Biography

Adrian Marrison, PhD (Cambridge), is an organisational ethnographer who studies how people engage with their work, their occupations, and the organisations that shape them – particularly when risk, uncertainty, and danger are part of everyday life. As Assistant Professor of Organisation & Work at Warwick Business School and Co-Director of its Extreme Contexts Unit, he has spent extended periods embedded in challenging work environments, including a twelve-month, full-time ethnography inside a prison and (as analyst) collaborative research with citizen policing groups. His teaching draws on these themes to explore how people and organisations navigate change and complexity in everyday work. His research has been recognised in top academic journals such as The Academy of Management Journal and through honours including Finalist for the 2024 Grigor McClelland Doctoral Dissertation Award.