Keele Management School

I joined Keele Management School in 2011 as a Lecturer of Management having previously worked as a sessional Lecturer/Tutor in the areas of Management, People and Organisations and Research Methods.  I was awarded my PhD (Keele) in 2011 for my work on Apprenticeships and young male workers.  Since 2004, I have also achieved a MBA (Keele), Masters in Research (Keele), Post Graduate Certificate in Organisational Change and Management Development (MMU).

Prior to my career in academia I held a number of senior management positions within the Manufacturing Sector, principally within Supply Chain, Operations, Project Management and Production Planning Management.

My current academic interests bridge a number of themes including workplace learning, gendered roles, workplace discourse, Government Policy and organisational socialisation.  These themes are demonstrated in my PhD thesis in which I explore the Modern Apprenticeship scheme through a critical lens, drawing on the theoretical insights of Michel Foucault.  On a broader theme, I am interested in ethnographic approaches to research and I am Editorial Assistant for the Journal of Organisational Ethnography.