Research

Academic Journal Publications

• Cassell, C.M., Watson, K. Ford, J. and Kele, J. (2021)  Understanding inclusion in the retail industry: incorporating the majority perspective. Published in Personnel Review
• Radcliffe, L. Cassell, C.M. and Malik, F. (2021) Providing, performing and protecting, single parent identities. (2021) Published in British journal of Management
• Schaub, J. and Greenchester, A. (2022) Gender and sexuality: ensuring social work meets LGBTQ+ people’s needs. Practice Guidance. Community Care Inform. [online] https://adults.ccinform.co.uk/practice-guidance/gender-and-sexuality-ensuring-social-work-meets-lgbtq-peoples-needs/
• Gibney, J. and Nicholds, A. (2021) Re-imagining Place Leadership as Social Purpose, In: Sotarauta, M. and Beer, A., eds. Handbook On City And Regional Leadership, Edward Elgar: Cheltenham
• Forbes, S., Birkett, H., Evans, L., Chung, H., & Whiteman, J. (2020). Managing employees during the Covid-19 lockdown: Changing preferences and the future of work
• Chung, H., Seo, H., Forbes, S., & Birkett, H. (2020). Working from home during the COVID-19 lockdown: Changing preferences and the future of work.
• McCarthy, L., Soundararajan, V. & Taylor, S. (2020) ‘The hegemony of men in global value chains: Why it matters for labour governance’. Human Relations
• Smolovic-Jones, O., Smolovic-Jones, S., Taylor, S. & Yarrow, E. (2020) ‘I wanted more women in, but…’: Oblique resistance to gender equality initiatives’. Work, Employment & Society.
• Smolovic-Jones, S., Smolovic-Jones, O., Taylor, S. & Yarrow, E. (2020) ‘Theorising gender desegregation as political work: The case of the Welsh Labour Party’. Gender, Work & Organization.
• Bell, E., Merilainen, S., Taylor, S. & Tienari, S. (2020) ‘Dangerous knowledge: The political, personal, and epistemological promise of feminist research in management and organization studies’, International Journal of Management Reviews, 22: 177-192.
• Atkinson, C., Beck, V., Brewis, J., Davies, A., & Duberley, J. (2020). Menopause and the workplace: new directions in HRM research and HR practice. Human Resource Management Journal. (forthcoming) published on line May 2020
• Atkinson., Carmichael, F and Duberley, J (2020) The menopause taboo at work: examining women’s embodied experiences of menopause in the UK police service. Work Employment and Society (forthcoming) published online December 2020
• Cohen, L and Duberley J (2020) Women in extraordinary times: The impact of external jolts on professional women’s careers, Journal of Professions and Organisations (forthcoming) published on line December 2020
• Gribling, M., & Duberley, J. (2020). Global competitive pressures and career ecosystems: contrasting the performance management systems in UK and French business schools. Personnel Review. (forthcoming) published online September 2020
• Shah, S.  Bradbury-Jones, C., Taylor, J. ( 2020). Using Facebook to tell stories of premature ageing and sexual and reproductive healthcare across the life course for women with cerebral palsy in the UK and US  BMJ Open.
• McCann, L., Granter, E., Aroles, A., Hyde, P. (2020) 'Upon the gears and upon the wheels': terror convergence and total administration in the neoliberal university. Management Learning. 51(4): 431–451.
• Aroles, J., Granter, E. and de Vaujany, FX. (2020) ‘Becoming mainstream’: the professionalisation and corporatisation of digital nomadism. New Technology, Work and Employment 35(1): 114-129.
• Granter, E (2020) Critical Theory and the Post Work Imaginary, in Aroles, J., de Vaujany, FX and Dale, K. (eds.), Experiencing the New World of Work. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Wierman, B, Granter, E and McCann, L (2020) Anarchy in Management Today, in M Parker, M., Stoborod, K. and Swann, T. (eds.), Anarchism, Organization and Management: Critical Perspectives for Students. London: Routledge.
• Gibney, J. and Nicholds, A. (2021) Re-imagining Place Leadership as Social Purpose, In: Sotarauta, M. and Beer, A., eds. Handbook On City And Regional Leadership, Edward Elgar: Cheltenham.
• Collinge C (2020), "Theorizing, Deleuzian-style"  in Cultural Geographies Vol. 27.4 pp.545-560
• Bell, E., Meriläinen, S., Taylor, S. & Tienari, J. (2019). ‘Time’s up! Feminist theory and activism meets organization studies’, Human Relations,72(1), pp.4–22. 
• Kenny, E. J. & Donnelly, R. (2019). ‘Navigating the gender structure in IT: How does this affect the experiences and behaviours of women in tech?’ Human Relations (OnlineFirst). 
• Vershinina, N., Rodgers, P., McAdam, M. & Clinton, E. (2019). ‘Transnational migrant entrepreneurship, gender and family business’. Global Networks Journal. 
• Jones, S., Martinez Dy, A. and Vershinina, N. (2018). ‘“We were fighting for our place”: Resisting gender knowledge regimes through feminist knowledge network formation’. Gender, Work and Organization. 
• Rodgers, P., Vershinina, N., Williams, C. C., & Theodorakopoulos, N. (2018). ‘Leveraging symbolic capital: the use of blat networks across transnational spaces’. Global Networks. 
• Tienari, J. & Taylor, S. (2018). ‘Feminism and men: Ambivalent space for acting up’, Organization. 
• Trehan, K., Higgins, D., & Jones, O. (2018). ‘Engaged scholarship: Questioning relevance and impact in contemporary entrepreneurship/small and medium-sized enterprise research’. International Small Business Journal, 36(4), 363-367. 
• Vershinina, N. A., Rodgers, P., Ram, M., Theodorakopoulos, N., & Rodionova, Y. (2018). ‘False self‐employment: the case of Ukrainian migrants in London's construction sector’. Industrial Relations Journal, 49(1), pp.2-18. 
• Vershinina, N., Woldesenbet Beta, K., & Murithi, W. (2018). ‘How does national culture enable or constrain entrepreneurship? Exploring the role of Harambee in Kenya’. Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 25(4), pp.687-704. 
• Birkett, H., Carmichael, F., & Duberley, J. (2017). ‘Activity in the third age: Examining the relationship between careers and retirement experiences’. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 103, pp.52-65. 
• Durepos, G., McKinlay, A. & Taylor, S. (2017). ‘Narrating histories of women at work: Archives, stories, and the promise of feminism’, Business History, 59(8), pp.1261-1279. 
• Ram, M., Edwards, P., Jones, T., & Villares-Varela, M. (2017). ‘From the informal economy to the meaning of informality: Developing theory on firms and their workers’. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 37(7/8), pp.361-373. 
• Ram, M., Jones, T., & Villares-Varela, M. (2017). ‘Migrant entrepreneurship: Reflections on research and practice’. International Small Business Journal, 35(1), pp.3-18. 
• Vershinina, N., Barrett, R., & McHardy, P. (2017). ‘Logics and rationalisations underpinning entrepreneurial decision-making’. Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 24(1), 158-175. 
• Wheatley, D. (2017). ‘Autonomy in paid work and employee subjective well-being’. Work and Occupations, 44(3), pp.296-328.  

Book Contributions

• Blackledge, A. & Trehan, K. (2018). ‘Language, Superdiversity and Self-Employment’ in Phillimore, J., Wei, L., Robinson, M., Blackledge, A., Rock, F., Baynham, M., Tagg, C. The Routledge Handbook of Language and Superdiversity, pp. 21-45: Routledge. 
• Land, C., Sutherland, N. & Taylor, S. (2018). ‘Back to the Brewster: Craft brewing, gender and the dialectical interplay of retraditionalisation and innovation’, in Bell, E., Toraldo, M.L., Taylor, S. & Mangia, G. (eds) The Organization of Craft Work: Identities, meanings & materialities. New York: Routledge.
• Lawton, C. & Wheatley, D. (2018). ‘The Quality of Work Among Older Workers’, in Caven, V. & Nachmias, S. (eds.) Hidden Inequalities in the Workplace (pp. 91-126): Springer. 
• Coogan, T., & Cluley, R. (2017). ‘Servicescapes, people, brands, and marketing management’, in Bolt, D. & Penketh, C. (eds). Disability, Avoidance and the Academy. London: Routledge. 
• Kenny, E. J. (2017). ‘Minority ethnic employees experiences in the workplace’ in Cornish T. & Calvard T. (eds). The Psychology of Ethnicity in Organizations. London: Palgrave.
• Nicholds, A., Gibney, J., Mabey, C., & Hart, D. (2017). ‘Making sense of variety in place leadership: The case of England’s smart cities’. Regional studies, 51(2), 249-259.
• Villares-Varela, M., Ram, M., & Jones, T. (2017). ‘Female Immigrant Global Entrepreneurship: From Invisibility to Empowerment?’ in Henry, C., Nelson, T., Lewis, K.V. (eds.) (2017) The Routledge Companion to Global Female Entrepreneurship. 
• Wintersberger, D. (2017). ‘International Human Resource Management: A Case Study Approach’: Kogan Page Publishers.

Practitioner Publications

• Birkett, H. & Forbes, S. (2018). ‘Dads are missing out: The multiple barriers that have prevented fathers from taking Shared Parental Leave’. Midlands Business Insider, November issue

Reports & Policy Briefs

• Birkett, H. and Forbes, S. (2018). ‘Shared Parental Leave: Why is take-up so low and what can be done?’

Blogs & Press Pieces

• Taylor, S. (2018). ‘Closing the gender pay gap: Should men take a pay cut?’, The Conversation, 5^th March

• Taylor, S. & Smolovic Jones, O. (2016). ‘Can quotas make gender equality happen in politics?’, The Conversation, 27^th September

• Taylor, S. (2016). ‘Calling all men – Five ways you can be a feminist at work’, The Conversation, 2^nd August

• Taylor, S. (2015). ‘University Challenge and lesson on quotas for British business’, The Conversation, 13^th January

• Taylor, S. (2015). ‘God’s work? The battle over religious belief in the office’, The Conversation, 2^nd April

Events

Internal

• Disability and Leadership: New Challenges – New Possibilities? Online workshop hosted in collaboration with the (UK) National Association of Disabled Staff Networks (NADSN) and PurpleSpace, Wednesday 2^nd June 2021.
• Half-Day Workshop (External speakers: Dr Louise Ashley, University of London; Professor Marylyn Carrigan, Keele University) Tuesday 4^th December 2018, 1.00pm – 5.00pm, Birmingham Business School.

• ‘Crafting Papers for Publication: Novelty and Convention in Academic Writing’ Workshop (External speaker: Professor Gerardo Patriotta, General Editor of Journal of Management Studies) 10^th December 2018, 12.00pm – 2.00pm, Birmingham Business School.

• Half-Day Workshop (External speaker: Professor Carol Atkinson, Manchester Metropolitan University) Thursday 13^th June 2019, 1.00pm – 5.00pm, Birmingham Business School.

External

• John Gibney (9^th November 2020) Place Leadership as Social Purpose, Place-based leadership panel, RSA Global Webinar series, Worldwide Online.
• The Centre for Women’s Entrepreneurship & Leadership (WE-LEAD) & The Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM) joint event: ‘Not The Normal Network: Leaders and Storytellers’ 18^th October 2018, 9.30am – 1.00pm, Birmingham Repertory Theatre.

• Hampton-Alexander Review Breakfast Roundtable Wednesday 21^st November 2018, 8.00am – 10.00am, KPMG Birmingham.

• Birmingham Literature Festival Jo Duberley introduced Helen Pankhurst’s talk about her book ‘Deeds not Words’ 9^th October 2018, Birmingham Repertory Theatre.

• ‘Shaping The Future of Women at Work’ Conference Wednesday 30^th January 2019 – London.

Successful bids

• Funder: What Works LGBTQ
  Project: LYPSA: Lgbtq+ Young People in Social cAre
  Award: £260,000
  Dates: March 2021 – March 2023
  Principal Investigator: Dr Jason Schaub
  With: Professor Paul Montgomery and Dr Willem Stander (Birmingham)

• Funder: National Institute of Health Research, School of Social Care Research
  Project: LOASCA: Lgbtq+ Older Adult Social Care Assessment study
  Award: £270,000
  Dates: October 2021 – September 2023
  Principal Investigator: Dr Jason Schaub
  With: Dr Stephen Hicks (Manchester), Dr Paul Willis (Bristol) Professor Ben Thomas (Opening Doors London) and Dr Liadh Timmins (Birmingham)

• Funder: Ministry of Defence
  Project: Defence Inclusivity: The Lived Experience
  Award: £299, 96.00
  Dates: 01/07/16 – 30/11/18
  Principal Investigator: Etlyn J Kenny (with Jo Duberley)

• Funder: British Academy Small Grants
  Project: Women, Computing and Identity: The Salience of Gender in the IT Profession
  Award: £9,990.00
  Dates:  01/11/15 – 31/10/17
  Principal Investigator: Etlyn J Kenny (with Rory Donnelly)

• Funder: UoB Education Enhancement Fund
  Project: The Education Experience of Widening Participation Students
  Award: £5,260
  Dates: 2014 – 2015
  Principal Investigators: Nick Rowbottom and Dan Herbert

• Funder: British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant
  Project: The experiences of Disabled Entrepreneurs on a scheme to promote disability entrepreneurship
  Award: £10,000
  Date: Awarded in 2015
  Principal Investigator: Thomas Coogan
  Grant number: SG152018

Current PhD students

• Emma Partlow: Equalities legislation on disabled people in the workplace
• Lowri Evans: Research Assistant for The Equal Parenting Project

Academic Journal Publications

• Dobbins, T., Hughes, E. and Dundon, T. (2021), ‘‘Zones of contention’ in industrial relations: framing pluralism as praxis’, Journal of Industrial Relations.
• Dobbins, T. and Wilkinson, A. (2021). Downsizing. In A. Wilkinson, T. Dundon, and T. Redman. Contemporary HRM: Texts and Cases. Sage.
• Hughes, E. and Dobbins, T. (2021), ‘Frontier of control struggles in British and Irish public transport’, European Journal of Industrial Relations.
• Hughes, E., Dobbins, T. and Merkl-Davies, D. (2021), ‘Moral economy, solidarity and labour process struggle in Irish public transport’, Economic and Industrial Democracy.
• Johnstone, S. and Dobbins, T. (2021). Employment Relations in the United Kingdom. In Bamber, G.J,. Lansbury, R. Waile, N. and Wright, C.F. (2020) International and Comparative Employment Relations: Globalisation, Regulation and Change (7th edition). Sage.
• Cullinane, N., Dundon, T., Donaghey, J., Hickland, E., Dobbins, T. (2020), ‘Employee voice and transnational regulation: Double-breasting at BritCo’. In T. Dundon and A. Wilkinson (eds), Case Studies in Work, Employment and Human Resource Management. Edward Elgar.
• Dobbins, T., Cullinane, N. and Sheehan, B. (2020), ‘Ireland’s conundrum on union bargaining rights: assessing the Industrial Relations Amendment Act 2015’, Industrial Relations Journal, 51(1-2): 75-91.
• Dobbins, T. and Dundon, T. (2020), ‘Employee Representation in Non-union Voice Regimes’. In A. Wilkinson, J. Donaghey, T. Dundon and R. Freeman (eds), Edward Elgar Handbook of Employee Voice, (2nd edition). Edward Elgar.
• Hickland, E., Cullinane, N., Dobbins, T., Dundon, T. and Donaghey, J. (2020), ‘Employer Silencing in a Context of Voice Regulations: Case Studies of Non-Compliance’, Human Resource Management Journal, 30(4): 537-552.
• Prowse, P., Dobbins, T., and Fells, R. (2020), ‘A case study of the Living Wage’. In T. Dundon and A. Wilkinson (eds), Case Studies in Work, Employment and Human Resource Management. Edward Elgar.
• Donnelly, R. (2018). ‘Using involvement to enhance employee engagement in IT firms: examining leadership initiatives in a key developing national context’. New Technology, Work and Employment, 33(2), 187-201. 
• Harvey, G., Turnbull, P., & Wintersberger, D. (2018). ‘Speaking of Contradiction’, Work, Employment and Society. 
• Hughes, E. S., Dobbins, T., & Murphy, S. (2018). ‘”Going Underground”: A Tube Worker’s Experience of Struggles over the Frontier of Control’. Work, Employment and Society. 
• Lee, N., Green, A., & Sissons, P. (2018). ‘Low-pay sectors, earnings mobility and economic policy in the UK’. Policy & Politics, 46(3), 347-369. 
• Niforou, C., & Hodder, A. (2018). ‘Trade union pedagogy and cross‐border action’. Global Networks. 
• Cullinane, N., Hickland, E., Dundon, T., Dobbins, T. & Donaghey, J. (2017). ‘Triggering Employee Voice under the European Information and Consultation Directive: A non-union case study’, Economic and Industrial Democracy, 38(4), pp.629-655. 
• Dobbins, T. & Dundon, T. (2017). ‘The Chimera of Sustainable Labour–Management Partnership’. British Journal of Management, 28(3), pp.519-533.
• Dobbins, T., Dundon, T., Cullinane, N., Hickland, E. & Donaghey, J. (2017). ‘Employment regulation, game theory, and the lacuna in employee participation in liberal economies’, International Labour Review, 156(3-4), pp.395-422. 
• Dobbins, T. & Plows, A. (2017). ‘Labour Market Intermediaries: A Corrective to the Human Capital Paradigm (Mis)matching Skills and Jobs?’, Journal of Education and Work, 30(6), pp.571-584. 
• Fraher, A. L. (2017). ‘Intergenerational conflict at US airlines: an unresolved Oedipal Complex?’ Journal of Managerial Psychology, 32(1), 75-88. 

Book Contributions

• Cullinane, N., Hickland, E., Dundon, T., Dobbins, T. & Donaghey, J. (2019). ‘Accessing the Law to Enforce Employment Rights: A Case Study of Worker Activism in a Non-Union Workplace’ in Sage Research Methods Cases Part 2. Sage Publishing. 
• Dobbins, T. & Dundon, T. (2019). ‘Employee Representation in Non-union Voice Regimes’ in Wilkinson, A., Donaghey, J., Dundon, T. & Freeman, R. (eds) Edward Elgar Handbook of Employee Voice (2^nd edition): Edward Elgar.
• Wilkinson, A., Dobbins, T. & Redman, T. (2017). ‘Downsizing’ in Wilkinson, A., Redman, T. & Dundon, T. Contemporary HRM: Texts and Cases (5th edition): Pearson.
• Dobbins, T. & Dundon, T. (2016). ‘Ireland Case Study: Workplace Cooperation at Aughinish Alumina’ in Johnstone, S. & Wilkinson, A. (eds) Developing Positive Employment Relations. Palgrave Macmillan.
• Dobbins, T. & Dundon, T. (2016). ‘Workplace partnership in Ireland: irreconcilable tensions between an ‘Irish third way’ of voluntary mutuality and neo-liberalism’ in Johnstone, S. & Wilkinson, A. (eds) Developing Positive Employment Relations. Palgrave Macmillan.

Book Reviews

• Dobbins, T. (2018). Review of Doellgast, V., Lillie, N. & Pulignano, V. (eds) ‘Reconstructing Solidarity: Labour Unions, Precarious Work, and the Politics of Institutional Change in Europe’. Oxford University Press Publications, 2018, 250 pp. ISBN: 9780198791843. Industrial Relations Journal, 49(3), 295-296. 

Blogs & Press Pieces

• Dobbins, T. (2020) Al Jazerra: Friday May 29th 2020. Live TV interview about workers' rights, working conditions, Job Retention Scheme, job losses, alternatives to redundancies. 
• Dobbins, T. (2020) The Conversation: Jobs crisis: the case for a new social contract. July 21st, 2020. 
• Coronavirus: how UK job retention plan borrows from collectivist Europe. March 24th, 2020. 
• Dobbins, T. (2020) Tribune: After Coronavirus We Need a New Social Contract. May 2nd, 2020. 
• Dobbins, T. (2020) Futures of Work: COVID-19 and the Past, Present and Future of Work. Issue 13, May 5th 2020. 
• Briefing on bogus self-employment for BBC Radio 5 Live, October 2016.
• Burkhardt, H., Dobbins, T. & Field, F. (2018). 'Why a jobs guarantee would benefit us all', Guardian Letters, 7^th May: 
• Dobbins, T. (2018). 'Local US campaigns boosted living wage', Guardian Letters, 15^th April
• Dobbins, T. (2018). 'Why We Badly Need ‘Trickle-Up Economics’ To Boost Workers' Pay', Huffington Post, 24^th May: 
• Dobbins, T. (2018). 'Strikes are low, but discontent is expressed in other ways', Guardian Letters, 1^st June
• Dobbins, T. (2018). 'Why A Job Guarantee Should Be A Basic Human Right', Huffington Post, 2^nd July
• Dobbins, T. & Prowse, P. (2017). ‘How football’s richest clubs fail to pay staff a real living wage’, The Conversation, 30^th March
• Dobbins, T. (2017). 'Fact Check: Do six million people earn less than the living wage?’, iNews, 2^nd May
• Dobbins, T. (2017). ‘Tory attack on Working Time Directive signals a post-Brexit race to the bottom’, The Conversation, 20^th December
• Briefing on bogus self-employment for BBC Radio 5 Live, October 2016.
• Davis, H., Dobbins, T., Plows, A. (2016). ‘Jobs figures mask problems like bogus self-employment in the shadow economy’, The Conversation, 20^th  April
• Dobbins, T. (2016). 'Bad bosses make for insecure workers', Guardian Letters, 16^th June
• Dobbins, T. (2016). 'Fine words from the new Tory PM – but can, and will, she deliver?', Guardian Letters, 14^th July
• Dobbins, T. (2016). 'Newly minted British PM Theresa May takes aim at corporate governance, proposes reform', The Canadian Globe and Mail, (contribution to article on employee directors on boards) 21^st July

Successful bids

• Funder: British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Small Grant (2019-2022)
  Project: The ethics of living wages for low-paid staff in UK professional football clubs
  Award: £9,981
  Dates: Awarded March 2019
  Principal Investigator: Tony Dobbins
  
  
• Funder: Research England (UKRI) Strategic Priorities QR Grant
  Project: Decent work in time of Covid: policy implications and challenges for the Midlands
  Award: £13,723.58
  Dates: Awarded November 2020
  Principal Investigator: Tony Dobbins
  
  
• Funder: British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Small Grant (2014-2016):
  Project: Anticipatory Responses to Mass Redundancy in the Welsh Nuclear Power Industry
  Award: £9,769
  Dates: 2013 – 2016
  Principal Investigator: Tony Dobbins
  Grant number: SG130159

• Funder: ESRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA)
  Project: Welsh Labour Market Summit II
  Award: £13,875
  Date: Awarded in December 2015
  Principal Investigator: Tony Dobbins & Alex Plows (Social Sciences, Bangor University)

Academic Journal Publications

• Hughes, C. and Saunders M.N.K. (2021, forthcoming) Building and maintaining trust in virtual teams. In D. Wheatley, I. Hardill and S. Buglass (eds) Handbook of Research on Remote Work and Well-Being in the Post-COVID-19 Era. Hershey, PA: IGI Global
• Garavan, T.N., McCarthy, A., Lai, Y., Clarke, N., Carberry, R., Gubbins, C., Sheehan, M. and Saunders, M.N.K  (2021, forthcoming) ‘Putting the System back into Training and Firm Performance Research: A Review a nd Research Agenda’ Human Resource Management Journal. 
• Saunders MNK (2021) Recognising the realities of academic writing and learning thematic qualitative data analysis In T Harrison, C Greenway, M McLinden and S Chung (eds) Bringing our Research Into Teaching: A Guide for Academics in the College of Social Sciences. Birmingham: University of Birmingham HEFI 7
• Darabi, F, Saunders MNK and Clark, M (2020, online first) ‘Trust initiation and development in SME-University collaborations: implications for enabling engaged scholarship’ European Journal of Training and Development.
• Isaeva N, Gruenewald K, Saunders MNK (2020, online first) ‘Trust theory and customers service research: theoretical review and synthesis’ The Services Industries Journal.
• Wintersberger, D., Saunders, M. (2020). Formulating and clarifying the research topic: insights and a guide for the production management research community. Production, 30, e20200059.
• Holmes M, Saunders MNK and Wheeler N (2020) UN general assembly: why virtual meetings make it hard for diplomats to trust each other. The Conversation (22 September). 
• Darabi, F, Saunders MNK and Clark, M (2020, online first) ‘Trust initiation and development in SME-University collaborations: implications for enabling engaged scholarship’ European Journal of Training and Development.
• Isaeva N, Gruenewald K, Saunders MNK (2020, online first) ‘Trust theory and customers service research: theoretical review and synthesis’ The Services Industries Journal.
• Wintersberger, D., Saunders, M. (2020). Formulating and clarifying the research topic: insights and a guide for the production management research community. Production, 30, e20200059.
• Townsend, K, Saunders MNK, Loudon, R and Morrison E (2020) (editors) How to keep you doctorate on track: Insights from students’ and supervisors’ experiences Cheltenham: Edward Elgar
• Loudoun, R, Morrison, EA,  Saunders MNK and Townsend K (2020) ‘What we wish we had known: lessons learned to keep your doctorate on track’ in K Townsend, MNK Saunders, R Loudoun and E Morrison (eds) How to keep you doctorate on track: Insights from students’ and supervisors’ experiences Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 1-9
• Lee W and Saunders MNK (2019) Case Study Research in Business and Management in P A Atkinson, S Delamont and M Williams (eds) SAGE Research Methods Foundations [online]. Accessed 28 October 2019]  
• Isaeva, N, Hughes, C and Saunders MNK (2019) ‘Trust, Distrust and Human Resource Management’ in K Townsend, K Cafferekey, Dundon, T and McDermott, A (eds.) Elgar Introduction to Theories of Human Resources and Employment Relations. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 247-263.
• Garavan, T, MacCarthy, A, Sheehan, M, Lai, Y, Clarke, N, Saunders, MNK, Carbery, R and Shanahan, V. (2019) ‘Measuring the organisational impact of training: The need for greater methodological rigor’ Human Resource Development Quarterly 30. 291-309.
• Nyfoudi, M., Theodorakopoulos, N., Psychogios, A., & Dysvik, A. (2020). Tell it like it is in SME teams: Adverse working conditions, citizenship behaviour and the role of team information sharing in a turbulent economy. Economic and Industrial Democracy
• Biron, M., De Cieri, H., Fulmer, I., Lin, C. H. V., Mayrhofer, W., Nyfoudi, M., Sanders, K., Shipton, H., & Sun, J. M. J. (2020). Structuring for innovative responses to human resource challenges: A skunk works approach. Human Resource Management Review
• Rojon, C., McDowall, A. & Saunders, M. N. K. (2019). ‘A novel use of Honey’s aggregation approach to the analysis of repertory grids’, Field Methods, 31(2), pp.150–166. 
• Terzidou, M., Scarles, C. & Saunders, M. N. K. (2018). ‘The Complexities of Religious Tourism Motivations: Sacred Places, Vows and Visions’, Annals of Tourism Research70, pp.54-65. doi:10.1016/j.annals.2018.02.011
• Fraher, A. L., Branicki, L. J., & Grint, K. (2017). ‘Mindfulness in action: Discovering how US navy seals build capacity for mindfulness in high-reliability organizations (HROs)’Academy of Management Discoveries, 3(3), 239-261. 
• Doherty, C., Stavropoulou, C., Saunders, M. N. K. & Brown, T. (2017). ‘The consent process: enabling or disabling patients’ active participation?’ Health, 21(2), pp.205-222. 
• Saunders, M. N. K., Gray, D. E. & Bristow, A. (2017). ‘Beyond the single organization: Inside insights from gaining access for large multiorganization survey HRD research’, Human Resource Development Quarterly, 28(3), pp.401-425. 
• Saunders, M. N. K. & Townsend, K. (2016). ‘Reporting and justifying the number of interviews participants in organisation and workplace research’, British Journal of Management, 27(4), pp.836-852. 
• Stavropoulou, C., Doherty, C. & Saunders, M. N. K. (2016). ‘Consent to treatment in the UK: time for practice to reflect the law’, Journal of Health Service Research and Policy, 21(3), pp.143-4. 

Book Contributions

• Lee, B., Saunders, M. N. K. and Narayanan, V. (on-going) Series editors of Understanding Research Methods for Business and Management Students. London: Sage.
• Lee, W. & Saunders, M. N. K. (2020, forthcoming) ‘Case Study Research in Business and Management’ in Atkinson, P. A., Delamont, S. & Williams, M. (eds) The Sage Encyclopedia of Research Methods. London: Sage.
• Saunders, M. N. K., Lewis, P. & Thornhill, A. (2019). Research Methods for Business Students (8^th edition) Harlow: Pearson Education.
• Fraher, A. L. (2018). ‘The dark side of advanced technologies’ in Sauerbronn, F., Fatien Diochon, P., Mills, A., Raufflet, E. (2018) The Dark Side 3: Critical Cases on the Downside of Business (Vol. 160, pp. 160-172) 
• Saunders, M.N.K. & Lewis, P. (2018). Doing Research in Business and Management (2^nd edition) Harlow: Pearson.
• Saunders, M. N. K. & Townsend, K. (2018). ‘Choosing participants’ in Cassell, C, Cunliffe, A, & Grandy, G. (eds.) The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Business and Management Research Methods. London: Sage, pp.480-494
• Terzidou, M., Scarles, C. & Saunders, M. N. K. (2018). ‘The Vow and Tourist Travel’ in Butler, R. W. & Suntikul, W. (eds.) Tourism and Religion: Issues and Implications. Bristol: Channelview Publications, pp.117-127
• Townsend, K. & Saunders, M. N. K. (eds) (2018). How To Keep Your Research Project on Track: Insights From When Things Go Wrong. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
• Lee, B. & Saunders, M. N. K. (2017). Conducting Case Studies for Business and Management. London: Sage.

Selected Conference Papers

• Morrison, E & Saunders M. N. K. (2019). ‘The dynamic nature of patient-doctor reciprocal trust relationships: Towards an initial theorization and exploration’. First International Network on Trust Conference, St Gallen, January.
• Isaeva N, Saunders M. N. K. & Mishra A (2019). ‘Reconceptualising the factors influencing trust in intra-organizational relationships’. First International Network on Trust Conference, St Gallen, January
• Gray, D. E., Saunders, M. N. K. & Curnow B (2018). ‘Identity formation in under-institutionalized career landscapes: aggregation or liminal disjuncture?’ Academy of Human Resource Development Annual Conference, Richmond, February.
• Hughes, C. & Saunders, M. N. K. (2016). ‘Towards a framework for trust development between leaders and members of virtual teams’ First International Network on Trust Conference, Dublin, November.

Current PhD students

• Colin Hughes: Trust in Virtual Teams
• Mukul Tiwari: Workplace bullying and organisational citizenship behaviour – the role of trust and silence
• Abdulrahman Alzannan: HRM practices and employee voice – the roles of trust and organizational justice

Recent PhD completions

• Neve Isaeva: Trust and distrust in cross-cultural teams

Academic Journal Publications

• Carmichael, F, Darko, C & Kanji, S (2021). 'Wage effects of educational mismatch and job search in Ghana and Kenya', Education Economics. https://doi.org/10.1080/09645292.2021.1900790
• Carmichael, F, Darko, C & Vasilakos, N (2021).  'Well-being and employment of young people in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam Is work enough?', Development Policy Review. https://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12565
• Darko, C & Vasilakos, N (2020). “Picking winners: an empirical analysis of the determinants of educational outcomes in India”, British Educational Research Journal. 
• Darko, C & Abrokwa, K (2020). “Do you really need it? Educational mismatch and earnings in Ghana”, Review of Development Economics. 2020;00:1–28. 
• Atkinson, C., Carmichael, F. & Duberley, J., (2020) The menopause taboo at work: examining women’s embodied experiences of menopause in the UK police service, Work, Employment & Society, 
• Carmichael, F. Clarke, H. (2020) Why work? Disability, family care and employment, Disability & Society, DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2020.1848802
• Carmichael, F., Darko, C. K., Ercolani, M. G., Ozgen, C., & Siebert, W. S. (2020). Evidence on intergenerational income transmission using complete Dutch population data. Economics Letters, 189, 108996.
• Darko, C & Carmichael, F. (2020).Education of biological and fostered children in Ghana: the influence of relationships with the household head and household structure, Journal of International Development. 
• Carmichael, F, Duberley, J & AlIsmail, S. (2019). Female employment in hotels in Saudi Arabia and UAE, Gender in Management, vol. 34, no. 7, pp. 554-576. 
• Clarke, H, Carmichael, F & Al-Janabi, H. (2019). Adverse effects of social security on disabled people in the UK: Iatrogenic outcomes of quasi-clinical administration, Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 218-227. 
• Carmichael, F., Darko C. & Vasilakos N. (2019). Health and wellbeing of young people in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam: Life course impacts. Journal of Development Studies, 
• Darko C.K., & Abrokwa, K. (2019). “Econometric analysis of educational mismatch and earnings using survey data from Ghana”, Chapter in Wheatley, D. (ed.) “Handbook of Research Methods on The Quality of Working Lives”. Edward Elgar Publishing. 
• Carmichael, F., Duberley, J. and Porcellato, L. (2019) Using occupational history calendars in semi-structured interviews to capture long working lives: a small sample approach using sequence analysis, Chapter 21 in Wheatley, D. (ed.). Handbook of Research Methods on The Quality of Working Lives, Handbooks of Research Methods, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 
• Heywood, J. S., O’Mahony, M., Siebert, W. S., & Rincon-Aznar, A. (2018). The Impact of Employment Protection on the Industrial Wage Structure. IZA Discussion Paper No. 11788.
• Siebert, S., Wong, H. L., Wei, X., & Zhou, X. (2018). Student Feedback, Parent-Teacher Communication, and Academic Performance: Experimental Evidence from Rural China. IZA Discussion Paper No. 11347.
• Davies P. & Ercolani M. (2018). Hard and soft choices? Subject selection by schools and students, Oxford Review of Education, online 3/8/2018, 
• Johnson D., Ercolani M. & Mackie P. (2017). Econometric analysis of the link between public transport accessibility and employment. Transport Policy, Volume 60, online 15 August 2017, pp.1-9 
• Al‐Ismail, S., Carmichael, F. & Duberley, J. (2019). ‘Female employment in Saudi Arabian and UAE hotels’. Gender in Management: An International Journal, earlycite. 
• Carmichael, F., Darko, C.K. & Vasilakos, N. (2019). ‘Health and Well-being of Young People in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam: Life Course Impacts’. The Journal of Development Studies. 
• Clarke, H., Carmichael, F. & Al-Janabi, H. (2019). ‘Adverse Effects of Social Security on Disabled People and Their Families in the UK: Iatrogenic Outcomes of Quasi-Clinical Administration’. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research 21(1), 218–227. 
• Van Houtven, C., Carmichael, F., Jacobs, J., & Coyte, P. (2019). ‘The economics of informal care’. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance. Oxford University Press. 
• Al‐Janabi, H., Carmichael, F. & Oyebode, J. (2018). ‘Informal care: choice or constraint?’ Scandinavian journal of caring sciences, 32(1), 157-167. 
• Fernando, D. & Kenny, E. J. (2018). ‘Navigating panethnic categorization in the workplace: A study of British Sri Lankan employees’. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology91: 769-797. 
• Jones, T., Ram, M. & Villares-Varela, M. (2018). ‘Diversity, economic development and new migrant entrepreneurs’. Urban Studies. 
• Kanji, S. (2018). ‘Grandparent care: A key factor in mothers’ labour force participation in the UK’. Journal of Social Policy, 47(3), 523-542. 
• Pollard, J., Richter, P., Down, S. & Ram, M. (2018). ‘Financialisation and small firms: A qualitative analysis of bioscience and film and media firms’. International Small Business Journal, 36(3), 247-264. 
• Villares-Varela, M., Ram, M. & Jones, T. (2018). ‘Bricolage as Survival, Growth and Transformation: The Role of Patch-working in the Social Agency of Migrant Entrepreneurs’. Work, Employment and Society, 32(5), pp. 942–962. 
• Barrett, R., & Vershinina, N. (2017). ‘Intersectionality of ethnic and entrepreneurial identities: a study of post‐war Polish entrepreneurs in an English city’. Journal of Small Business Management, 55(3), 430-443. 
• Kanji, S. & Samuel, R. (2017). ‘Male breadwinning revisited: How specialisation, gender role attitudes and work characteristics affect overwork and underwork in Europe’. Sociology, 51(2), 339-356. 
• Lewis, P. C. & Heyes, J. (2017). ‘The Changing Face of Youth Employment in Europe’, Economic and Industrial Democracy. 
• Psychogios, A., Nyfoudi, M., Theodorakopoulos, N., Szamosi, L. T., & Prouska, R. (2017). ‘Many Hands Lighter Work? Deciphering the Relationship between Adverse Working Conditions and Organization Citizenship Behaviours in Small and Medium‐sized Enterprises during a Severe Economic Crisis’. British Journal of Management. 
• Rowbottom, N. (2017). ‘Widening participation and contextual entry policy in accounting and finance’. Accounting Education, 26(3), 242-264. 
• Carmichael, F. and Ercolani, M. (2016). ‘Unpaid caring and paid employment: different life-histories and divergent outcomes’, Social Science and Medicine, 156, 1-11. 
• Moore, J., Higham, L., Mountford-Zimdars, A., Ashley, L., Birkett, H., Duberley, J. & Kenny, E. J. (2016). ‘Socio-economic diversity in life sciences and investment banking’. Social Mobility Commission, London.
• Carmichael, F. and Ercolani, M. (2015). ‘Age-training gaps across the European Union: How and why they vary across member states’, Journal of the Economics of Ageing6, 163-175. 
• Wheatley, D. (2023) Realising the well-being benefits of flexible working. Policy Brief
• Wheatley, D. (2021). Workplace location and the quality of work: The case of urban-based workers in the UK. Urban Studies. CABS 3
• Wheatley, D. (2017). Time Well Spent: Subjective Well-being and the Organization of Time. London: Rowman and Littlefield International. ISBN: 9781783484256. 
• Wheatley, D. and Gifford, J. (2019). UK Working Lives Survey Report 2019. London: Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)

Book Contributions

• Darko, C.K. & Abrokwa, K. (2019). ‘Econometric analysis of educational mismatch and earnings using survey data from Ghana’ in Wheatley, D. (ed) Handbook of Research Methods on The Quality of Working Lives, 235-252: Edward Elgar. 
• Wheatley, D., Lawton, C. & Hardill, I. (2018). ‘Gender Differences in Paid and Unpaid Work’ in Caven, V. & Nachmias, S. (eds.) Hidden Inequalities in the Workplace, 181-214: Springer. 
• Kenny, E. J. & Briner, R. B. (2014). ‘Stereotype threat and minority ethnic employees: What should our research priorities be?’, Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 7(3) 425-429. 
• Wheatley, D. (2020). Changing places of work. In Holland, P. and Brewster, (eds.) Contemporary Work and the Future of Employment in Developed Societies. London: Routledge.
• Wheatley, D. (ed.) (2019). Handbook of Research Methods on the Quality of Working Lives. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. 

Events

Internal

• One-Day Workshop: ‘From school to work: Education and employment of young people in Africa’ (External speaker: Professor Richard Akresh, University of Illinois) Organised in partnership with the Birmingham-Illinois Partnership for Discovery, Engagement and Education (BRIDGE) and the The Institute for Global Innovation) 
  Tuesday 4^th December 2018, 1.00pm – 5.00pm, Birmingham Business School. 
• Gaming on holidays, December 2023. Gamers from around the country were surveyed to find out more about their gaming habits and their working relationships.
• ESRC Festival of Social Science (FoSS) Remote work and worker wellbeing in the post-covid era, November 2020.
• Presented as part of a panel titled, ‘Academic Perspectives on Well-being’ as part of the EUniWell launch event, November 2020.
• Briefing on ‘Well-being as an Indicator of National Progress’ provided for the University of Birmingham Chancellor Lord Bilimoria referenced in a debate in the House of Lords, March 2020.
• Research formed part of the ‘Working for a Responsible Future’ exhibition at the CBI in April 2020.

Successful bids

• Funder: British Academy
  Project: Autonomy, Interdependence, and Social Security: An Integrated Study of Disability Benefit Entitlement and Family Life
  Award: £9,285
  Dates: 2015 – 2017
  Principal Investigator: Fiona Carmichael
  Grant number: SG141308

• Funder: British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant
  Project: Transition from school to work: unravelling the mechanisms for employment in Ghana
  Award: £9,973.30
  Dates: 2018 – 2020
  Principal Investigator: Fiona Carmichael & Christian Darko
  Grant number: SRG18R1\180958

• Funder: Institute for Global Innovation & Birmingham Business School
  Project: Commuting in Sub-Saharan Africa: A gendered analysis of the impact on employment and well-being
  Award: £17,799.06
  Dates: 2018 – 2020
  Principal Investigator: Fiona Carmichael, Chris Darko, Jo Duberley, Marco Ercolani & Dan Wheatley

• Edgell, S. and Granter, E. (2020) The Sociology of Work (3rd Ed.) London: SAGE.
• Fernando, D. & Kenny, E. (in press) Negotiating a Sense of Fit in Elite Higher Education: Exploring the Identity Work of Widening Participation Students. Academy of Management Learning & Education 

Blogs and Press Pieces

• The Financial Times “Teaching Power” measure of university influence ranks Professor Mark Saunders’ book “Research Methods for Business Students” the most influential ‘title’ in the business school world in June 2021.

Events

Internal

• Decolonising the Business School Curriculum WIRC and PRME joint online half-day workshop, Wednesday 19^thMay 2021.