Seminar

Tuesday 25 March 2025, 12pm to 2pm
and
Wednesday 26 March 2025, 1pm to 2.30pm

The Boardroom, Gateway Building

Presenter:

• Dr Mike Marinetto, Cardiff University.

These joint events with the the University of St Andrews Business School Department of Management’s Work, Organisations and Society thematic research group will welcome Dr Mike Marinetto from Cardiff University.

Dr Marinetto is Reader in Management at Cardiff Business School. His current research focuses on the intersection of business ethics and crime, particularly in relation to the accumulation of wealth through unethical practices.

Tuesday’s seminar is titled, ‘”Unfollowing the money”?: the epistemic, economic, and methodological case for “studying up” rather than “studying down” in the social sciences’.

On Wednesday the topic is, ‘Learn to write boldly (or, how to succeed in management studies): the case of sensemaking in organisation studies and scholarly self-promotion (via mediopassive constructions)’.

All welcome. Please reply to the invitations circulated to members or email Business School Research Admin on [email protected] and include a note of any dietary requirements.

Thursday 20 March 2025
10am to 11.30m
Seminar Room 4/5, Gateway Building

Presenter:

• Vanessa Marr, University of Brighton.

This joint event with the the University of St Andrews Business School Department of Management’s Knowledge and Practice thematic research group will welcome practice-based researcher and maker Vanessa Marr, Principal Lecturer at the School of Arts and Media, University of Brighton.

Vanessa Marr will speak on the seminar topic, ‘Storytelling through craft: using stitch as a catalyst for feminist and change-making conversations’. She will also share her best-known project Domestic Dusters, which invites women to embroider yellow dusters with their experiences and perspectives of domesticity. The project is part of International Women’s Day activities at the University’s Wardlaw Museum.

All welcome. Please reply to the invitation circulated to members or email Business School Research Admin on [email protected] and include a note of any dietary requirements.

 

Wednesday 12 February 2025
12.30pm to 2pm
Seminar Room 6, Gateway Building

Presenter:

• • Professor Kristina Potočnik, University of Edinburgh.

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 a seminar and networking lunch.

Professor Kristina Potočnik, Personal Chair of Organisational Behaviour at the University of Edinburgh Business School, will speak on the seminar topic, ‘It is not just about the hot flushes and mood swings! Exploring the role of employee agentic behaviours and support from employers and colleagues in managing menopause transition in the workplace’.

All welcome. Please reply to the invitation circulated to members or email Business School Research Admin on [email protected] and include a note of any dietary requirements.

Wednesday 20 November 2024
11.30am to 1pm
Seminar Room 1, School of Medicine

Presenter:

• Professor Wendy Loretto, University of Edinburgh.

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 a seminar, networking lunch and pre-booked one-to-one meetings.

Professor Wendy Loretto, Professor of Organisational Behaviour and former Dean of University of Edinburgh Business School, will speak on the seminar topic, ‘Health, ageing and work: challenges and paradoxes of hiding in plain sight’.

All welcome. Please reply to the invitation circulated to members or email Business School Research Admin on [email protected] and include a note of any dietary requirements.

Early career researchers who would like to discuss career progression with Professor Loretto in an after-lunch session may book a meeting with her by contacting [email protected].

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Tuesday 21 May 2024
1pm to 2:30pm
Lecture Room 2, Gateway Building

Presenter:

• Dr Silvia Filippi, University of Padova.

This joint event with the the University of St Andrews Business School Department of Management’s Work, Organisations and Society thematic research group and its EDI committee will include a networking lunch at 1pm followed by a seminar at 1:30pm.

The session will consider:

• workers’ well-being in organisations that have a large gap in pay between top managers and other workers
• harm to women and men caused by inequalities at work
• workers’ well-being and performance in organisations where power is decentralised.

All welcome.
Please email [email protected] to register your attendance, and for catering purposes include a note of any dietary requirements you may have.

Thursday 2 May 2024
11am – 2pm Lecture Room 2, Gateway Building

Presenter:

• Dr Rashné Limki, University of Edinburgh Business School.

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

The morning session, titled ‘Decolonial approaches to knowledge production’, will explore the meaning of coloniality and its implication in the production and presentation of knowledge. The aim will be to lay the foundation for developing decolonial praxis.

In the afternoon, ‘Decolonial approaches to pedagogy’ will consider practices that can facilitate rethinking pedagogy from a decolonial perspective.

Please email [email protected] for further information.

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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.