Dr David Hollis

David joined Sheffield University Management School in February 2022 as a Lecturer in Organization Studies. Prior to this, he worked at Nottingham Business School for four years in lecturing roles and at the University of Nottingham for two years as a Research Associate. Before entering academia, he worked in analyst positions for BBC Sport and Radio 5 Live.

David's research interests broadly revolve around rethinking classic notions of organization and management theorizing (OMT), like power, authority and leadership, from communication as constitution of organization, performativity and/or relationality perspectives. His recent publications explore how: faces play powerful roles in daily organizing; seemingly mundane workplace routines transform employees; and technologically mediated 'leadership' (dis)empowers workers. His research is largely ethnographic in nature and involves studying organizational groups that are often under researched in OMT, such as make-up artists.