School of Management and Marketing

I lecture in a range of management subjects at the School of Management and Marketing, Charles Sturt University. Since 1995, I have lectured in the Tertiary sector, including business schools at universities in London, England and Otago, New Zealand. Prior to that, I had extensive management and project management experience. My teaching philosophy supports the view that students acquire knowledge by relating new information to existing frames of reference and by engaging reflexively with their learning, reflecting critically on what we know, and how and why we know it.

My research is in the field of workplace identity-construction examining the interplay of power and resistance on occupational/professional identity construction.

I take a critical management perspective, focusing on the works of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler. I am a qualitative researcher, using discourse analysis.

I have published several book chapters; a range of peer reviewed articles on professional and workplace identity construction, and presented many conference papers at a national and international level.

Teaching

• MGT210 Organisational Behaviour
• MGT320 Change Management
• MGT330 Business Strategy
• MGT540 Management of Change 

Research Focus

• Critical theory
• Work and occupational identity construction
• Professional identity construction 
• Managerialism and relationships between managers and their staff
• Career development, transition and change
• Post professionalism

Research Project Supervision

• Organisational change
• Workplace behaviour
• Professional development
• Professionalisation/professionalism
• Identity construction

Current Research students

Lisa Chapman DBA
Exploring niceness as a facet of emotional labour

Paul Kremer MBA
A critical review of job embeddedness: The relationship between social networks and power relations (completed with distinction)

Professional Activities

Member of:

• The Association for Qualitative Research
• Career Development Association of New Zealand

Reviewer for:

• International Journal for Educational and Vocational Development
• Australian Journal of Career Development 

Grants and Awards

CSU School of Management and Marketing Small Project Funding
Research on Age, transition and workplace identity construction
$12,500 

CSU School of Management and Marketing Small Project Funding
Research on professional identity construction of accountants who choose to work for aid agencies in the not-for-profit sector (with Associate Professor Jenny Kent)
$7,500

Selected Publications

Book Chapters

'Welfare to work: economic challenges to socially just practice.' In B. A. Irving & B. Malik (Eds.). (2005). Critical Reflections on career education and guidance: Promoting social justice within a global economy. London: Routledge Farmer, pp. 25-40.

'Thinking allowed: Developing informed practice.' In Reid, H. & Bimrose, J. (Eds.). (2004). Career Guidance, Constructing the Future: Reflections on practice. Stourbridge: Institute of Career Guidance, pp. 23-37 (Refereed).

'Making connections: Developing networks for effective practice' (2002) Career Guidance, Constructing the Future. Social inclusion: Policy and practice. Institute of Career Guidance (Ed.). Stourbridge: Institute of Career Guidance, pp 105-116.

Refereed Journal Articles

‘Between a rock and a hard place: Resistance and the formation of professional identity’. International Journal of Educational and Vocational Guidance (2011) 11:163–173 DOI 10.1007/s10775-011-9205-4.

‘Striving to be a professional in a post-professional world.’ The Spanish Journal of Career Guidance and Counseling (REOP). (2010). 21 (3) pp. 561-570.

‘Sustaining the self: Implications for the development of career practitioners’ professional identity.’ Australian Journal of Career Development.  (2010). 19 (3) pp. 24-32.

 ‘Becoming a ‘professional’: Researching the development of career practitioners’ professional identity in a New Zealand context.’ Career Research and Development. (2010). Issue 24 pp. 23-27.

'If you love your work, do you thank a Careers Counsellor?' With S. L. Smith. (2002). Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture (20) Summer pp. 127-136.

‘Flexible work practices in histopathology laboratories: a human resource solution to a systemic problem’ With S. Corby & G. White. (2002). Biomedical Scientist. 46 (8) pp. 827-828.

‘Asking why? Training to be a professional.’ (2002). Career Guidance Today. 10 (2) pp. 29-31.

‘Managing a flexible future’ (1999). ICG Occasional Paper 2; Stourbridge: Institute of Careers Guidance pp. 69-75.

‘An account of development work in careers education and guidance with a group of young offenders.’ (1998). Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties. 3 (3) pp. 13-18.

‘Educating the advisers.’ (1998). Careers Education and Guidance Journal. December, pp. 16-18. 

Refereed Conference Proceedings

‘Anyone can do guidance … Losing and finding professional identity in a complex chain of services.’ Coherence, Co-operation and Quality in Guidance and Counselling, International Association of Educational and Vocational Guidance Conference, 3 - 5 June 2009, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Proceedings online http://ktl.jyu.fi/ktl/iaevg2009fin/full_papers 

Working Papers

‘Does it work? Evaluating a new pay system.’ (2003). With S. Corby, G. White, P. Dennison , J. Drucker & E. Meerabeau. London: University of Greenwich Press.