Alessia Contu
- Associate Professor of Organisation Studies
Laurea (Italy), MA (Lancaster), PhD (UMIST)
Room E2.07 (Social Studies Building)
Warwick Business School
The University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL
United Kingdom
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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
Masters Portfolio
- IB96U0 Foundation in Management & Organizational Analysis module leader
- IB96Z0 Researching Organizations
- IB97B0 Ethics & Values in Organizations module leader
Undergraduate
- IB1230 Understanding Organisational Behaviour module leader
Warwick MBA
- IB7000 Organisational Behaviour
- IB8020 Organisational Behaviour module leader
- IB802G Organisational Behaviour module leader
- IB802Z Organisational Behaviour module leader
Publications
Journal articles
- Decaf resistance: misbehaviour, desire and cynicism in liberal workplaces. Management Communication Quarterly 21 (2008) (Published): 364-379.
- 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.