All Outputs (30)

Curating salutogenic spaces in post-pandemic hybrid work environments: A photo-elicitation qualitative study (2024)
Journal Article

This article investigates the lived experience of hybrid working and the impact this has on knowledge workers’ psychosocial health and wellbeing. Specifically, we focus on how the workplace can promote or hinder wellbeing and how hybrid working is ex... Read More about Curating salutogenic spaces in post-pandemic hybrid work environments: A photo-elicitation qualitative study.

From data to strata? How design professionals “see” energy use in buildings (2023)
Journal Article

Improving design for efficient energy use in the built environment is a critical area for decarbonisation policy and practice. To date, this research emphasises improving tools and technology for predicting and managing energy use in buildings. No st... Read More about From data to strata? How design professionals “see” energy use in buildings.

Learning to inhabit the liquid liminal world of work: An auto-ethnographic visual study of work-life boundary transitions (2022)
Journal Article

This article explores a conceptually modified notion of liminality in order to make better sense of contemporary ‘flexible’ working life. Previous conceptualizations of liminality rely on the assumed existence of socially sustained boundaries and the... Read More about Learning to inhabit the liquid liminal world of work: An auto-ethnographic visual study of work-life boundary transitions.

Reflections from the field (mountain, cityscape and park): Walking for management development and links to being-in-the world, belonging and ‘Ba’ (2021)
Journal Article

Purpose: The purpose of this paper, based on reflections from practice, is to shed light on the realities of using walking as a tool for learning and development. This is done through an initial analysis of longitudinal reflective data spanning seven... Read More about Reflections from the field (mountain, cityscape and park): Walking for management development and links to being-in-the world, belonging and ‘Ba’.

Digital Methodologies – Principles and practice of researching online (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Following a successful bid, this UWE research event was funded by the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies (SAMS) and was designed specifically for early career researchers/doctoral students.

Ms Katie Joyce, (UWE) chaired the event... Read More about Digital Methodologies – Principles and practice of researching online.

Desperately seeking ‘selfish’ space: The year of Covid-19, lockdown, and making dens (2021)
Journal Article

Scarred objects and time marks as memory anchors: The significance of scuffs and stains in organisational life (2020)
Journal Article

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

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

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

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.

The post-occupancy evaluation of a university’s ‘new building'. What are we learning about the future of learning and teaching spaces? (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Opened in April 2017, Bristol Business School and Bristol Law School is a £55m flagship space to attract international and home students, facilitate links with businesses, and provide collaborative spaces for everyone to work together. This talk pres... Read More about The post-occupancy evaluation of a university’s ‘new building'. What are we learning about the future of learning and teaching spaces?.

How our clothes tell stories (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Clothes, our wardrobe, style, fashion, dress and the uniforms we wear all say something about who we are,
what we are into, who we work for or what groups we want to belong to. This talk explores how our clothes tell stories, what we wear at work a... Read More about How our clothes tell stories.

The architecture of identity: Sensory investigations in the post-occupancy evaluation of a university’s ‘new building’ #myUWEBBSview (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

We report on preliminary findings from an innovative post-occupancy evaluation of the Bristol Business and Law School’s new building at the Frenchay Campus, University of West of England (UWE), UK. This project is an academic-industry collaboration b... Read More about The architecture of identity: Sensory investigations in the post-occupancy evaluation of a university’s ‘new building’ #myUWEBBSview.

Functional spaces for team working (2019)
Journal Article

With an increased focus on flexible working practices, employers need to be conscious of creating an environment which enhances learning, creativity and knowledge transfer so when teams do come together, they are in the best environment to achieve ma... Read More about Functional spaces for team working.

Cake and the open plan office: A foodscape of work through a Lefebvrian lens (2018)
Book Chapter

This chapter puts food on the workplace menu and explores the interconnectedness of food, work, people and space using Lefebvre’s spatial triad framework (1991) and considers how the social production of space and the micro-geographies of the workpla... Read More about Cake and the open plan office: A foodscape of work through a Lefebvrian lens.

The sounds of the office (2018)
Journal Article

Think about the sounds of your office or place of work. Phones ringing; printer printing; coffee machines percolating; office banter; traffic; laughter; raised voices; steps down a corridor; the hubbub of the canteen; the lift ‘pinging’; the clicking... Read More about The sounds of the office.

Working from home: How to create a stylish yet motivating study room or home office (2018)
Journal Article

Creating a stylish, practical home office is more appealing than ever, with more and more people opting for flexible working or the freelance life.
As such, functional work spaces are fast becoming one of the most important features of a home. But i... Read More about Working from home: How to create a stylish yet motivating study room or home office.

Let art do the work (2018)
Journal Article

In today’s hectic working world, it can often feel like we’re spending more time in the office than we are in our own homes. It’s therefore becoming increasingly important for employers to do what they can to reduce stress, instil a sense of calm and... Read More about Let art do the work.

Grounded Visual Pattern Analysis: Photographs in Organizational Field Studies (2017)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2017. Visual methodologies for researching organizational life have grown in popularity over the past decade, with conceptual and methodological foundations now well documented. However, analytical critique has not kept pace, and so i... Read More about Grounded Visual Pattern Analysis: Photographs in Organizational Field Studies.

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.