Dr Zoe Sanderson
Expertise
My research explores how people make positive change by working together.
Current positions
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
University of Bristol Business School
Contact
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Biography
My undergraduate degree was in social and political sciences, specialising in political philosophy alongside social anthropology, sociology, and social psychology. I had a career in managing and developing non-profit organisations before transitioning into policy development work and consultancy. I turned to academia to think more deeply about some of the questions that I had encountered in organisational life, starting with a MSc in Occupational Psychology and then a PhD.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Co-Producing Organisational Knowledge and Values: An Action Research Project with a Community Partner
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
University of Bristol Business SchoolDates
20/01/2021 to 25/03/2024
Publications
Recent publications
01/01/2025Educating for connection: Learning hope and undoing technologies of anti-relationality through aesthetic engagement, decolonial feminism, and action research
Research Handbook on Organizational Aesthetics:
Critical positions
Organizational Psychology Review
Thesis
Becoming and utopia
Supervisors
Award date
30/09/2025
