About the team - Organisations, Work & Care
About the team
Organisation, Work and Care Team Members
Current team
Dr Laura Airey
Research Fellow
Glasgow Caledonian UniversityResearch Fellow and grant holder on the European Social Fund (ESF) project Work-life Balance: Proofing Policies and Practices. Previously a grant holder on the ESF study on Gender Related Work-life Balance and Well-being in Scottish Food Retail Businesses. Research work and interests include women's experiences of health and well-being over the lifecourse.
(on maternity leave to spring 2008)
Professor Rona Beattie
Head of People Management, Learning and Change
Glasgow Caledonian UniversityGrant holder on the ESF project Work-life Balance: Proofing Policies and Practices project. Research interests and publications are in the areas of HRD and voluntary sector management.
Maria Breslin
Research Administration Assistant
Glasgow Caledonian UniversityResearch 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.
Dr Sophie Bowlby
Senior Lecturer
University of ReadingMember 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. Applicant on all three European Work-related Well-being bids.
Professor Jeff Hearn
Professor of Management and Organization
Hanken, Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, HelsinkiProfessor of Management and Organisations at Hanken, the Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, 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.
Dr Minna Hiillos
Post-doctoral Researcher
Hanken, Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, HelsinkiApplicant on all three European Work-related Well-being bids in addition to research work with the Hanken Gender Research Group.
Professor Gillian Hogg
Head of School of Management and Languages
Heriot-Watt UniversityHead 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. Applicant on all three European Work-related Well-being bids.
Dr Marjut Jyrkinen
Post-doctoral Researcher
Hanken, Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, HelsinkiCurrent 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
Research Professor
Glasgow Caledonian UniversityResearch Professor in Sociology at Glasgow Caledonian University and an 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. Applicant on all three European Work-related Well-being bids. Completed a range of projects on the topics of combining caring and working and violence and violation. See www.lindamckie.org
Fatima Malik
Research Fellow
Glasgow Caledonian UniversityResearch Fellow on the Work-life Balance: Proofing Policies and Practices project. Part-time lecturer and researcher at the Caledonian Business School and undertaking PhD research on the impact of work-life balance and gender on aspects of professional management development within the NHS.
Dr Andrew Smith
Research Assistant
Glasgow Caledonian UniversityResearch Assistant on the ESRC Organisation Carescapes: Policies and Practices of Work-related Well-being which critically examines the concept of 'care' in employing organisations. Awarded a PhD from the Department of Sociology, Durham University in January 2007. Doctoral research investigated the complexities of organisational culture change in the largest Public-Private Partnership in the Civil Service.
Previous team members
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
Gail Cook
Research Assistant on the ESF funded Gender Related Work- Life Balance and Well-being in Scottish Food Retail Businesses from May 2006 to October 2006.
Dr Arbory McNulty
Administration Officer for Gender Related Work- Life Balance and Well-being in Scottish Food Retail Businesses and Work-life Balance: Proofing Policies and Practices from October 2003 to October 2006.
Dr Frances Morton
Research Assistant on Organisation Carescapes: Policies and Practices of Work-related Well-being in Business Organisations from October 2005 to April 2006.
Laura Rankine
Research Assistant on Gender Related Work-life Balance and Well-being in Scottish Food Retail Businesses and Work-life Balance: Proofing Policies and Practices from June 2004 to August 2006.