Dr Edward Barratt
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Email
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Telephone
+44 (0) 1206 873854
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Location
EBS.3.63, Colchester Campus
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Academic support hours
You can find details of Academic Support hours on the EBS UG and PG information page on Moodle or by calling EBS Student Services on 01206873911
Profile
Qualifications
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BA (Hons)/li>
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MSc
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PhD
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MCIPD.
Research and professional activities
Research interests
the use of genealogical and historical perspectives in the study of management and human resource management
management and human resource management in the Civil Service and public sector in the UK
power and elites
the ethics of human resource management
Conferences and presentations
Guarding Bureaucratic Ethics
EGOS 33rd Collegium, Copenhagen, Denmark, 6/7/2017
5th Critical Management Studies Conference, Manchester.
Manchester, United Kingdom, 2017
Governing project managers
British Academy of Management, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, 6/9/2016
Barratt, E. (2014) 'New Labour and the government of civil servants', Governmentality after Neo - Liberalism, Berkeley, University of California.
Berkeley, United States, 2014
Barratt, E. (2014) Mutualising government, Association of Business Historians, Newcastle.
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, 2014
Barratt, E. (2013) C. Wright Mills and power today, 8th Critical Management Studies Conference, Manchester.
Manchester, United Kingdom, 2013
Barratt, E. (2011) Liberal conservatism and the government of civil servants, 25th ANZAM Conference, Wellington.
Christchurch, New Zealand, 2011
Barratt, E. (2010) C.Wright Mills and CMS a reappraisal, 24th ANZAM, Adelaide. (Awarded prize for best paper in track).
24th ANZAM, Adelaide, Australia, 2010
Barratt, E. (2009) Re reading Mills, 26th SCOS Conference, Copenhagen.
Copenhagen, Denmark, 2009
Barratt, E. (2008) The art of critique, BAM Conference , Harrogate.
Harrogate, United Kingdom, 2008
Barratt, E. (2007) Governing public servants&rsquo 24th SCOS, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2007
Barratt, E. (2007) Genealogy and the government of public servants
2007
Barratt, E. (2006)Revisiting Northcote Trevelyan, ECAS Conference, York.
York, United Kingdom, 2006
Barratt, E. (2005) An alternative future for human resource management? 22nd SCOS, Stockholm.
Stockholm, Sweden, 2005
Barratt, E. (2005) Utopianism in management studies 21st EGOS Conference, Berlin.
Berlin, Germany, 2005
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Principles and Practices in Human Resource Management (BE475)
Publications
Journal articles (15)
Barratt, E., (2020). Parrhesia and the ethics of public service - towards a genealogy of the bureaucrat as frank counsellor.. Foucault Studies. 28 (28), 120-141
Barratt, E., (2019). Speaking frankly - parrhesia and public service. Management and Organizational History. 14 (3), 294-310
Barratt, E., (2016). Book Review: Pragmatism and organization. Organization. 23 (1), 136-139
Barratt, E., (2015). Liberal conservatism, ‘boardization’ and the government of civil servants. Organization. 22 (1), 40-57
Barratt, E., (2014). Bureaucracy, citizenship, governmentality: Towards a re-evaluation of New Labour. ephemera theory & politics in organization. 14 (2), 263-280
Barratt, E., (2014). C Wright Mills, power and the power elites ? a reappraisal. Management and Organizational History. 9 (1), 92-106
Barratt, E., (2014). ?Modernizing? government ? the case of the cooperatives of the Civil Service. Management and Organizational History. 9 (2), 150-165
Barratt, E., (2011). Re-Reading C. Wright Mills. Organization. 18 (5), 707-724
Barratt, E., (2009). Governing public servants. Management & Organizational History. 4 (1), 67-84
Barratt, E., (2008). The later Foucault in organization and management studies. Human Relations. 61 (4), 515-537
BARRATT *, E., (2004). Foucault and the politics of critical management studies. Culture and Organization. 10 (3), 191-202
Barratt, E., (2003). Foucault, HRM and the Ethos of the Critical Management Scholar. Journal of Management Studies. 40 (5), 1069-1087
Barratt, E., (2003). Representing enterprise: The texts of recruitment and change in the UK banking sector. Culture and Organization. 9 (3), 145-160
Barratt, E., (2002). Foucault, Foucauldianism and human resource management. Personnel Review. 31 (2), 189-204
Barrett, E., (1999). Justice in the workplace?. Personnel Review. 28 (4), 307-318
Book chapters (4)
Mackenzie, E. and Barratt, E., (2019). The freelance project manager as an agent of governmentality: evidence from a UK local authority.. In: The Projectification of the Public Sector. Editors: Hodgson, D., Fred, M., Bailey, S. and Hall, P., . Routledge. 250- 266. 978-1138298545
Barratt, E., (2016). Codifying ethics: New Labour and the government of civil servants. In: Governmentality after Neoliberalism. Editors: Bevir, M., . Routledge. 9781138923447
Barratt, E., (2016). 'Neo - liberalism'; 'hierarchy'; 'bureaucracy'; 'power'. In: Encyclopedia of Human Resource Management. Editors: Wilkinson, A. and Johnstone, S., . Edward Elgar. 978 1 78347 545 2
Barratt, E., (2014). C Wright Mills and the Theorists of Power. In: The Oxford Handbook of Sociology, Social Theory, and Organization Studies. Editors: Adler, P., du Gay, P., Morgan, G. and Reed, M., . Oxford University Press. 249- 265. 9780199671083
Contact
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