Thomas Roulet
@thomroulet
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Professor & Organisational sociologist @Cambridge_Uni | Co-founder @KingsELab | @Forbes Column | Author #ThePowerOfBeingDivisive
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Experimentation in Wicked Situations: How activists construct pragmatic action frames - Out this month in
@osofficer
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I have enjoyed watching Clarkson's farm
@JeremyClarkson
on
@primevideouk
. Obviously it is very romanticised, but an interesting peak into the exceptional entrepreneurial and managerial qualities needed by farmers.
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✅Yes,
@Cambridge_Uni
has promoted me through two levels, and allowed me to establish my own professorial chair from the 1st of October 2023. 🤓
🙂It might just be an administrative error, but for now I will just enjoy!
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First day as the new Professor in Organisational Sociology and Leadership at
@Cambridge_Uni
@CambridgeJBS
🤟
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🙏I am very honored to be joining the editorial board of
@OrganizationSci
- A journal I very much enjoy reading and that has inspired a lot of my work.🤗
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It’s teaching season. My high tech studio for online teaching is back on. Note the Harry Potter board game - I knew this would have multiple purpose.
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My book "The Power of Being
#Divisive
: Understanding Negative Social Evaluations" published by
@stanfordpress
is now shipping. Discover why and how some negative evaluations (
#stigma
#scandals
#controversy
) of organisations & individuals can be beneficial.
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My copies of
#thePowerOfBeingDivisive
arrived today. I know what friends and family will get for Christmas 😂👍
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😊Very excited to have been awarded a Mid-Career Fellowship from the
@BritishAcademy_
starting 01/11/23
🧐I will use this funding for a project about organizing in the French resistance, looking at the interaction of temporality and spatiality
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After 3 years happily spent at
@KingsCollegeLon
@kingsbschool
I will be joining
@Cambridge_Uni
in the Summer as a Senior Lecturer in Organization Theory. I will miss colleagues at King's but also very excited about joining the OT group in
@CambridgeJBS
& looking forward to it :)
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Very nice to review the final proofs of this paper on Lefebvre and institutional work forthcoming in AMJ
@VictoriaLRodner
@dirkvl
@FinolaK
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Happy to have joined the editorial board of
@Journal_of_Mgmt
- the new editor has a message to present the journal and the new editorial team
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Excited to have made it to the
@poetsandquants
list of best 40 under 40 business school professors and in such good company with many co authors and friends. Thanks to all the
#mbastudents
@CambridgeMBA
who nominated me.
#businessschool
#mba
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🚨Our latest piece in AMJ (just in time for
#AOM2022
!) looks at the contestation of the early Whisky distilling industry in Scotland by religious and political movements.🥃🥃 (1/6)
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Delighted to be shortlisted for the 2019
@FT
@McKinsey
#BrackenBower
prize "The Power of Being Divisive" was shortlisted as a proposal in 2015 and is forthcoming (as a full book :) in 2020 with
@stanfordpress
Congratulations to the shortlisted authors for the
@FT
@McKinsey
Bracken Bower Prize 2019
#BrackenBower
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I have started writing a column for
@Forbes
.
This first article is on the contagious effects of
#burnouts
.
#management
#mentalhealth
#leadership
#workingfromhome
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Very happy to have received from the research methods division
@AOMConnect
the 2017 Best paper award published in Org research methods w Mike Gill
@OxfordSBS
,
@stengerseb
@isg_lab
and David Gill.
#aom2018
pic w the chief editor👌😁no plaques though, they are being mailed 😂
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Very honored to see that my recent book
#ThePowerOfBeingDivisive
published by
@StanfordPress
in 2020, was named runner up for the George R. Terry Book Award of the
@AOMConnect
#AOM2021
(thread)
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Good to be back in the classroom! We have spent the last couple of weeks welcoming the new intake of
@CambridgeMBA
#CambridgeMBA
at
@CambridgeJBS
. This academic year at
@Cambridge_Uni
will be for sure like no other, but we are ready. Let's roll with it!
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Lefebvre, space and institutional work: How the Venezuela's art sector survived the Bolivarian revolution
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Immortalised on Instagram - my fashion statement in the classroom 😂. Got one year older in real life this week. But trying to grow younger in some other aspects 😂 ps: the panda headband was a great gift from one of my previous student
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Come look at my forthcoming book "The Power of Being
#Divisive
: Understanding Negative Social Evaluations" on the virtual exhibit of
@stanfordpress
at
#AOM2020
@AOMConnect
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Looking forward to working with our
@cambridgejbs
@cambridgemba
community, alumni, students and staff
Dr Thomas Roulet appointed Deputy Director Cambridge MBA, working alongside MBA Director Michael Kitson.
#ThomasRoulet
University Senior Lecturer in Organisational Theory +
#Girton
Fellow
#CJBS
#CambridgeMBA
#CambridgeUniversity
@thomroulet
@CambridgeJBS
@MichaelKitson
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Very honoured to see our qualitative study on the gamification and early institutionalisation of zero waste practices with O Cristofini
@iaeparis
@ChaireEppp
to be named runner up for two
@AOM_OMT
awards
#AOM2020
thank you!
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📢 New paper in
@OrganizationSci
with Y Shymko (
@audencia
) & BM Pimentel (
@forward_college
) on
#philanthropy
in the cultural sector in
#Russia
, building up on Bourdieu's concept of symbolic capital.
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Our paper on covert research, participant observation and ambiguous consent will be awarded best paper in Organizational research methods for 2017 by the Research Methods division of
@AOMConnect
at
#AOM2018
cc
@SAGE_Methods
Read it here
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In this recent piece in
@OrgTheoryJrnl
with
@rasmuspichler
, we theorize blame games - explaining how in the aftermath of misconduct, organizations and their members avoid responsibility
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Got my second jab at the science museum. 🍾Very few other takers. 😞There are reason to worry about the dangerous experiment of relaxing all rules 🧐- social distancing seems to be forgotten by many and in many places 😱
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Today I celebrate my 10 years back in good ol' UK when I dropped my little luggage
@OxfordSBS
@PembrokeOxford
🤓
Since then I got married to a Brit, became a British citizen of her Majesty the Queen, and moved to the other place
@Cambridge_Uni
🤣
Grateful for the journey😊
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I have been proud to serve as co-editor in chief
@Management_Aims
, the first
#openaccess
journal in the field of management, organization theory and strategy, over the last three years. (1/7)
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‘We're All Born Naked and the Rest Is Drag’: Spectacularization of Core Stigma in RuPaul’s Drag Race Very happy I got the chance to edit this manuscript for our forthcoming SI on stigma - well done for a great paper
@mariocampana
K Duff
@MariaRitaMiche3
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Excited to be starting my stint as co-editor of JMS Says - the essay section of
@JMS_Journal
. Do send us your essay proposals and ideas! Reminder of what we are looking for:
We would like to welcome Thomas Roulet and Mark Healey as JMS Says Editors. Thomas and Mark join current JMS Says editor Trish Reay. We wish them luck in their new role.
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The Imposter Syndrome in
#Management
Academia, or the Mis‐Representation of Self in Academic Life our essay in print in
@JMS_Journal
with
@J_Bothello
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Brexit trade deal with New Zealand will have 'close to zero' benefit to UK economy, government admits the U.K. discovers the mechanics of international trade
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Einstein's first and only experience with the academic review process
http://t.co/ZdKVBqwATb
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Very excited to hear that our new pro Vice Chancellor for university community and engagement is nobody else than our very own
@KamalMunir5
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I can read a lot of clickbait articles on
#Cambridge
university going full online until 2021. The official statement only mentions large scale lectures. Most of the key teaching at
@Cambridge_Uni
takes place in smaller groups - which can be maintained despite social distancing.
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Our latest
@OrganizationSci
on the philanthropic attractiveness of cultural organisations (i.e. which ones get donations and why) using
#Bourdieu
’s concept of symbolic capital
fleshing out political orientation as a crucial marker in
#Poutine
's
#Russia
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Some of the forgotten heroes of this
#coronavirus
crisis are the employees of grocery stores
@waitrose
@Tesco
@sainsburys
@coopuk
- without them, not sure how we would feed ourselves. And they can't really work from home!
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My school "roped me into" attending the
@MBAT
@HECParis
to support
@CambridgeMBA
students... and I ended up pulling a rope in the mud with other
#MBA
faculty🤣
I did not win (
@CambridgeJBS
finished 3rd though! Well done guys!) but I am sure this was great for my skin🤔
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Why
#Degrowth
Shouldn’t Scare Businesses - Our take on strategies for de-growth and why degrowth can be positive with
@J_Bothello
The idea did not make it for the
#brackenbower
but it made it into
@HarvardBiz
cc
@andrewtghill
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Very cool to receive a honorable mention for my sociology teaching and supervision
@GirtonCollege
from the
@Cambridge_Uni
#sociology
department A reminder that
@CambridgeJBS
faculty members often have interdisciplinary involvement within the broader uni!
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Based on our discussion at the
@AOM_OMT
#AOM2020
doctoral consortium on Friday, a few pointers on what to include in a
#teaching
statement for those on the job market
@AOMConnect
#academia
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An amazing and inspired crowd last night for the first Caste, Business and Society conference
@dipsikhagm
@manojkdora
@Vivek_Soundar
@HariBapuji
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Genuine student feedback on our OB&Leadership course:
"Thomas Roulet does not swear enough. He said there would be lots of swearing but I only heard one 'F' bomb. Disappointing"
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Interested in microfoundations of institutional theory? Confused about the bathtub metaphor and multilevel theorization? Some clarification in our recent Academy of Management Review dialogue piece
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My new book
#ThePowerOfBeingDivisive
, published by
@stanfordpress
is officially out. Here is a summary on the
@CambridgeJBS
website:
#controversy
#scandal
#stigma
#mba
#evaluation
#strategy
#conspiracytheories
#organization
#trolling
#research
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Excited to have signed with
@stanfordpress
to develop my book "The Power of Being Divisive" on negative social evaluations, shortlisted in 2015 for the
@McKinsey
@FT
bracken bower award.
We are hopeful for a publication in 2020.
poke
@WordNerdMargo
for her help as well!
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I have managed to include a gif of baby yoda in the slides for my class today and still make sense. That's a win
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Why management academics matter: A few good reasons to regain confidence in what we do. A summary of our essay in
@JMS_Journal
with
@JoelBothello
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🧐Why should
#MBA
applicants and students care about the academic research we conduct in
#businessschools
? My latest in
@Forbes
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Nice to figure on the list of MBA Professors To Look Out For in 2020 by
@businessbecause
@cambridgemba
@cambridgeJBS
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What is the Eisenhardt Method, really? A very interesting essay on the multi-case method
@AnnLangleyHEC
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Good to start
#egos2023
with a talk on how to most effectively procrastinate on social media 😆
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Hashtag
#filthy
😆
Dr
@Thomroulet
comments on how dirty offices reflect employees getting too comfortable at work, via
@FinancialTimes
.
#authentic
#filthy
#workplace
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#Resilience
in the wake of the
#coronavirus
- Thanks to an amazing IT and online learning team
@CambridgeJBS
, we are already delivering all our classes online - trying to replicate the classroom experience as much as we can
@Cambridge_Uni
Day 3 of the
#MStinSocialInnovation
online residential.
Dr
@thomasroulet
is a University Senior Lecturer in Organisation Theory and the Deputy Director of the
#MBAProgramme
at
@CambridgeJBS
. Today, he's ‘motivating & leading others in the context of social innovation’.
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"Supporting students and giving them confidence to achieve their goals are parts of being an academic" Very proud that this approach to our social role as academic was recognized by
@KingsCollegeLon
AWARD: Congratulations to Dr Thomas Roulet
@thomroulet
and Professor Brian Bell who will pick up their prestigious Teaching Excellence Awards from
@kingsacademykcl
tonight following nominations by
@kingsbschool
students! Full news story on our website:
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“Don’t wait for your papers to be published to discuss your research in the media or it will be too late” kudos to
@TimaBansal
for reminding us that we have to find our voice as
#management
scholars
#AOM2019
@AOM_OMT
@AOMConnect
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Today we announce our annual
#Thinkers50Radar
List, feat. thinkers whose work will shape the future of how organisations are managed and led.
#Sustainability
&
#AI
are key themes for 2024, as is making workplaces wholly
#inclusive
.
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This week I’m teaching the
@CambridgeMBA
@CambridgeJBS
in the beautiful theatre of
@downingcollege
- it reminds me of théâtre de guignol from my home town Lyon - will try to be as funny as the puppets 😂
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Launch of the first Caste, Business, Society by
@manojkdora
&
@HariBapuji
taking place between
@AngliaRuskin
@CambridgeJBS
and
@Kings_College
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A change from teaching leadership and organisation theory - today qualitative methods is on the programme 👌😊🤩🤓🧐
@CambridgeJBS
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Absolutely thrilled to see our amazing colleague
@StellaPachidi
@CambridgeJBS
in the 40 under 40 list of Poets&Quants Honored to work by your side Stella! So well deserved! Bravo💪
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Lovely surprise through the post this morning! (Also good excuse for a selfie) A
@HECParis
polo! I can assure you not a day passes by without me thinking about the intellectual training I received in Jouy🤩 thank you for the kind thoughts
@HECParisPhD
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the
#souffl
é metaphor explained: our academic life is not a pie with one slice for research, one for engagement, one for teaching. It's a soufflé in which you put all those ingredients in and you wait for them to grow :)
#thinklist
@BathCBOS
@ethicscrane
@Sarah_CSR
Bon appétit!
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Delighted to see
@CambridgeJBS
leading the pack as best research department in the U.K. in the REF 2021 for Business and management studies via
@timeshighered
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Idiotic. Damaging even more one of the most successful industry in the U.K. So much for this anti immigration non sense
From today, the majority of foreign university students cannot bring family members to the UK.
In 2024, we’re already delivering for the British people.
12K
2K
7K
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The
#AstraZeneca
#vaccine
is caught in a negative
#reputation
spiral. I unpack the mechanisms and potential consequences of this reputation war - fed by the choices and declarations of EU countries on
@ForbesEurope
#Covid
#communication
#leadership
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Good to be back in the classroom after being stuck at home with covid for weeks!👌
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This year only three of the students asked me what programme I was studying 😆 I am definitely getting older !!
Had a great time at our matriculation dinner
@Kings_College
this evening, where we welcomed the largest cohort of
@CambridgeJBS
students
@Kings_College
ever!
Having for the first time admitted MSt
#Entrepreneurship
students in 2019 and Executive
#MBA
students in 2021 we are
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Our forthcoming
@HarvardBiz
piece on how to support your colleagues’
#mentalhealth
health using some basic principles used in cognitive behavioural therapy
Second paper preceding our forthcoming book on
#wellbeingintelligence
next year
#psychology
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To combat conspiracy theories teach critical thinking – and community values - Insights based on my recent book
#thePowerofbeingdivisive
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#élection day in France. 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻 crossing fingers we push back against all extreme, and for an inclusive and progressive French society 👌
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After my zoom setting at home with the ironing board, the zoom setting in the office. Even more high tech !
And yes my office is a mess
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The three musketeers working on a paper revision - in the new office of professor
@RamitDebnath
. Only missing Richelieu aka
@ronitabardhan
cc
@KamiarMohaddes
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🐕🦺I had a fantastic new student in my
#leadership
class in the
@CambridgeMBA
🤩 he did sleep through most of the class but I am sure he had done the pre readings 🤪
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Glad to see
#ThePowerOfBeingDivisive
, my 2020
@stanfordpress
book to be covered in
@TheEconomist
🧐- in particular the part where I explain why employees sometimes stick to vilified companies😈
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🇫🇷🇬🇧The good thing with having dual French British citizenship is that tonight I feel like “we” win either way 😂
#WorldCup
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It’s Christmas! Received archives from the
French ministry of defense for my
@BritishAcademy_
project on resistance
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#Remotework
will be the norm in
#2021
. But we will miss the
#office
more than ever - to foster innovation in the post-
#Covid
era, and for social support at
#work
. And sorry but the
#hybridoffice
is unlikely to be the solution.
My latest for
@forbes
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🥳Glad to be presenting the so important ONE SIM outreach awards for authors who engaged with media and knowledge translation for their papers
@AOM_SIM
#AOM2023
Congrats Suntae Kim and Anna Kim - photo courtesy of
@Guemuesay
who wisely sat in the back 😆
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Advocating for open access journals and promoting the
@Management_Aims
model today
@UMassBoston
. No publication fee, no access fee, entirely supported by a professional association
@strategieaims
and
@cnrs
@thomroulet
opens our ‘Meet the editors’ session presenting
@Management_Aims
and asking the key question « Why should all academic journals be fully open access? »
@UMass
&
@EMNormandie
CSR conférence
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Lecturer and student relationships matter even more online than on campus | Kate Roll and Marc Ventresca such an important piece! 🙏🙏🙏🙏Thank you Kate and
@marcventresca
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Today would have seen students returning to the College for the start of Easter Term but most students will be remaining and working from their homes. But
@GirtonCollege
stays with us even when we are away from it-Here a lithograph reminding me that
#weAreGirton
even from home 👌
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Standing on the Shoulders of Goffman: Advancing a Relational Research Agenda on
#Stigma
Our latest article with Ana Aranda,
@KDWPatterson
, Wes Helms &
@BryantinParis
in
@BASeditors
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Handling some of my last remaining papers as the former co-chief editor of
@Management_Aims
- still to this day the only management outlet that is free to access and free to publish - and very proud once again of the hard work we put in to accompany authors towards publication.
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