Our events

• 28 January - Inherited time: Theorising ghosts in organisations
• 4 February - Against rectitude: Understanding the global burial crisis through a postural ethics
• 11 February - Nesting: the practice of re-shaping haute couture ateliers by resident creative directors
• 25 February - Addressing paradoxical tensions between productivity and wellbeing through social symbolic work
• 4 March - Encounters with a world that speaks but we don’t listen: Poetic organizing with more-than-human trees
• 12 March - Understanding the Lives of Flexible Fathers and Precarious Mothers: A Sentimental Research Journey
• 25 March - Book launch event: Handbook on Precarious Work
• 29 April - "Who Are You?": Silence and Melancholia as a Psychic Operation of Power in Diverse Accounting Spaces
• 13 May - Sustaining Care Under Tension: An Ethnography of Pressure and Possibility in Residential Long-Term Care
• 20 May - Leadership ‘to save the world’?
• 27 May - Social work with unmarried mothers and their children: Learning from the past
• 3 June - Collective Career Shocks, Adaptive Complicity and the Sustainability of Academic Careers
• 24 June - Exploring Algorithmic Fairness and Trust in Generative Artificial Intelligence

• 22 January - What is the value of queer? Gentrification and other queer utopias (hosted by CISC)
• 5 February - From self-surveillance to self-leadership for early career women in Pakistan
• 12 February - Conceptualising subjectivity, labour and value within self-employed labour
• 19 February - The Double Shift: Side Jobs as a Strategy to Maintain Legitimacy and Purpose Among Independent Musicians
• 26 February - “PLUS ÉCOUTÉ E•S MORT•E•S QUE VIVANT•E•S ”: Gluing for grievable lives
• 3 March - Musician and author Franz Nicolay discusses his recent book, "Band People"
• 5 March - Reconciling Foucauldian Discourse Analysis (FDA) and Ethnography: key principles and application
• 19 March - Multimodal Experiential Mapping: Towards an innovative adaptive qualitative visual method
• 26 March - Public procurement and Labour Market Inequality – Linkages and Approaches
• 7 May - Big or Small Sustainability? A Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Frogmore Paper Mill
• 28 May - Culture, Capital and Carnival: Modern Media and the Representation of Work
• 4 June - Emergency Food Aid in Britain: The Creep of Marketization and Professionalization
• 25 June - Rethinking Dignity in the Workplace: A Relational Approach
• 1 October - Should I stay or should I go?
• 15 October - Disrupting the rigid boundaries of dominant gender/productivity narratives
• 22 October - Public procurement and Labour Market Inequality – Linkages and Approaches
• 29 October - Pain, precarity and passionate attachment: UK freelance dancers in crisis
• 5 November - Say Goodbye to DEI? Critical Scholars Meet the Moment
• 12 November - Quitting Academia: Gendered Pathways out of the Academy and What Institutions Refuse to Learn
• 19 November - Knowledge with Soul: Fostering Knowledge Sharing through Organisational Spirituality and Trust (Please note that this event was cancelled)
• 26 November - ‘Diverse’ knowers in neoliberal academia: student evaluations of teaching and accent as sites of epistemic injustice
• 10 December - Addressing paradoxical tensions between productivity and wellbeing through social symbolic work (This event was postponed and held in 2026)
• 17 December - The construction of an ideal academic worker and the relation of this to underrepresented groups

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