Triple E.D.

It is our pleasure to welcome Anna Fahlgård Lahache to Umeå and TripleEd. Anna will meet with the TripleED “gang” and give a talk on her dissertation work titled “The analogue work of digital transformation: Essays on digitalization of public administration from an institutional work perspective. Please find Anna’s bio below.

If you happen to be close by the talk will be given in SAM A 333 at 9am, tomorrow Thursday the 29th.

Anna’s bio below

Bio: Anna Fahlgård-Lahache is a PhD Candidate at Stockholm School of Economics, Dept. of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology, and researcher at Totalförsvarets Forskningsinstitut (FOI). Anna’s dissertation research explores the emergent, non-digital, work of doing digital transformation in public administration, in the contexts of Sweden and Taiwan respectively. Departing from a practice-process perspective, her compilation thesis comprises of three essays using longitudinal field studies and archival data. Her dissertation contributes to theory on institutional work in digitalization of public administration, foregrounding aspects such as organizational identity-, policy, legitimacy, temporal- and narrative work.

TripleED has the pleasure of welcoming assistant professor Derin Kent (Warwick University) and lecturer Gloria Kutscher (Southampton University) to Umeå. On Friday in SAM.A.333 at 13-14, they will give a talk on “Extreme contexts as places for working and living: How seafarers manage the boundary of personal and professional life” (see abstract below).

WHAT: presentation by Derin Kent and Gloria Kutscher (bios below)
WHERE: SAM.A.333
WHEN: This Friday (23rd) at 13-14

Abstract:

In everyday life, people engage in boundary management to demarcate work, family, and other life domains. In doing so, they bring order to the conflicting expectations and affordances each of these domains offer. Yet, not all life circumstances let individuals easily maintain the boundaries between work and nonwork. Individuals in settings ranging from cargo shipping to offshore oilrigs to logging camps conduct all aspects of their life confined to the workplace, surrounded 24/7 by colleagues. In this study we explore how members’ orientations to ICE – isolated, confined, and extreme – settings as places to both work and live shape their everyday experience of isolation and confinement. Drawing on fieldwork and interviews with seafaring crews on transatlantic cargo ships we identify four styles of place orientation and their associated boundary work strategies. Two styles were productive, wherein members found meaning in pursuing professional or personal roles in the ICE context. The other two styles were ambivalent, reflecting tensions in balancing work and personal life. Our findings contribute to understanding how individuals actively shape their personal lives in extreme work environments, offering insights into diverse orientations that range from upholding professionalism to seeking intimacy with colleagues.

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.

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 1^st 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.

If you are planning to attend, please email Markus (markus.hallgren(at)umu.se) for readings.

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!)