Alessia Contu
- Associate Professor of Organisation Studies
Laurea (Italy), MA (Lancaster), PhD (UMIST)
Biography
Taught at UMIST (Manchester). Then worked as a lecturer at Lancaster University Management School (LUMS). Visiting fellow at Massey University, New Zealand in 2005. AIM associate and visiting fellow at LUMS. Series editor of the Critical Management Study Series, Palgrave Macmillan, and board member of the International Journal of Zizek Studies.
Research interests
politics and ethics of working; learning and organising; identity, resistance and power at work; goodness; discourse theory and philosophy.
Selected research projects
- Resubmission: Warwick Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre Phase II: EPSRC, April 2008 - September 2011.
Only selected externally-funded projects are listed here.
Teaching activity this year
Doctoral
- WB7100 Philosophy in Social Sciences: FTRES module leader
Masters Portfolio
- IB97B0 Ethics & Values in Organizations module leader
Undergraduate
- IB1180 Management, Organisation and Society I
- IB1190 Management, Organisation and Society II module leader
- IB3810 Critical Issues in Management
- IB3E60 Ethical Issues & Social Responsibility in Contemp. module leader
Warwick MBA
- IB7000 Organisational Behaviour: MMBA
- IB802G Organisational Behaviour module leader
- IB9390 Management of Change
- IB9S30 Management of Change: MMBA
Publications
Journal articles
- Decaf Resistance: Misbehaviour, Desire and Cynicism in Liberal Workplaces. Management Communication Quarterly 21 (2008) (Published): 264-379.
- Studying Practice: Situating Talking About Machine. Organization Studies 27 (2006): 1769-1782.
- You Spin Me Round: The Critical Realist Turn in Management and Organization Studies. Journal Of Management Studies 42 (2005): 1622-1645.
- A Political Answer to Questions of Struggles. Ephemera 2 (2002): 160-174.
Book chapters
- Groups and Teams at Work. Introducing Organizational Behaviour and Management. Ed. David Knights and Hugh Willmott. Thomson Learning, 2007.
