Jennifer Kerr

Friday 9 February 2024
11am – 1.30pm
Lecture Room 2, The Gateway

Presenter:

• Professor Shuang Ren, Queen’s University, Belfast.

This joint event with the the University of St Andrews Business School Department of Management’s Work, Organisations and Society thematic research group will include two talks and lunch.

11am to 12noon
Professor Ren will share tips on publishing in high-ranking journals and what it is like being an editor, based on her extensive editorial experience for BJM, JOOP, and other journals.
Q&A warmly welcomed: bring your burning questions on academic publishing along!

12pm to 12.30pm
Lunch.

12.30pm to 1.30pm
Research talk: The Influence of competitive action intensity on team performance via leader bottom-line mentality? a social information processing perspective

All welcome.
Lunch will be served. Please email [email protected] to register your attendance for catering purposes and note any dietary requirements you may have.

Photo by Kaitlyn Baker on Unsplash

Thursday 16 November 2023
12pm – 1pm
Boardroon, Gateway Building

Presenters:

• Alexander Fleischmann and Alyson Meister, IMD Lausanne, Switzerland.

Chronic illness is an often-overlooked dimension of diversity. It can enter one’s life at any point in time and many people struggle to reconcile their professional identity with their chronically ill body/mind. This is further complicated by the often-invisible nature of chronic illness.

This talk will give first insights into an ongoing qualitative empirical study on how individuals navigate chronic illnesses in the context of work. The emerging topics include:

• a desire to ‘pass as normal’, which can often only be fulfilled when not in an ‘illness crisis mode’
• seeing the chronic illness as a ‘second full time job’
• the stress involved in ‘coming out’ towards supervisors and colleagues.

The presentation will highlight the fluid and ever-changing face of chronic illness. It will also reflect on the barriers that the chronic illness imposes physically and mentally, as well as the barriers that appear in workplaces and with colleagues that are not prepared to accommodate for invisible diversities and conditions that change over time.

All welcome.
Lunch will be served. Please email [email protected] to register your attendance for catering purposes and note any dietary requirements you may have.

Wednesday 9 June 2021
12pm – 1pm

Presenters:

• Dr Boyka Bratanova
• Dr Juliette Summers
• Shuting Liu.

The presentation will share the findings from a survey conducted in August 2020, which was patterned after the Prejudice Barometer 2018 carried out by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). Using the EHRC measures meant that the researchers, all from the University of St Andrews School of Management,  could benchmark and broadly assess changes in prejudiced attitudes before and during the pandemic.

The study examined the prejudiced attitudes of respondents in relation to their worries about the virus. It considered economic factors that might affect their endorsement of prejudiced attitudes, such as their income, job security and inequality of pay in their workplace (i.e., pay ratio).

The research focussed on prejudiced attitudes toward people with protected characteristics, and also toward three groups particularly affected by the pandemic:
• people of low socio-economic status
• people with a mental health condition
• obese people.

By looking at different forms of prejudice, the study builds a picture that reveals challenges while it highlights opportunities for policy measures that can improve the situation for people who are targets of prejudiced attitudes.

Photo by Vera Davidova on Unsplash

Wednesday 26 May 2021
2pm – 3:15pm

Presenters:

• Dr Boyka Bratanova
• Shuting Liu
• Dr Juliette Summers.

This seminar will be presented by colleagues from the University of St Andrews School of Management. Their talk will discuss research that uses data from Scotland and the USA, and provides evidence that pay inequality, both perceived and actual, has harmful effects for employees. The analysis shows that high CEO pay and high pay inequality are linked to the following for employees:

• perceptions of their employer as less caring and competent
• lower engagement
• lower trust
• feelings of not being treated fairly, valued, or respected at work
• heightened perception of prejudice, discrimination, bullying and harassment at work
• lower wellbeing.

The study demonstrates that these effects are partly or fully explained by a perceived culture of competition within the organisation, marked by heightened social comparison and a focus on performance over learning and ethics.

The presentation will consider reasons that organisations may struggle to foster a culture conducive to engagement, inclusion and wellbeing. The researchers will acknowledge the limitations of the current research, and discuss the challenges and opportunities for future study.

This CREDI event has been organised jointly with the School of Management’s series of brown bag research seminars. The series aims to provide opportunities to showcase ongoing research and offer a regular space for colleagues across the School to come together and open up research conversations across the thematic groups and research centres.

Panel members:

• Dr Foluke Adebisi,
  University of Bristol Law School
• Dr Jason Arday,
  Durham University
• Dr Khadija Mohammed,
  University of the West of Scotland

Thursday 18 March 2021
12 noon – 2pm

Guest expert panelists will answer questions about decolonisation of the curriculum with respect to race and practical steps the University of St Andrews can take to embed inclusive and decolonial practice.

The panelists welcome relevant questions in advance. To submit a question, please email [email protected] by Monday 22 February 2021.

This webinar is open to all staff and students. The event is free to attend. However, please use the Eventbrite link below to register attendance.

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Professor Paul Weller,
Coventry University

Wednesday 17 March 2021
1pm – 2pm

Professor Paul Weller will present this seminar entitled “Uncovering and tackling religion- or belief-related harassment: lessons from an office for students’ research and intervention project”.

The presentation will discuss a Coventry University project led by Professor Weller, ‘Tackling religion-based hate crime on the multi-faith campus’.

The project aimed to:

• better support students in understanding what religion-based hate crime is and encourage them to report and receive support
• strengthen the existing reporting and case management mechanism to ensure it addresses religion-based hate crime affecting students
• provide an exemplar for the HE sector via partnership with, and knowledge sharing through, national organisations working on HE equality policy (ECU) and with Church of England chaplains.

Professor Ruth Woodfield and Dr Anna Brown,
University of St Andrews

Professor Ruth Woodfield, CREDI Co-Director, and Dr Anna Brown will  host an online research seminar entitled “Belonging, Bodies, Banter and Beyond: bringing a Bakhtinian lens to organisational tensions within the UK Fire and Rescue Service”.

Wednesday 9 December 2020

2.30pm – 4pm

Abstract
The authors use a Bakhtinian lens to understand organisational tensions in the Fire Service. Their research explores the role of banter, and ‘beyond banter’ episodes, in affirming and challenging hierarchical relationships between various groups – including men and women – within the Service.

Photo by Charlota Blunarova on Unsplash

Access a recording of the “Belonging, Bodies, Banter and Beyond” seminar below. University of St Andrews login for Streams is required.