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. Her ideas are disseminated widely via speaking engagements and publication in leading academic and practitioner journals and edited collections, including several papers concerned with dignity at work, the human in human resource management, alternative ways of conceptualising workplace emotionality, 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 the Work and Society Research Network ( http://www.workandsociety.com/); a developing international community of academics, policy-makers, 'think tanks', businesses and employee organisations who are all interested in the material realities of work, its organisation and experience. The Network is committed to leading edge, sociologically informed research which is reflective, offers critical insight and, ultimately, has use value. Sharon is also co-organising the International Labour Process Conference 2008, is editorial board member of two journals: Work, Employment and Society and Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management, is chair of the departmental ethics committee and teaches research ethics 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.
Research Publications
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