Professor Carole Elliott
PhD, MSc, BA
Management School
Associate Dean for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Development
Professor of Organisation Studies
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Management School
Sheffield University Management School
Conduit Road
Sheffield
S10 1FL
- Profile
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Carole was awarded her PhD from Lancaster University in 2004. She gained her MSc in Human Resource Development (with Distinction) from Lancaster University in 1998, and a BA in Modern Languages from the University of Western Australia. She is an Academic Fellow of the CIPD, a Council Member of the British Academy of Management (BAM), and a former editor-in-chief of 'Human Resource Development International'. She has previously worked at the Universities of Lancaster, Hull, Durham, and Roehampton, before her appointment as Professor of Organisation Studies at Sheffield in May 2020.
- Research interests
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Carole's research interests lie at the intersection of disciplinary fields: management and leadership learning, organization studies and human resource development. Her early research interests developed in response to a curiosity about the development of the self for work, particularly among managers and leaders. The interpretive foundation for this body of research is located in critical theory, particularly as it has been applied to the management studies and human resource development fields.
Her early research focus on the individual learning experience provides a backdrop for continuing inquiries into the power dynamics of learning environments, including her interest in women’s leadership learning, and in teaching and learning within international management education settings. An examination of business schools’ visual representations of their claims to internationalisation has led to an innovative area of methodological work that adopts a visual semiotic framework as one stage of a hermeneutic analysis of webpages. She continues to develop and apply this methodological development to different contexts: examinations of women leaders’ visual representations; organisations’ representation of their corporate ‘historic’ web identity; and conceptual contributions around the implications for organizations in the light of the ‘visual’ and ‘digital’ turns.
She has worked with, and taken the lead in research with scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds: management learning; organization studies; leadership; human resource management, and organization psychology.
From 2014-2017 she was the principal investigator of the ESRC Seminar Series 'Challenging Gendered Media Mis(s)Representations of Women Professionals and Leaders'. The seminar series has led to outputs in: Organization Studies; Gender, Work and Organization; Management Learning, and the edited collection Gender, Media and Organization: Challenging Mis(s)Representation of Women Leaders and Managers.
- Publications
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Books
- Critical Thinking in Human Resource Development. Routledge.
Edited books
Journal articles
- Guest editorial: Women-in-leadership research and feminist futures: new agendas for feminist research and impact on gender equality. Gender in Management: An International Journal, 38(2), 153-165.
- Sustaining the critical in CHRD in higher education institutions: the impact of new public management and implications for HRD. Human Resource Development International, 22-22.
- In praise of holistic scholarship : a collective essay in memory of Mark Easterby-Smith. Management Learning.
- Where is the visible commitment to gender in the advertised content of UK management degree programmes?. Gender in Management.
- Discourses of practice : an examination of KEF and its effects on the AL/HRD community. Action Learning: Research and Practice.
- Advancing book clubs as non-formal learning to facilitate critical public pedagogy in organizations. Management Learning.
- Leadership legitimacy and the mobilization of capital(s): Disrupting politics and reproducing heteronormativity. Leadership.
- Impossible or just irrelevant? Unravelling the ‘authentic leadership’ paradox through the lens of emotional labour. Leadership. View this article in WRRO
- Gender hegemony and its impact on HRD research and practice. Human Resource Development International, 23(5), 469-472.
- Riding Populist Storms: Ways Forward for Critical Management Scholarship in Populist Times. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2020(1), 21921-21921.
- HRD professional education provision in the UK: past, present and future. Human Resource Development International. View this article in WRRO
- Fantasy spaces and emotional derailment: Reflections on failure in academic activism. Organization, 27(3), 506-514. View this article in WRRO
- The role of HRD in bridging the research-practice gap: the case of learning and development. Human Resource Development International, 23(2), 108-124. View this article in WRRO
- From chain to net : assessing interdisciplinary contributions to academic impact through narrative case studies. Studies in Higher Education, 1-16. View this article in WRRO
- Power, powerlessness, and journal ranking lists: The marginalization of fields of practice. Academy of Management Learning & Education. View this article in WRRO
- Succession in Chinese family-SMEs: a gendered analysis of successor learning and development. Human Resource Development International, 22(5), 504-525. View this article in WRRO
- The curious case of human resource development in family‐small‐to‐medium sized enterprises. Human Resource Development Quarterly, 30(3), 281-290. View this article in WRRO
- Economies of visibility as a moderator of feminism: ‘Never mind Brexit. Who won Legs‐it!’. Gender, Work & Organization, 26(8), 1156-1175. View this article in WRRO
- Guest editorial. Gender in Management: An International Journal, 34(3), 186-187. View this article in WRRO
- Pedagogies of power: Media artefacts as public pedagogy for women’s leadership development. Management Learning, 50(2), 171-188. View this article in WRRO
- Responding to editor and reviewer comments, and a tribute to Tracey Brown. Human Resource Development International, 21(4), 285-287.
- Additions to the editorial team and how to avoid a desk reject. Human Resource Development International, 21(1), 1-2.
- Constructing women’s leadership representation in the UK press during a time of financial crisis : gender capitals and dialectical tensions. Organization Studies, 39(1), 19-45. View this article in WRRO
- Human Resource Development International: a celebration of the journal’s first 20 years. Human Resource Development International, 20(5), 347-349.
- Articulating the entrepreneurship career : a study of German women entrepreneurs. International Small Business Journal, 35(5), 535-557. View this article in WRRO
- What are the (C)HRD implications of Brexit? A personal reflection?. Human Resource Development International, 20(1), 1-8.
- Developing a tradition of scholarship : the emergence and evolution of the AHRD-sponsored journals. Advances in Developing Human Resources, 18(4), 495-511. View this article in WRRO
- Women managers, leaders and the media gaze. Gender in Management: An International Journal, 31(5/6), 314-321.
- Modernism, Postmodernism, and corporate power: historicizing the architectural typology of the corporate campus. Management & Organizational History, 11(2), 123-146. View this article in WRRO
- HRDI: reflecting on our boundaries. Human Resource Development International, 19(1), 1-3.
- Editorial. Human Resource Development International, 18(3), 217-219.
- The Impact of Arts-Based Leadership Development on Leader Mind-Set. Advances in Developing Human Resources, 17(3), 391-407.
- Non-domination, contestation and freedom: The contribution of Philip Pettit to learning and democracy in organisations. Management Learning, 46(3), 317-336. View this article in WRRO
- Using Creative Techniques in Leadership Learning and Development. Advances in Developing Human Resources, 17(3), 279-288.
- The “Finger Puppets”. Journal of Management Education, 39(3), 433-438.
- Participative pedagogies, group work and the international classroom: an account of students' and tutors' experiences. Studies in Higher Education, 39(2), 307-320.
- Critically thinking. Human Resource Development International, 16(2), 133-134.
- Critical and alternative approaches to leadership learning and development. Management Learning, 44(1), 3-10.
- Women’s leadership learning: A reflexive review of representations and leadership teaching. Management Learning, 44(4), 373-394.
- MBA imaginaries: Projections of internationalization. Management Learning, 43(2), 157-181.
- Feminist Challenges and Futures: Women, Diversity and Management Learning. Management Learning, 40(4), 431-437.
- Learning Fusion: Introduction to the Dedicated Organizational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities Issue. Management Learning, 39(4), 371-374.
- Emancipating Assessment: Assessment Assumptions and Critical Alternatives in an Experience-based Programme. Management Learning, 39(3), 271-293.
- Learning from Leading Women's Experience: Towards a Sociological Understanding. Leadership, 4(2), 159-180.
- AHRD conference 2005: An opportunity to review our learning. Human Resource Development International, 8(4), 503-508.
- Representations of the Intellectual. Management Learning, 34(4), 411-427.
- Reconciling autonomy and community: the paradoxical role of HRD. Human Resource Development International, 6(4), 457-474.
- Manager-Educator Relations from a Critical Perspective. Journal of Management Education, 26(5), 512-526.
- Does HRD acknowledge humanbecomings? A view of the U.K. literature. Human Resource Development Quarterly, 11(2), 187-195.
- Human Resource Development.
- Angela Rayner (Member of Parliament) and the “Basic Instinct Ploy”: Intersectional misrecognition of women leaders' legitimacy, productive resistance and flexing (patriarchal) discourse. Gender, Work & Organization.
- Subtle activism: Heterotopic principles for unsettling contemporary academia from within. Organization, 135050842311677-135050842311677.
- EXPRESS: Gender(ed) performances: women’s impression management in stand-up comedy. Human Relations.
Chapters
- Learning Theory and Practice, Human Resource Development (pp. 139-165). Routledge
- Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Decolonization, Human Resource Development (pp. 86-110). Routledge
- The Future of HRD, Human Resource Development (pp. 342-360). Routledge
- Accountability in HRD, Human Resource Development (pp. 279-295). Routledge
- Constructing Organizations, Human Resource Development (pp. 257-278). Routledge
- Theory and Practice of Change, Human Resource Development (pp. 201-226). Routledge
- Evaluation in HRD, Human Resource Development (pp. 322-341). Routledge
- Designing and Implementing HRD Interventions, Human Resource Development (pp. 227-250). Routledge
- History of HRD and Theory, Human Resource Development (pp. 9-26). Routledge
- Metanarratives of HRD, Human Resource Development (pp. 27-54). Routledge
- Stakeholders and Power, Human Resource Development (pp. 61-85). Routledge
- Critical Interventions, Human Resource Development (pp. 301-321). Routledge
- Adult Learning Discourses and Practices in HRD, Human Resource Development (pp. 166-193). Routledge
- The Role of HRD in Work Relationships, Human Resource Development (pp. 111-134). Routledge
- Reflecting on Leadership, Leading, and Leaders, The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Human Resource Development (pp. 243-255). Springer International Publishing
- METHODOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS (pp. 231-231). Edward Elgar Publishing
- CRITICAL APPROACHES (pp. 181-181). Edward Elgar Publishing
- Micro-activism and Wellbeing: 1,000s of Snowflakes and the Potential Avalanche, The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Wellbeing (pp. 542-557). SAGE Publications Ltd
- PRACTICAL APPROACHES (pp. 56-56). Edward Elgar Publishing
- AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC METHODS (pp. 9-9). Edward Elgar Publishing
- Introduction to the Handbook of Research Methods on Gender and Management (pp. 1-8). Edward Elgar Publishing
- Chapter 24: Leadership development as a method of enquiry: insights from a post-structuralist perspective, Handbook of Research Methods on Human Resource Development (pp. 358-366). Edward Elgar Publishing
- Towards an understanding of corporate web identity, The Routledge Companion to Visual Organization (pp. 273-288).
- Critical thinking in human resource development: An introduction, Critical Thinking in Human Resource Development (pp. 1-7).
- Pedagogies of HRD: The socio-political implications, Critical Thinking in Human Resource Development (pp. 189-201).
- Leadership development as a method of enquiry: insights from a post-structuralist perspective (pp. 358-366). Edward Elgar Publishing
- HRD in a Complex World In Lee M (Ed.) Routledge
- Research group
- Grants
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- 2020-2022: BA/Leverhulme. 'Returners' Programmes: a solution to motherhood penalty and skills' shortage?. '£9,600.00. PI: Dr Cecile Guillaume, University of Roehampton
- 2016: Society for the Advancement of Management Studies (SAMS). 'Developing Women’s Leadership: Theory and Practice'. £2,500.00
- 2016-2017: British Academy of Management. ' Gender and Diversity in Management Education'. £33,586.00. PI: Dr Linda Perriton, University of Stirling.
- 2014-2017. ESRC Seminar Series. ' Challenging Gendered Mis(s)representations of women professionals and leaders'. £30,000.00
- 2013. Society for the Advancement of Management Studies (SAMS). 'Reclaiming Impact'. £5,000.00
- Teaching interests
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Carole's teaching is closely related to her early research interests in learning and critical management education. She views her role as an educator as one that supports, facilitates, and challenges learners in making explicit the knowledge that may hitherto be implicit. Her approach to learning design is rooted in her early higher education teaching experience when she worked with experienced practitioners, from a variety of sectors, on a part-time Masters degree underpinned by a philosophy of collaborative learning. Carole has taught undergraduate modules on leadership, organisational behaviour, and management. At postgraduate level she has taught specialist modules focusing on Human Research Development, Leadership and Change, and qualitative methodologies.
- Professional activities and memberships
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I am an Academic Fellow, CIPD, and Fellow of the HEA. I am a member of several scholarly associations including: the British Academy of Management, Academy of Management, EGOS, an the Academy of HRD.
- PhD supervision
I welcome proposals using qualitative research in the following areas: Management and Leadership Learning; Gender and Leadership; Critical Management Studies; Critical Human Resource Development; Visual Approaches to Organisation Studies.