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Deception as a moral project: Covert research and the construction of the ethical-self (2022)
Book Chapter
Tarrabain, C. (2022). Deception as a moral project: Covert research and the construction of the ethical-self. In J. Pandeli, N. Sutherland, & H. Gaggiotti (Eds.), Organisational Ethnography: An Experiential and Practical Guide (115-126). London: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

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
Weller, S. (2022). Too close for comfort? The challenges and unexpected consequences of immersed ethnography. In J. Pandeli, N. Sutherland, & H. Gaggiotti (Eds.), Organizational Ethnography (34-49). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003021582-4

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
Pandeli, J., Sutherland, N., & Gaggiotti, H. (2022). Outlining a practical, emotional and reflexive approach to organizational ethnography. In J. Pandeli, N. Sutherland, & H. Gaggiotti (Eds.), Organizational Ethnography An Experiential and Practical Guide (1-12). Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

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
Pandeli, J., Sutherland, N., & Gaggiotti, H. (Eds.). (2022). Organizational Ethnography: An Experiential and Practical Guide. Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003021582

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
Pandeli, J., & Alcadipani, R. (2022). Removing The Rose-Tinted Glasses. Fear, risk and being uncomfortable in ethnographic fieldwork. In J. Pandeli, N. Sutherland, & H. Gaggiotti (Eds.), . Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

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
Pandeli, J., & O’Regan, N. (2020). Risky Business? The Value of Employing Offenders and Ex-Offenders: An Interview With James Timpson, Chief Executive of Timpson. Journal of Management Inquiry, 29(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/1056492619836167

© 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
Pandeli, J. (2018, September). ‘I am a person who works’: The stigmatised prisoner identity and the work self as redeemer. Paper presented at British Academy of Management Conference 2018, UWE Bristol, England

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
Pandeli, J. (2018). The nurturing of ‘good’ capitalists: Prisoners and private prison labour. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2018(1), 14696. https://doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2018.14696abstract

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
Pandeli, J., Marinetto, M., & Jenkins, J. (2019). Captive in cycles of invisibility? Prisoners’ work for the private sector. Work, Employment and Society, 33(4), 596-612. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017018777712

© 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
Pandeli, J. (in press). Orange-collar workers: An ethnographic study of modern prison labour. (Thesis). Cardiff University. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/802850

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
Pandeli, J. (2015, August). Teabags, tools and getting my hands dirty: The female outsider in the total (male) institution. Paper presented at Ethnography Symposium 2015, Liverpool, UK

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.