Adrian is an organisational theorist committed to advancing knowledge about the phenomenon of extreme contexts which, broadly speaking, are settings characterised by risks, emergencies and disruption. Adrian studies these contexts through ethnographic field methods and organisational theories to understand and explain how work is experienced, navigated and accomplished despite the risk and danger within them. His current research focuses on prison officers and paedophile hunters. He obtained his PhD at the University of Cambridge under a full ESRC scholarship, and was a finalist for the highly prestigious 2024 Grigor McClelland doctoral dissertation award.

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