Dr Edward Granter

Dr Edward Granter

Department of Management
Associate Professor in Organisational Behaviour

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)121 415 8058
Email
e.j.granter.1@bham.ac.uk
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Address
Birmingham Business School
University House
Edgbaston Park Road
Birmingham
B15 2TY

Edward Granter is Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Organizational Behaviour in the Department of Management at Birmingham Business School. He teaches and writes about work, organization and society. 

From July 2020 to July 2023 Dr Granter was Programme Director, Undergraduate Business Management degrees.

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Qualifications

  • PhD Sociology, University of Salford (2008)
  • MA Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge (2004)
  • MA in Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham (2003)
  • BA Hons Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge (2000)

Biography

After a first degree in social and political sciences (SPS), Dr Granter’s academic career has focused on the sociology of work. Since 2009 he has worked in UK business schools where his teaching and research interests have come under the disciplinary headings of ‘organization studies’ and ‘organizational behaviour’.

Teaching

  • The Future of Work (MSc HRM)

  • Managing Work and Organization (MSc HRM)

  • Organizational Management (MSc Advanced Engineering Management Programme)

Research

Dr Granter’s research interests are fairly wide in that they range from empirical study of life at work, to theoretical analysis of organization and politics as a ‘racket’. He has provided a number of perspectives on the work of the Frankfurt School Critical Theorists; Adorno, Horkheimer and Marcuse and this is a long-term research theme. Dr Granter wrote a book on the end of work in 2009, and continues to follow and write about changes in the world of work and employment.

Current projects

  • Academic freedom at Universities
  • Andre Gorz
  • Encyclopedia of Critical Management Studies
  • Local Community Currencies

Other activities

Edward is an External Examiner for undergraduate modules in management, Cardiff University 

From 2018 to 2022 he was an External Examiner for management modules at Keele University 

Associate Editor for the following journals: 

Competition and Change (since 2018)

Work, Employment and Society (since 2018)

Publications

Recent publications

Book

McCann, L, Granter, E, Bozkurt, O, Finn, R, Hunter, C, Kivinen, N, Kumar, A & Wierman, B (eds) 2025, Encyclopedia of Critical Management Studies. Elgar Encyclopedias in Business and Management, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800377721

Article

Peiro, M, Aroles, J & Granter, E 2025, 'Building a local currency: Elaborating, maintaining and redirecting values through tensions.', Journal of Cultural Economy. https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2025.2573497

Peiro, M, Aroles, J & Granter, E 2025, 'Mapping heterotopia: Enjoyment as practice in two alternative spaces', Organization Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840625140048

Aroles, J, Leclercq-Vandelannoitte, A, Hassard, J, Foster, WM & Granter, E 2025, 'Won’t Get Fooled Again? Theorising Discursive Constructions of Novelty in the ‘New’ World of Work', Work, Employment & Society, vol. 39, no. 4, pp. 882-903. https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170241300948

Aroles, J, Morrell, K, Granter, E & Liang, Y 2024, 'Representing, Re-Presenting, or Producing the Past? Memory Work Amongst Museum Employees', Journal of Management Studies. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.13059

Granter, E & Aroles, J 2023, 'Crisis and Utopia: André Gorz and the end of work', Journal of Classical Sociology, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 211-228. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468795X231170368

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Granter, E & Boscaino, M 2024, The New Enigmas: AI and Platform Work. in J Bratton & L Steele (eds), Artificial intelligence and work : Transforming work, organizations, and society in an age of insecurity. 1st edn, SAGE Publications, pp. 95-110. <https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/artificial-intelligence-and-work/book286109>

Chapter

Granter, E, Peiro, M & Aroles, J 2025, Love, Death and Robots: Envisaging the Future of Work. in C Rees, Ö Bozkurt , S Limoncelli & J Preminger (eds), Edward Elgar Handbook of the Sociology of Work. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

Seymour, K & Granter, E 2025, Critical theory and CMS. in L McCann, E Granter, O Bozkurt, R Finn, C Hunter, N Kivinen, A Kumar & B Wierman (eds), Elgar Encyclopedia of Critical Management Studies. Elgar Encyclopedias in Business and Management, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., pp. 140–146. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800377721.00037

Granter, E & Bozkurt, O 2025, Labour Process Theory. in L McCann, E Granter, O Bozkurt, R Finn, C Hunter, N Kivinen, A Kumar & B Wierman (eds), Elgar Encyclopedia of Critical Management Studies. Elgar Encyclopedias in Business and Management, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., pp. 278–282. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800377721.00068

Granter, E 2025, Resistance. in L McCann, E Granter, O Bozkurt, R Finn, C Hunter, N Kivinen, A Kumar & B Wierman (eds), Elgar Encyclopedia of Critical Management Studies. Elgar Encyclopedias in Business and Management, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., pp. 426–431. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800377721.000103

Paper

Granter, E & Hyde, P 2025, 'Beyond work intensity: Trauma, pandemic and loss in the UK ambulance service', Paper presented at Inclusive futures? 2025 Research Conference from the Work Inclusivity Research Centre (WIRC), Birmingham, United Kingdom, 7/05/25 - 7/05/25.

Hyde, P, Granter, E, McCann, L & Aroles, J 2024, 'Leadership, targets and truth: Authoritarianism in the public sector', Paper presented at 14th Biennial international organizational behaviour in health care conference, Oslo, Norway, 3/04/24 - 5/04/24.

Granter, E & Hyde, P 2024, 'No person-no problem: Totalitarian convergence in university administration', Paper presented at Critical perspectives on impact, Birmingham, United Kingdom, 8/05/24 - 8/05/24.

Review article

Liang, Y, Li, J, Aroles, J & Granter, E 2025, 'Content creation within the algorithmic environment: A systematic review', Work, Employment & Society, vol. 39, no. 4, pp. 787-813. https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170251325784

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Expertise

Future of work; end of work; post-work; work; academic freedom; alternative organizations; utopia; ambulance work; extreme work; gig economy; algorithms; AI at work

Media experience

Edward was featured in The New Statesman: https://www.newstatesman.com/business/work/2021/03/does-end-lockdown-mean-return-normal-office-life