My Blog

Nursing, Emotional Labour and Toxic Absence
One of the most frustrating parts of a research project is securing the first publication. You can spend months collecting data, weeks analysing it and just as long (or more!) writing up a journal article

Pandemic & the Dignity of Furloughed Workers
The pandemic was a challenging time to work through. For “key workers” it involved continuing as normal, albeit with an intensification of workload and complex rules and regulations creating confusion, frustration and added stress. For

Democratising the conference: Facilitating Inclusion in Management Education
One of the scariest things I can recall about being a young academic was attending conferences. Not only were you being asked to present your work to more experienced colleagues (scared witless about receiving terrible

Moral Injury and Critical Care Nursing
Earlier this month I was invited to give a presentation to the Wolfson Institute for Health and Wellbeing at Durham University. The subject of the talk was research on moral injury of critical care nurses

Paradoxes in Democratic Organizing
One major theme in my research is that whilst many individuals aspire to more democratic ways of working, achieving it in practice is an extremely difficult business. It is fraught with tensions that individuals and

Black History Month Event 2020
One of the most rewarding parts of being an academic is getting the opportunity to regularly meet extremely interesting and intelligent people. I can’t think of another job where you would get to meet such