I am the Associate Dean of Education for Kent Business School, providing strategic leadership for all of the undergraduate and taught postgraduate courses within the school. I’m also a Senior Lecturer in HRM/Organizational Behaviour; my work is located within the discipline of Organization Studies.

I began my PhD at the University of Manchester in 2012 with Dr. Damian O’Doherty and Professor Penny Harvey and completed in 2016. My doctoral work addressed itself to the writings of Gilles Deleuze in an attempt to develop an understanding of the challenges that they pose to organizational studies through the context of an ethnography of everyday life at a shopping centre. I was (and still am) concerned with methodological questions regarding how we might meaningfully engage with Deleuze’s writings in the course of doing research in contemporary organizations. In the course of that work, I explored key themes or concepts which were salient in both Deleuze’s work and the shopping centre, interalia time, memory, the body, the subject, and writing. I continue to have a great interest in concepts as they unfold and develop through ethnographic work.

My current projects and papers continue to develop these interests through papers on Accelerationism and the future of critical management pedagogy, reflections on the concept of “Hope” in the work of Emil Cioran, a collaborative paper on the concept of the “breakdown” of organization, and a book length project on the dangers of the stories that we tell ourselves in the anthropocene.

I am also a dedicated pedagogue and over the last few years have taught many classes on and in the tradition of Critical Management Studies. I enjoy prompting students to reflect upon the moral, social and environmental sustainability of the paradigms of management and leadership in which they are involved and otherwise implicated (see here for a longer explanation).