Deborah Brewis

I work principally in two areas Critical Diversity Studies and Digital Labour.

I am interested in the ways that organisational discourses and practices ‘organise difference’ – Which differences between people do we understand as being important? What meanings do we attach to forms of difference? How do we seek to ‘manage’ difference? What are the material consequences of these processes? I extend these questions into a variety of empirical settings, including organisational ‘diversity’ practices and digital work.

Research interests:

-           Critical analysis of inclusion, diversity and equality as organising concepts and practices

-           Gender and race in working life

-           Intersectional research

-           Digital labour

-           Digital inclusion and exclusion

-           Management/government of subjectivities at work

-           Writing differently in research

-           Affect

-           Solidarity communities

-           Practices and strategies of anti-racism

I am also part of the Writing Differently collective, and active in engaging with artistic practices as a part of learning; and continually seek to explore how they can enrich our writing, research, and teaching.

Please see my website for details of my current projects: https://organisingdifference.wordpress.com/

I am Social Media Editor for the journal Management Learning, and developed an innovative new video series for them called 'Management Learning Meets...', which promotes dialogue and reflection around issues of organisational learning and the process of doing research and publishing within Management and Organisation Studies.

I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and within the School of Management I am also Senior Tutor.

I am currently supervising One PhD student internally: Katty Abdelmalek; and two PhD students externally: Ruth Abrams (Kingston University) and Pauline Obiora (Kingston University).

I welcome enquiries from prospective doctoral students who are interested in pursuing research related to any of my areas of interest outlined above.