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Scarred objects and time marks as memory anchors: The significance of scuffs and stains in organisational life (2020)
Journal Article
Shortt, H., & Izak, M. (2021). Scarred objects and time marks as memory anchors: The significance of scuffs and stains in organisational life. Human Relations, 74(10), 1688-1715. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726720938848

This article lays the workplace under the microscope to examine how scuffs on floors and battered corners on desks – things we define as ‘scarred objects’ – become material autobiographical archives and are made into memory anchors by workers. We exp... Read More about Scarred objects and time marks as memory anchors: The significance of scuffs and stains in organisational life.

A toolkit for living in a new building: A visual post occupancy evaluation of Bristol Business School (2020)
Report
Shortt, H., Cicmil, S., Warren, S., & Gaggiotti, H. (2020). A toolkit for living in a new building: A visual post occupancy evaluation of Bristol Business School. Bristol: University of the West of England

The Bristol Business School building – that houses both Bristol Business School and Bristol Law School – is situated on the University of the West of England (UWE) Bristol Frenchay campus, and has been occupied since April 2017. It is a flagship spac... Read More about A toolkit for living in a new building: A visual post occupancy evaluation of Bristol Business School.

Meet without travel: Life during covid-19 webinar (2020)
Digital Artefact
Joyce, K., & Shortt, H. (2020). Meet without travel: Life during covid-19 webinar. [YouTube Video (Webinar)]

Invited guest speaker for Maverick AV Solutions live Webinar (a global AV distribution organisation) I joined Maverick’s VP for Europe, Global Collaboration Director and Dr Harriet Shortt (UWE) on a live Webinar titled: ‘Meet without Travel'. This... Read More about Meet without travel: Life during covid-19 webinar.

Photography: Using Instagram in participant-led field studies (2020)
Book Chapter
Shortt, H., & Warren, S. (2020). Photography: Using Instagram in participant-led field studies. In Using Arts-based Research Methods: Creative Approaches for Researching Business, Organisation and Humanities (237 - 270). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33069-9_9

In this chapter we discuss how Instagram can be employed as a tool through which researchers may gather visual data during participant-led field studies, as well as how the images available from such platforms usefully shed light on the everydayness... Read More about Photography: Using Instagram in participant-led field studies.