communities reinforce or reduce power imbalances between staff and students? (2022)
Digital Artefact

From our first edition of Dynamic Conversations: Learning Communities, Neil Sutherland CMBE and Rachel Williams of Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, explore how parasocial relationships in online learning communities affect... Read More about Dynamic Conversations: Do parasocial relationships in online learning communities reinforce or reduce power imbalances between staff and students?.

Dynamic conversations: Utilising social media to create a sense of community (2021)
Digital Artefact

Dynamic conversations edition 1: Learning communities

From our first edition of Dynamic Conversations: Learning Communities, Neil Sutherland CMBE and Rachel Williams of Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, explore how social... Read More about Dynamic conversations: Utilising social media to create a sense of community.

"I feel like I am part of a community": Creating social presence at a programme level through Facebook groups (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this presentation we reflect on the importance of creating social presence at a programme level, specifically in virtual environments. Briefly defined, social presence is the degree to which participants feel like they feel a part of, and know oth... Read More about "I feel like I am part of a community": Creating social presence at a programme level through Facebook groups.

Problematizing leadership learning facilitation through a trickster archetype: An investigation into power and identity in liminal spaces (2021)
Journal Article

This study uses the archetype of a ‘trickster’ to reflect back on, and hence problematize, the role of the educator/facilitator identity in leadership learning. This is based on the view that a trickster is a permanent resident in liminal spaces and... Read More about Problematizing leadership learning facilitation through a trickster archetype: An investigation into power and identity in liminal spaces.

The seven unsustainabilities of mainstream leadership (2018)
Book Chapter

Innovation in Environmental Leadership offers innovative approaches to leadership from a post-industrial and ecological vantage point. Chapters in this collection are written by leading scholars and practitioners of environmental leadership from arou... Read More about The seven unsustainabilities of mainstream leadership.

Beyond unsustainable leadership: critical social theory for sustainable leadership (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017, © Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to prepare the conceptual groundwork for the future study of leadership for sustainable development. The paper demonstrates the relevance of Critical Leadership Studies to fu... Read More about Beyond unsustainable leadership: critical social theory for sustainable leadership.

Investigating leadership ethnographically: Opportunities and potentialities (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, The Author(s). Whilst recent years have seen increasingly ethnographic-focussed writings in Organisation Studies, similar developments have not been mirrored within Leadership Studies, where the field is still dominated by positivistic approa... Read More about Investigating leadership ethnographically: Opportunities and potentialities.

'Studying Leadership Ethnographically: Reflections of a first-time ethnographer' (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The last two decades have seen an increase in the number of ethnographic writings in Organisation Studies more generally, however, similar developments have not been mirrored within Leadership Studies, where – despite a recent interpretivist ‘shift’... Read More about 'Studying Leadership Ethnographically: Reflections of a first-time ethnographer'.

Leadership without leaders: Understanding leaderless organising through the lens of critical leadership studies (2015)
Book Chapter

Using a 'Twist in the Tale' to teach critical leadership studies: Reflections and implications (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper augments recent discussions around teaching Critical Leadership Studies (CLS) by suggesting that tutors should not only consider the content of CLS-centric teaching, but also how the narrative of critical modules impacts on efficacious lea... Read More about Using a 'Twist in the Tale' to teach critical leadership studies: Reflections and implications.

Reflective walking and leadership learning (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper takes a relational (e.g. Cunliffe and Eriksen, 2011) and community (e.g. Edwards, 2011) perspective of leadership learning and development as a basis for problematizing the monotheistic and unitary link made between self-development and le... Read More about Reflective walking and leadership learning.

Searching for leadership, democracy and participation (2014)
Thesis

In this thesis I will examine how leadership is understood and performed within leaderless organisations. Rather than assuming a stance more readily associated with ‘mainstream’ leadership theory and suggesting that leadership can only happen if ther... Read More about Searching for leadership, democracy and participation.

Anti-leaders(hip) in Social Movement Organizations: The case of autonomous grassroots groups (2014)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2013. Through the Arab Spring and the Occupy movement, the idea of horizontal, leaderless organization has come to the attention of the mass media. In this article we explore radical, participative-democratic alternatives to leadershi... Read More about Anti-leaders(hip) in Social Movement Organizations: The case of autonomous grassroots groups.

Review: Direct action, deliberation and diffusion: Collective action after the WTO protests in Seattle (2013)
Journal Article

In Direct Action, Deliberation and Diffusion: Collective Action after the WTO protests in Seattle, Lesley Wood seeks to examine the micro-level interactions that influenced the diffusion of the cluster of tactics associated with the 1999 World Trade... Read More about Review: Direct action, deliberation and diffusion: Collective action after the WTO protests in Seattle.

Leadership without leaders? (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Although there has been growing interest in Organization and Management Studies (OMS) and Critical Management Studies (CMS) in Social Movement Organizations (SMOs) in recent years, there is little research examining the organizational processes of an... Read More about Leadership without leaders?.

Social movements and activist ethnography (2013)
Journal Article