About the team - Organisations, Work & Care

About the team

Organisation, Work and Care Team Members

Current team

  • Maria Breslin
    Research Administration Assistant
    Glasgow Caledonian University

    Research Administration Assistant for Sociology at Glasgow Caledonian University and administrative support on the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) project on Organisation Carescapes: Policies and Practices of Work-related Well-being. Until 31st January 2009.

  • Dr Sophie Bowlby
    Dr Sophie Bowlby
    Senior Lecturer
    University of Reading

    Member of the Political and Cultural Research Group with research interests in feminist social and economic geography of urban areas. Longstanding member of both the RGS/IBG Women and Geography Study Group and the Social and Cultural Study Group. Grant holder on the ESRC Organisation Carescapes: Policies and Practices of Work-related Well-being.

  • Dr Lidia Galabova
    Dr Lidia Galabova
    Assistant Professor of Industrial Management, Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management, Innovation Management and Knowledge Management
    Technical University of Sofia

    From 2007 holds a visiting professor position at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" (SU) in Innovation Management in IT and in Knowledge Management. Research interests are in the field of intellectual capital, work and well-being, innovation and knowledge management. Marie Curie grant holder at Glasgow Caledonian University. Member of the Intellectual Capital Group at Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki.

  • Professor Jeff Hearn
    Professor Jeff Hearn
    Professor of Management and Organization
    Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki

    Professor of Management and Organisations at Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland; Professor of Gender Studies (Critical Studies on Men), Linkoping University, Sweden; and Professor of Sociology, University of Huddersfield, UK. Has published widely on social and political issues, especially on work, welfare, organizations, management, gender, sexuality, violence and cultural studies. Applicant on all three European Work-related Well-being bids in addition to research work with the Hanken Gender Research Group.

  • Professor Gillian Hogg
    Professor Gillian Hogg
    Head of School of Management and Languages
    Heriot-Watt University

    Head of the School of Management and Languages at Heriot-Watt University. Previously Professor and Head of the Marketing Department at University of Strathclyde. Worked for the NHS after graduating and was an NHS manager for 7 years before completing a PhD at the University of Stirling. Research interests include management and marketing of service industries and has just completed a study of consumers' use of the internet as part of the ESRC Cultures of Consumption Programme. Grant holder on the ESF project Work-life Balance: Proofing Policies and Practices and ESRC Organisation Carescapes: Policies and Practices of Work-related Well-being.

  • Dr Marjut Jyrkinen
    Post-doctoral Researcher
    Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki

    Current research interests are 'carescapes'; diversity; diversity management and business organisations; gender and management; globalisation; ICTs; organisational policies. Applicant on all three European Work-related Well-being bids in addition to research work with the Hanken Gender Research Group.

  • Professor Linda McKie
    Professor Linda McKie
    Professor of Sociology
    Glasgow Caledonian University

    Professor of Sociology at Glasgow Caledonian University and a Co-opted Associate Director at the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships (CRFR). Lead grant holder for the ESRC Organisation Carescapes: Policies and Practices of Work-related Well-being and the ESF Work-life Balance: Proofing Policies and Practice. Completed a range of projects on the topics of combining caring and working and violence and violation. See www.lindamckie.org

  • Dr Andrew Smith
    Dr Andrew Smith
    Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management
    University of East London

    Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management at the University of East London and an Associate Researcher at the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships. He was previously employed as a Research Assistant at Glasgow Caledonian University on the ESRC-funded "Organisation Carescapes" project. Andrew's doctoral research critically examined the complexities of organisational culture change in the largest Public-Private Partnership in the Civil Service. He was awarded a PhD from Durham University and has recently had articles published in the journals "New Technology, Work and Employment" and "Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management".

Associated team members

  • Dr Laura Airey

    Previously Research Fellow and grant holder on the European Social Fund (ESF) project Work-life Balance: Proofing Policies & Practices and the ESF study on Gender-related Work-life Balance and Well-being in Scottish Food Retail Businesses.

  • Professor Kathryn Backett-Milburn

    Grant holder on Gender Related Work-life Balance and Well-being in Scottish Food Retail Businesses from December 2003 to December 2006.

  • Professor Rona Beattie

    Grant holder on the European Social Fund (ESF) project Work-life Balance: Proofing Policies and Practices project March 2006 to January 2008.

  • Fatima Malik

    Previously Research Fellow on the European Social Fund (ESF) project Work-life Balance: Proofing Policies and Practices project March 2006 to January 2008. Currently undertaking Ph.D. research at the Business School, University of Leeds.

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