Staff

Kate Kenny

Lecturer

PhD Research Co-ordinator

Research Fellow, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow (University of Cambridge)
PhD (University of Cambridge)
MBS (University College Dublin)
BE Civil Engineering (NUI Galway)

Office: 220 Aras Moyola
Telephone: 353 (0)91 495401
Email: kate.kennynuigalway.ie

Member of the NUIG-UL Advanced Research Consortium on Gender, Culture and the Knowledge Society (Gender ARC) and the Power, Conflict and Ideologies Research Cluster

Profile

Kate Kenny is a Lecturer in Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Galway. She is a Research Fellow at Cambridge University’s Judge Business School. She is a fellow of the Cambridge European Trust, and held an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship from 2007-08. She began her career as a Civil Engineer in Ireland and Australia, before moving to Dublin-based I.T. start-up as a Professional Services Manager.

Teaching

SP159: Concepts and Practices in Politics & Sociology
SP501: Sociology of Work
SP703: Spirits of Work and Capitalism
Structured PhD Teaching: Social Theory

Research Interests

I research culture and identity in work and organizations.  Over the last ten years, I have studied construction sector work,and non-profit organizations in international development.  I am currently researching banking and finance organizations in relation to these topics.
  
I am interested in qualitative methodologies including ethnography. Theoretically, I have written on the contribution of psychoanalysis, feminism and poststructuralism to the understanding of workplace identity and culture.

I welcome working with PhD students in any of these areas, and on related ideas.

Selected Publications

Kenny, K. (forthcoming 2012). ’Someone big and important’: Identification and affect in an international development organization’. Organization Studies.

Kenny, K. & Euchler, G. (forthcoming 2012). ’Some Good Clean Fun: Humour in an Advertising Agency’. Gender, Work and Organization 19(3) Download Article

Kenny, K., Willmott, H. & Whittle, A. (2011). Understanding Identity and Organizations. Sage: London. Available here: here.

Power, A. and Kenny, K. (2011). ’When Care is left to roam: Carers' Experiences of Grassroots Nonprofit Services in Ireland’. Health and Place 17(2): 422-429. Available here.

Kenny, K. and Bell, E. (2011). ’Representing the Successful Managerial Body’ in Jeanes, E. Knights, D. and Yancey Martin, P. (eds.) Handbook of Gender, Work and Organization. Blackwell/Wiley.

Kenny, K. (2011). ’Frames of War: When is life grievable?’ (review essay). Journal of Political Power. 3(3): 459-466.

Kenny, K. (2010) ’Beyond ourselves: Passion and the Dark Side of Identification in an Ethical Organization’. Human Relations, vol. 63 no. 6., pp857-873 Download article

Kenny, K (2009) 'Heeding the Stains: Lacan and Organizational Change', Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol 22. No. 2, pp 214-228 Download Article

Kenny, K. (2009) ’The performative surprise: parody, documentary and critique.’ Culture and Organization, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp 221-235. Download Article

Kenny, K. (2009). ’Project Tyne: Using an Extranet for Construction’. Case for analysis in Daft, R, Murphy, J. and Willmott, H. (Eds), Organization Theory and Design, Cengage Learning: London.

Kenny, K. (2008) ’Aesthetics and emotion in an organisational ethnography’, International Journal of Work, Organisation and Emotion, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp.374–388. Download Article

Kenny, K. (2008) ’Arrive Bearing Gifts’: Postcolonial Insights for Development Management. In S. Dar and B. Cooke (Eds), The New Development Management: Critiquing the Dual Modernization. Zed Boo ks: London.

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