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Visiting Fellowship Programme 2012

"Inspiring Leadership in society"

Our Visiting Fellowship Programme will greatly enhance the Institute’s research agenda by expanding our network of researchers, business professionals, and policy makers across the globe.

The Institute’s Visiting Fellowship Programme is tailor made to suit the needs of each Visiting Fellow. This begins with a sponsor academic or researcher who will normally share a common interest with the Fellow. Over the course of the visit the Fellow will also meet with researchers who share common interests and with a cross-section of the Institute’s cluster leaders, and so encourage a trans-disciplinary approach to our research endeavours.

The visit is seen as having a primary function of enriching the network of both the Institute and the Visiting Fellow. This will be initiated through the sponsor academic or researcher and will ensure access to the current thinking of the Institute. The Fellow will also be advised of on-going events and developments and will be encouraged to return to the Institute to further enhance the collaborations established.

Each Visiting Fellow will give a Seminar while at NUI Galway. Please visit our EVENTS PAGE for details.

Visiting Fellows 2012

Dr. Peter N. Bloom, School of Business and Economics, Swansea University, UK

Fellowship Title: Exploring the Glocalization of Activism and Empowerment

Specialist Subjects: Theories of Ideology, Power, Psychoanalysis, and Organisational Theory

My primary research interests centre theoretically on critical reinterpretations of ideology, subjectivity and power specifically as it relates to broader discourses and everyday practices of capitalism. I am particularly interested in studying how modern desires, linked to ideas of affective fantasy, are shaped at the level of the organization and society generally. More precisely, this involves the ways in which present day firms and leaders establish and reproduce organizational values and prerogatives through shaping experiences of organizational empowerment. This involves opening the space for employees to rationally pursue goals, experience agency, and even wage resistance ultimately in conformity to established managerial desires and prevailing market values. Empirically my focus is on emerging organizational behaviour with special within modern day firms and as especially focused on China. For more information, please visit my Institutional webpage.

Dates of Visit: 10 - 21 September 2012

Staff Sponsor: Dr. Terry McDonough

Thematic Area(s): Conflict and Collective Action; Identity, Gender and Culture.

Dr. Niall Cullinane, Management School, Queen's University Belfast

Fellowship Title: Employee Silence and Knowledge Hoarding

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Employee representation/participation, employer strategies to employee voice, industrial relations/sociology of wor

I have been involved in conducting and publishing research in the area of employee voice and employee representation, with both academic and public policy impact. I have been a recipient of PRTLI funded initiatives, IRCHSS and ESRC projects, all of which have a direct connection to the thematic priorities of the Institute. To date, this has led to output in several internationally renowned publications including Associated Business School (ABS) 4*, 3* and 2* ranked journals. My work has further resulted in appointments on external research exercises like the European Commission’s Information and Consultation Directives ’Fitness Checks’ Review and external bodies like the Labour Relations Agency of Northern Ireland. My research has also been reported by the International Centre for Trade Union Rights. For more information, please visit my Institutional webpage.

Dates of Visit: 7 - 17 August 2012

Staff Sponsor: Dr. Tony Dundon

Thematic Area(s): Business Performance, Agility and Governance; Conflict and Collective Action.

Dr. Marianna Fotaki, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK

Fellowship Title: Inspiring Leadership in Society

Biography: I am a qualified medical doctor holding a doctorate in public policy and MSc (Econ) in health planning and financing both, from London School of Economics and Political Science. I also have postgraduate degrees in public health medicine from Athens School of Public Health and in Chinese Medicine from Beijing University. Having worked in clinical medicine for five years, as volunteer doctor and a manager for Medecins du Monde and Medecins sans Frontiers for two years, and as a senior consultant to the governments in transition economies for the European Union afterwards for another seven years, I have decided to become a full time academic. In this major career shift I seek to further my personal development and to contribute to knowledge by bringing my diverse experience to theorising on policy development and organisational practice. My research interests range from marketisation of public services in the EU and economies in transition, translation of public policies to organisations, diversity, gender and otherness in organisations and more recently, business ethics in society. For more information, please visit my Institutional webpage.

Dates of Visit: 17 - 26 October 2012

Staff Sponsor: Dr. Kate Kenny

Thematic Area(s): Business Performance, Agility and Governance; Identity, Gender and Culture.

Dr. Mia Gray, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, UK

Fellowship Title: Inspiring Leadership in Society

Research Areas: My research is on the socially embedded and spatial nature of labour markets. Within that I'm interested in inequality, particularly that based on gender and ethnicity; informalisation of labour markets; and institutions of the labour market, such as unions and staffing agenicies. I am a geographer at Cambridge University. I am also very involved in the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies, where I sit on the management committee and the advisory board. I also co-edit the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, which highlights mutli-disciplinary international research on the spatial dimensions of contemporary socio-economic-political change. For more information, please visit my Institutional webpage.

Dates of Visit: 15 - 21 October 2012

Staff Sponsor: Dr. Gemma Carney

Thematic Area(s): Health and Well-Being; Identity, Gender and Culture.

Dr. Leonard Holmes, Business School, University of Roehampton, UK

Fellowship Title: Inspiring Leadership in Society

About: Leonard was appointed Reader in Management at Roehampton University in March 2009, having worked previously at two other universities in various roles. He has a background in the employee training and development field, particularly trainer training and management and professional development.

His main research interests are in issues concerning expertise (knowledge, skill, competence, learning, assessment, etc), particularly in respect of the social character of the forms in which these are manifested in modern social and economic life. He is especially interested in how judgements and appraisals of knowledge and skill are made, how such judgements and appraisals both reflect and reproduce differences in opportunity within society and their effects upon organisational and societal functioning.

Research Interests
Emergent identity
Managerial and professional expertise
Practice-based understandings of learning and expertise
Managerial identity and careers
Graduate 'employability'

For more information, please visit my Institutional webpage.

Dates of Visit: 27 August - 07 September 2012

Staff Sponsor: Drs Tony Dundon and Tony Royle

Thematic Area(s): Business Performance, Agility and Governance.

Dr. Andreas Kornelakis, Department of Business and Management, University of Sussex, UK

Fellowship Title: Liberalization, Flexibility and Employment Relations Change in Southern European Telecoms since the 1990s

Biography: Andreas Kornelakis completed his PhD thesis in European Political Economy at the London School of Economics with a full scholarship from Bodossaki Foundation and LSE. Work-in-progress from his thesis was awarded the 'Michael Rose' Best Paper Prize at the conference of the journal Work, Employment & Society. In parallel with his PhD, he has been a Visiting Researcher at the European University Institute (Florence), and has worked as a Researcher at the LSE and as a Visiting Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London. Before his PhD, Andreas completed an MSc in International Employment Relations and Human Resource Management (Distinction) at the LSE, with a scholarship from Propondis Foundation, and was awarded the 'Keith Thurley' Prize for Best Overall Performance. Finally, he was awarded the IKY Prize for Best Overall Performance for his BSc at Panteion University of Athens. For more information, please visit my Institutional webpage.

Dates of Visit: 10 - 14 September 2012

Staff Sponsor: Drs Tony Dundon, Kate Kenny and Tony Royle

Thematic Area(s): Business Performance, Agility and Governance; Innovation, Creative Communities and the Smart Economy.

Professor Carole Leathwood, Institute for Policy Studies in Education, London Metropolitan University, UK

Fellowship Title: Inspiring Leadership in Society

I specialise in research in higher and post-compulsory education, with a particular focus on educational inequalities related to gender, social class and ’race’, and on critical policy analysis. My primary disciplinary field is the sociology of education, and in particular the application of feminist theory and approaches to educational concerns. My research has included projects on equality issues for staff in further and higher education; social class and access to HE; student experiences of higher education; graduate access to the labour market; and a comparative study of educational policies to tackle disadvantage in Europe.

My research interests include:
Gender and higher education
Debates about the ’feminisation’ of education
Education policy
Feminist theory, research and practice
Rationality, emotion and subjectivity in higher education
Widening participation and inequalities in HE
Constructions of student and academic identities

For more information, please visit my Institutional webpage.

Dates of Visit: 05 - 09 November 2012

Staff Sponsor: Dr. Kelly Coate

Thematic Area(s): Identity, Gender and Culture.

Dr. Stanley J. Shapiro, Professor Emeritus, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Fellowship Title: Marketing and Society

A former marketing professor first at the Wharton School, then at McGill University and Simon Fraser University, Stanley J Shapiro also served as Dean of Business at Mc Gill (1973-1978) and SFU (1987-1997). Between 1998 and 2003, he was a member of the Academic Council of the Open University of British Columbia. Dr Shapiro then served for six years on the Province of British Columbia’s Degree Quality Assessment Board. Stan Shapiro has authored sixty academic papers, edited 13 books or monographs and, over 25 years, has Canadianised nine successive editions of Mc Carthy & Perreault’s Basic Marketing. He is a former editor of the Journal of Macromarketing, a past Governor and Distinguished Fellow of the Academy of Marketing Science and currently is an Associate Editor both of Social Business and the Journal of Historical Research in Marketing. He has been a manuscript review for a dozen academic journals, including, for some thirty years, the Journal of Marketing, Marketing’s leading four star journal.

Dates of Visit: 22 - 26 October 2012

Staff Sponsor: Ann Walsh and Dr. Christine Domegan

Thematic Area(s): Environment, Development and Sustainability

Dr. Stevphen Shukaitis, Essex Business School, University of Essex, UK

Fellowship Title: The Metropolitan Factory: The Labour of Self-Management in Creative Clusters

Specialist Subjects: Theories of Ideology, Power, Psychoanalysis, and Organisational Theory

Stevphen Shukaitis is an editor at Autonomedia and lecturer at the University of Essex. He is the author of Imaginal Machines: Autonomy & Self-Organization in the Revolutions of Everyday Life (Autonomedia, 2009) and editor (with Erika Biddle and David Graeber) of Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations // Collective Theorization (AK Press, 2007). His research focuses on the emergence of collective imagination in social movements and the changing compositions of cultural and artistic labor. For more information, please visit my Institutional webpage.

Dates of Visit: 25 July - 01 August 2012

Staff Sponsor: Dr. Kate Kenny and Dr. Patrick Collins

Thematic Area(s): Innovation, Creative Communities and the Smart Economy; Conflict and Collective Action

Professor Ian Walker, Department of Geography, University of Victoria, Canada

Fellowship Title: Coastal dune erosion, restoration and climate change impacts

Professor Walker is a geomorphologist with expertise in beach-dune geomorphology, sedimentary processes, coastal erosion, and wind (aeolian) processes. Dr. Walker's research takes place on beaches and dunes across north America in Prince Edward Island National Park (Greenwich Dunes), Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands), Pacific Rim National Park (Tofino-Ucluelet), and Cape Cod National Seashore (Massachusetts, USA). This work involves close collaboration with Parks Canada, BC Parks, US National Park Service, the Geological Survey of Canada, and many international colleagues. Dr. Walker directs the Coastal Erosion & Dune Dynamics (CEDD) Laboratory, which studies the erosion, morphodynamics and restoration of sandy beach-dune systems and explores linkages to land use changes and climatic change impacts. CEDD Lab also studies recent geological (late Quaternary) changes in coastal landscapes using LiDAR and various dating techniques. His research is funded by NSERC, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Natural Resources Canada, Geological Survey of Canada, Parks Canada, and MITACS. For more information, please visit my Institutional webpage.

Dates of Visit: 20 - 26 August 2012

Staff Sponsor: Dr. Kevin Lynch

Thematic Area(s): Environment, Development and Sustainability.

Dr. Simon Western, Analytic Coaching Limited, UK

Fellowship Title: Inspiring Leadership in Society

Currently: Director of Analytic-Network Coaching Ltd, offering a researched and innovative coaching process, that aims to transform the way coaching impacts on both individuals and organizations.

His interests are wide ranging from leadership, organizational culture, architecture, enironmentalism, religious studies, politics and social sciences. All his academic work emerges from a critical and ethical perspective, where he claims our task is to work in ’good faith’ to build the ’good society’.

Thought Leader and People Development: Academia and Teaching
Previously: Director of Coaching at Lancaster University Management School, and of Masters in Organizational Consultancy (psychoanalytic approaches) Tavistock Clinic. Simon has a pedigree of teaching internationally, and publishing on both leadership and coaching.

Practitioner: Leadership and Strategic Coach, and Consultant
Simon works in diverse organizations in order to learn from difference, and cross-fertilize and share this knowledge. Simon works with C-Suite leaders, and is invited to work in teams that face big challenges; and in organizations that are working to transform cultures to distribute leadership and create matrix structures.

Clients Leaders in: Astra Zeneca, Gaz de France, Gap Inc. USA, NHS Chief Executives, International Red Crescent/Cross (Sudan) & U.N. (Kosovo), IMD and London Business School, Global OD team HSBC, CEO of Chemistry co. Leaders in the educational sector, and the CEO of hospice attempting to radically change how care to the dying is delivered.

For more infomration, please visit my website.

Dates of Visit: 03 - 07 September 2012

Staff Sponsor: Dr. James Cunningham

Thematic Area(s): Environment, Development, and Sustainability; Business Performance, Agility and Governance; Innovation, Creative Communities and the Smart Economy

Whitaker Institute for Innovation and Societal Change
J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics
NUI Galway
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