Education: BA (Hons) Organisation Studies (UCLAN), PhD Management (Lancaster University Management School)
Sharon is best known for her research concerning the management of emotion in organisations and, most recently, her conceptualisation of different dimensions of dignity at work and how this translates into managerial practice. Her ideas are disseminated widely via speaking engagements and publication in leading academic and practitioner journals and edited collections, including several papers concerned with conceptualising workplace emotionality, dignity at work, the human in human resource management, public sector management and nursing, and gender and the professions. The origins of Sharon’s interests lie in some perennial questions concerning how can we better understand the relationship between people, work and society, and what is the fundamental conception of humanity embedded in the political economy.
Currently Sharon is engaged in developing an Anglo-Hellenic Doctoral Community in partnership with the Athens Institute of Education and Research (ATINER), where she is Head of the Management Research Division. Sharon is also director of workandsociety.com, a website offering information on current developments in research on people, organisation and society.
In the Department of Management, Strathclyde Business School, Sharon acts as Research Director, Honours Year Co-ordinator and Chair of the Departmental Ethics Committee. She teaches research ethics, and gender and management to post-graduate students, and management and organisation studies to undergraduate students.
Prior to joining Strathclyde Business School in March 2007, Sharon spent seven years at Lancaster University Management School. In her previous life, she worked as a Senior Administrator in the public and private sectors.
