Professor Sheena Vachhani
BSc(UMIST), PhD(Manch.)
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Current positions
Professor of Work and Organisation Studies
School of Management - Business School
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Research interests
I am Professor of Work and Organization Studies and Co-director of the research group on Action Research and Critical Inquiry in Organisations (ARCIO). My work centres around ethics, politics and difference in work and organization. I have a particular interest in embodiment and how systems and structures of inequality, including those reified by climate change and narratives of sustainability, offer new insights into business, politics and society.
I am currently engaged in a number of research projects that draw on the intersections between structures of inequality, organisations and society, namely: critiquing and investigating the relationship between affect, language and corporeality; ethico-political resistance in activism and social movements; feminist methodologies; vulnerability and the politics of solidarity; and craft practices informed by new materialism.
My previous work has explored: the politics of writing; corporeality in physical labour under neoliberalism; dirty work and critical approaches to innovation. I also have a longstanding interest in using critical perspectives to teach and research leadership.
I am an expert consultant for INSPIRE - Horizon Europe Centre of Excellence on Inclusive Gender Equality in Research and Innovation (https://www.inspirequality.eu/), a member of the UKRI Interdisciplinary Assessment College and affiliate of the Bristol Digital Futures Institute.
I am co-editor (with Emma Bell) of the book series ‘Feminist Perspectives on Work and Organization’, published by Bristol University Press. I publish in journals such as: Organization Studies; Human Relations; Work, Employment and Society; Journal of Business Ethics and Organization amongst others. I am former associate editor and editorial board member for Gender, Work and Organization and currently serve as editorial board and strategic advisory board member for Leadership. I have co-edited special issues of: Organization Studies; Organization; Gender, Work and Organization; and Leadership.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Does Motherhood Need Mitigating? A Collective Examination of Parenting and Academic Practice
Principal Investigator
Role
Collaborator
Managing organisational unit
Department of History (Historical Studies)Dates
01/01/2023 to 31/07/2023
An investigation of Irish craft imaginaries
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Management - Business SchoolDates
02/05/2022
Digital technhologies and safe-water access - Participatory research project
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Principal Investigator
Description
This participatory project with Groundwater Relief will critically consider the extent and ways in which digital technologies can contribute to systemic, large-scale improvements in safe water access and management (pragmatic…Managing organisational unit
School of Management - Business SchoolDates
01/03/2022 to 31/07/2022
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
22/03/2024A leadership of refusal
British Journal of Management
The (academic) chair
Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies
Feminist Ethics and Women Leaders
Leadership, Gender, and Organization
Networked feminism in a digital age – Mobilising vulnerability and reconfiguring feminist politics in digital activism
Gender, Work and Organization
Personality, Individual Differences and Self
Introducing Organisational Behaviour and Management – 4th Edition