Dr Deborah Kerfoot
- Title
- Lecturer
- Location
- Smart Innovation Hub, 1.033
- Phone
- +44 (0)1782 733429
- d.kerfoot@keele.ac.uk
Biography
I joined Keele Business School from Leeds University Business School following completion of my PhD at Manchester University (Management, UMIST), where I also undertook post doctoral research, and taught subsequently. My research interests and publications are in the sociology and critical studies in management, work and organisation; empirical research on management and management practices; and gender and diversity in organisations. Formerly joint Editor in Chief of the journal Gender, Work and Organization (Wiley, USA) 2000-2019, I instigated at Keele (2001-2016) the Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference of the journal, attracting approximately 400 international scholars in the field. My current focus centres on gender and entrepreneurship, and enterprise and business start-up.
Research and scholarship
My interests lie in the fields of sociology and critical studies in management, work and organisation; empirical research on management and management practices; and gender and diversity in organisations.
I am happy to supervise PhD students with similar interests that go beyond describing gender as a simplistic binary.
- Critical studies of equality and diversity in organisations
- Gender and management
- Gender theory
- Harvey Cottrell, PhD full time, 'Deindustrialisation as cultural process: Exploring identity formation among former steelworkers after site closure.'
- Bethany Edge, PhD full time, 'Where science meets service? The co-existence of gendered identity discourses in community pharmacies'
Further information
Current PhD students
- Bethany Edge `Conflict in community pharmacy? When private industry meets the UK public health sector'
I am interested in supervising work on gender and diversity in organisations.
Selected Publications
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2012. MANAGING PEOPLE: CONTEXTS OF HRM, DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL INEQUALITY. In Introducing Organizational Behaviour: Second Edition. Knights D and Willmott H (Eds.). (2nd ed.). Centage Learning.
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2010. Organizing Entrepreneurship? Women, invisibility, and self-employment. In Revealing and Concealing Gender: Issues of Visibility in Organizations. Lewis P and Simpson R (Eds.). Palgrave MacMillan.
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2009. Gay men at work: (re)constructing the self as professional. Human Relations, 763-786, vol. 62(5). doi>
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2007. The gendered organisation. In Routledge international encyclopedia of men and masculinities. Flood M, Gardiner JK, Pease B, Pringle K (Eds.). London: Taylor and Francis Publications.
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2005. Gender and front-line service work. Gender, Work and Organisation, 387-399, vol. 12(5). doi>
Full Publications Listshow
Journal Articles
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2009. Gay men at work: (re)constructing the self as professional. Human Relations, 763-786, vol. 62(5). doi>
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2005. Gender and front-line service work. Gender, Work and Organisation, 387-399, vol. 12(5). doi>
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2004. Between representations and subjectivity: Gender binaries and the politics of organisational transformation. 430-454, vol. 4(11). doi>
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2002. Rethinking gender, work and organization. Gender, Work and Organization, 473-481, vol. 9(5). doi>
Chapters
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2012. MANAGING PEOPLE: CONTEXTS OF HRM, DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL INEQUALITY. In Introducing Organizational Behaviour: Second Edition. Knights D and Willmott H (Eds.). (2nd ed.). Centage Learning.
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2010. Organizing Entrepreneurship? Women, invisibility, and self-employment. In Revealing and Concealing Gender: Issues of Visibility in Organizations. Lewis P and Simpson R (Eds.). Palgrave MacMillan.
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2007. The gendered organisation. In Routledge international encyclopedia of men and masculinities. Flood M, Gardiner JK, Pease B, Pringle K (Eds.). London: Taylor and Francis Publications.
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2005. Pour une ambivalence reflexive du genre: critique du binaire homes-femmes et transformation des organisations. In Gouvernement, organisations et gestion: l'heritage de Michal Foucault. Hatchuel A, Pezet E, Starkey K, Lenay O (Eds.).
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2003. The problematic professional: gender and the transgression of professional identity. In Gender and the public sector: professional and managerial change. Barry J and Dent M (Eds.). Routledge, London.
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2002. Managing the professional man. In Managing Professional Idetities: Knowledge, Performativity and the New Professional. Dent M and Whitehead S (Eds.). Routledge, London.
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2001. Problematising co-operative strategy in uk public sector management: a case study in education. In Collaborative Strategies and Multi-Organizational Partnerships. Taillieu T (Ed.). Garant, Leuven/Apeldoorm.
Other
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2004. Conference proceedings "Work, Employment and Society Conference". 'Starting up Inequality'? The case of a self employment workforce.
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2003. Beyond representations and subjectivity gender binaries and the politics of organizational transformation.
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2003. Constituting the entrepreneural self: gender and entrepreneurship.
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2003. Constituting the entrepreneural self: gender and entrepreneurship.
Keele Business School
Denise Coates Foundation Building
Keele University
Staffordshire
ST5 5AA
Tel: +44 (0) 1782 733430
Undergraduate enquiries:
Tel: +44 (0) 1782 733430
Email: kbs.ug@keele.ac.uk
Postgraduate enquiries:
Tel: +44 (0) 1782 733430
Email: kbs.pg@keele.ac.uk
