This week, we welcome Assistant Professor Derin Kent (Warwick University, UK) and lecturer Gloria Kutscher (Southampton University, UK) to our little TripleEd community. As we typically do, this implies a round of introductions and discussions on what everyone is up to.
Derin and Gloria will also give a talk to us and the department this Friday (see separate post).
Bios below!
Derin Kent is an assistant professor of organization studies at Warwick Business School, United Kingdom. His research explores how people work in extreme contexts, i.e., those that are physically or psychologically dangerous, drawing from and contributing to theories of sensemaking, meaning of work, and engagement. This research has been published in Organization Studies, Journal of Business Venturing, and Academy of Management Annals, and has appeared in Harvard Business Review and The Conversation. Before joining Warwick Business School, Derin was a postdoctoral researcher at Aalto University, Finland. He earned his PhD in Management at Smith School of Business, Queen’s University at Kingston, Canada.
Gloria Kutscher is a Lecturer in Organization Studies at Southampton Business School. She conducts research on how organizations and individual actors make sense of and respond to different forms of hardship in ways that lead to personal growth and positive social change. By focusing on how these actors notice, make meaning of, and respond to hardship, her research contributes to organizational theories of sensemaking, values and emotions, and institutional change. Gloria’s research has been published in outlets such as Organization Studies, Harvard Business Review and The Routledge Companion to Organizational Diversity Research Methods. Currently, Gloria is social media editor at Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: An International Journal.
This Thursday we will meet and discuss a recent publication within the team. The idea is to map and discuss who we are as researchers, if we change, and the consequences of this on our research. This is in an attempt to open up the discussion for more inclusive approaches to research.
For the past two days, TripleEd and guests (14 of us across the two days) have enjoyed discussing the joys and struggles of doing and publishing ethnographic research in Skeppsvik. Days filled with laughter, candid sharing, and adventure put academia in its best light.
Besides great discussions, Skeppsvik Herrgård delivered a beautiful, calm winter landscape, blue skies, and slowly falling snowflakes with great food. Activities also included proper Northern Sweden “korvgrillning” (one has to use Falukorv, without mustard or ketchup…) with milk chocolate, seeing an eagle floating across the sea, and snowmobiling (a lucky person, Markus could even take the snowmobile to work….)
A lot going on at the same time! We have the absolute pleasure of welcoming Natalie Toft to the TripleEd team. Natalie will be working with Sophie and Markus on the hybrid leadership in the incident command system project and thus closely following the Police ICS in the Northern region for an extended period of time. Welcome, Natalie; we are excited that you chose to join us!
Today we had the great pleasure of listening to Robin Burrow giving a presentation on “Publishing Multiple Papers from Ethnographic Research”. It is not our intention to wear him out, but when you are doing interesting stuff (and are ok with it) and is here for a longer period of time, we can’t but continue involving him! Some really thoughtful and interesting reflections on Robin’s work with highly skilled chefs from all over the world were shared with TripleEd and invited guests from the department!
This week we welcome Robin Burrow (Visiting Researcher and Senior Lecturer at University of York) who will hold a workshop titled “Publishing Multiple Papers from Ethnographic Research” on February 1st from 9:00 – 10:00 in the Green Room. During the workshop, Robin will reflect on his experience publishing four articles, all of which draw on an ongoing data collection effort in elite kitchens. The workshop will provide a behind-the-scenes view on the choices, dilemmas and opportunities inherent in “making the most of the data” collected through ethnographic methods.
Tomorrow, the 25th of January, 2024 we will have the pleasure of reading and giving feedback Robin Burrow’s paper! (not disclosing the title of the paper to interfere with any review process – but it is exciting!)
Markus (Hällgren) is the principal applicant for a new Swedish Research Council-funded project (2024-2026). With Sophie (Jané), they will study how leadership is translated and changed between several incident command organizations within the Police authority. Find more information about the project here: