Our events

We host a fortnightly research seminar series as well as visiting scholars, research collaborations and conferences.

• Neither here nor there: Liminal spaces and storytelling in two UK-based organisations - Ian Rodwell, City University
• In Brexit’s wake: the left behind and the politics of class – Dr Ed Barratt, Essex Business School
• Unusual suspects in identity research – Dr Ingo Winkler, University of Southern Denmark, Professor Stefanie Reissner, Essex Business School and Dr Rosalía Cascón-Pereira, University Rovira I Virgili 
• HR Essex and Ipswich CIPD half day event and annual meeting - Join us for our annual event with leading practitioners and HRM academics exploring practical solutions for current and future HR challenges. You will also learn more about the Essex and Ipswich CIPD branch and volunteering opportunities and benefits.
• Engaging with G W Mead to problematize potentially dominant effects of artificial intelligence (AI) on subjectivities - Dr Guy Huber, Oxford Brookes University and Professor David Knights, Lancaster University
• The persistence of sexism and racism at universities - Dr Bontu Lucie Guschke, Freie Universität Berlin
• From male chauvinism to techno-chauvinism: Misogyny in a digital age – Professor Nancy Harding, University of Bath

• Does money motivate you? How top managers handle moral accountability in the media – Professor Andrea Whittle, Newcastle University Business School
• It's behind you? Gender, equality and COVID in the UK theatre – Cathy Wilson, Essex Business School
• Gender, money, and sexuality: An exploration into the relational work of Pakistani khwajasiras – Dr Daniela Pianezzi, University of Verona 
• Hybrid and remote conflict management: Evidence from the UK higher education sector – Dr Elaine Yerby, Essex Business School and Dr Ruth Reaney, University of Glasgow
• Annual Heather Höpfl Memorial Seminar - Time Won’t Tell: Misrecognition and the temporality of menopausal subjectivities – Professor Jo Brewis, The Open University
• Temporalities of working homes and work-life balance in the context of the (post) COVID hybrid work - Dr Michel Ajzen, UCLouvain
• The gendered surplus value of precarious labour – Dr Nela Smolović Jones, The Open University, Dr Owain Smolović Jones, The Open University and Dr Caroline Clarke, The Open University
• A social institution: Co-creating value with your milkman – Dr Philippa Ward, University of Gloucestershire