Profile

BA, MPhil

Viva passed in April 2016

An early-career researcher of management and organisation, with a focus in critical diversity studies, at University of Warwick. An Associate Fellow at Warwick’s Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS), after having joined as an Early Career Fellow in April 2016. Deborah now holds the position of Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour at Kingston Business School - you can also contact her at this institution.

You can also find Deborah on Twitter and tweeting for Management Learning- the journal for critical, reflexive scholarship on organisation and learning.

Research interests

Deborah’s research interests span (in)equality, diversity and inclusion; critical management studies; gender and sexual identity; professional identities; feminisms; discourse; cultural representations of work and organising, and qualitative methods.

She is currently working on further developing doctoral research on diversity practitioners and on ongoing collaborative projects. Her plans for future work are in the areas of new media work, in particular the emergent occupation of ‘Social Talent’. Please click on the 'Research' tab above to find out more.

An active member of the scholarly community with experience working in a policy environment; teaching on management and organisation; and a track record of fostering links among scholars, between scholars and artists, and engaging the public in academic work. During her PhD, Deborah worked with the Welsh Government in a research capacity to produce a Government Social Research report on inequality in access to health services in Wales (gender, sexual identity, and gender reassignment) as part of an ESRC PhD Internship. She also organised a number of events for the university, such as a public engagement research poster exhibition as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences 2014 and a workshop funded by WBS Create engaging students in the idea of artists’ interventions in organisations.

She has taught in the areas of organisational behaviour, management, equality and diversity, and discourse analysis.

She has also conducted freelance research into student experiences of assessment and feedback as part of the TESTA project, and has experience in advising on CVs, applications for higher education, and student employability.

If you are interested in hearing more about Deborah's work or are someone working in the areas of equality, diversity and inclusion, and/or new media work please get in touch at the email in the right hand bar.

Further details of Deborah's experience can be found on her ePortfolio and LinkedIn pages, links in the 'Research' tab.

Deborah Brewis

deborah dot brewis dot 11(at)mail dot wbs dot ac dot uk