pathway: Management and Business Studies Alumni

I am influenced by the work of Judith Butler on both heteronormativity and performativity, and am using her work to explore how homosexual and transgender difference is produced as part of the process of career progression.

My research is an ethnographic study of the impact of multiple objectives within the operational arm of the UK forestry commission.

The aim of the research project is to study social innovation within a social enterprise context. Following the findings of my masters’ dissertation, as part of my MRes degree in Management at the University of Exeter, the study will investigate how social enterprises innovate in light of limited resources. One of the central questions for the study is to explore how innovation contributes to social impact within a social enterprise context.

Research interests:

• Governance of hybrid organisations and management
• Social enterprise and innovation
• Value creation through co-production
• Public service innovation
• Bottom of the pyramid innovations and social outcome
• Value measurement in hybrid organisation

The research focuses on the challenges organisations face within the realms of the Third Sector, particularly in response to socio-political driven change for the continued deliverance of public services. Identity evokes questions concerning ‘who we are in relation to others?’ and ‘what makes us different?’. Organisations encompass a collective sense of this, but how does identity initially form and become accomplished by actors over time? The turbulence of both changing environments and institutions introduces a multitude of tensions and interactions between actors seeking to negotiate the challenges of organisational identity.  Particular challenges for organisations include confusion of identity across multiple sectors, the internal and external tensions this elicits, and the positive and/or negative consequences.

The aim of my masters’ dissertation is to project future demand from all sources for diagnostic endoscopy services in one Clinical Commissioning Group in the south of England.  This will use shifting population demographics and the effect of an older population on demand for this service.  Theories of population aging are used to explain why rising life expectancy overstates the effect of population ageing.