Faculty Research Interests

The primary research interests of our faculty members are given below. Please visit the CLS Research Themes page for a more general summary of the Centre's research interests.

Dr Inmaculada Adarves-Yorno
Lecturer in Leadership Studies

• Tolerance to deviance in leadership
• Gender and leadership
• Leadership and spirituality
• Performance and innovation
• Innovation and identity
• Organisational culture, performance and identification
• Creative behaviour
• The impact of time and material affluence on well-being
• A social identity analysis of health related behaviour

Prof Mats Alvesson
Visiting Professor

• Management and organization of Knowledge work and knowledge-intensive firms
• Organizational culture and identity Leadership
• Identity constructions in organizations
• Power in organizations
• Reflexive and qualitative methodology
• Critical management studies
• Gender and organization
• Organizational change processes
• Discourse analysis

Jackie Bagnall
Senior Teaching Fellow - Leadership

• Leadership - Developing the capacity for growth
• Female entrepreneurship
• Appreciative Inquiry and its role in transformative learning
• Action learning as a tool of critical enquiry
• Social Psychology
• Systems thinking and Learning Organisations

Dr Richard Bolden
Senior Lecturer, Head of Department

• Distributed and shared leadership
• Cross-cultural leadership
• Leadership development
• Leadership in partnerships
• Leadership, identity and sensemaking
• Leadership in Higher Education

Professor Jonathan Gosling
Professor of Leadership Studies

• Leadership and Ethics in Current Strategic Changes
• Contemporary Innovations in Leadership Development
• Fostering Continuity in Change Through Leadership

Dr Beverley Hawkins
Lecturer in Leadership Studies

• Leadership and teamwork
• Inclusive, shared and distributed perspectives on leadership
• Sense-making and organizing processes at work
• Organizational culture
• Gender and identity work
• Control and resistance practices at work

Dr Anne O'Brien
Lecturer in Leadership Studies

• Organisational change
• Aligning organisational, team, and personal goals
• Building engaged and aligned identities
• Employee engagement
• Leadership development
• Workplace stress
• Identity
• Mergers

Professor Annie Pye
Director of Research

• Leadership and governance in and of organizations
• Strategy/izing, organizing and change
• Sensemaking
• Network learning and leadership
• Learning and development

Dr Scott Taylor
Senior lecturer in leadership studies, programme director MA in Leadership Studies

• Spirituality and religion in the workplace
• Workplace training
• Smaller organizations
• Organizational escape