Juliette Summers

Biography

Before joining the School of Management in August 2014 as a Lecturer in Management I worked at the Stirling Management School, Stirling University. I received my PhD in Sociology from the University of Warwick, where my PhD thesis explored how workers acquire and lose work-related identities in employee owned organisations. Since then I have focused on investigating how students acquire anticipatory professional identities, how female work identity is represented in the media, and how government agencies represent their own and communities' subject positions. Recent projects look at how communities respond to participatory exercises. I also hold an MA in Industrial Development from the University of East Anglia, and a BA (Hons) in Geography from King's College London. My interest in employee and community participation extends beyond the university; currently I am a Community Councillor and director of a community trust.

Research Interest

My research centres on the intersection of work, identity and democracy, and in particular on employee ownership and participation, worker and community identity development, and political consultation and participation strategies.