Lauren McCarthy

It'll be a bit quiet from me whilst on maternity leave. Merry Christmas to all, and a peaceful New year <3

Rage stage! Great term. Funnily enough I start with the small stuff to make me feel like I can do it... but I should definitely try to 'eat the frog' and get to the main problems...

It's always so fascinating to hear other people's approaches. I have to draft the letter first, as a kind of working to-do list. That drives me to get on and edit, but... this time round trying to think straight whilst literally waiting for contractions is a bit ridiculous, haha!

What's the fastest you've ever turned around a (major) paper revision? And what's your strategy- letter first, then edits? Something else?

A powerpoint slide advertising the upcoming Qualitative Research Symposium. Slide reads: Callingf all qualitative researchers! Submissions are open for the Ninth Annual Qualitative Research Symposium (QRS). (In bold font): Transparency, Openness and Rigour in Qualitative Research. Held from Tuesday 28th- Wednesday 29th January 2025. School of Management, University of Bath. Submission deadline Friday 6th December.

⭐TWO DAYS LEFT TO SUBMIT! So many great abstracts submitted already, make sure you don't miss the chance to be part of the discussion on Transparency, Openness and Rigour with us in January! Deadline is 5PM tomorrow- 6th December! ⭐

Sharing some love from our ETHOS research centre's winterval celebrations last night.

Community is the *best* thing about academia, working alongside smart, passionate people at all stages of their career. I feel very lucky!

@drdanielfisher.bsky.social

And ashamedly, City remains in the quarter of UK unis *not* committed to disinvestment
peopleandplanet.org/fossil-free/...

@michaeletter.bsky.social may be useful to you

If it takes as long to get to a full professor as it took me to get to from associate prof to reader, then yes!

Thanks Josie! And welcome to bluesky, it's quite nice :)

Thank you! I need to think how to translate what a Reader is into the normal world. Baby professor? Professor-In-Waiting?

Hahaha. My mum said "You've been doing that since you were four".

I was promoted to Reader! A rather odd academic job title that is dying out... but recognises the strength of my research standing. Hurrah!

This reflects the challenges we see on the ground for women staff, as well as the broader political and cultural backslide on gender equity

Exciting news, organizational researchers! @orgstudies.bsky.social is now on Bluesky! And so are our co-editors-in-chief: @tzilber.bsky.social and @paoloquattrone.bsky.social

The Strand is looking different

Thanks Stefano!

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Today I attended a lecture online and listened, thought, and thought some more. Just for intellectual growth. Kind of what I thought academia would be like!

Yes I can see when it would be helpful in that case. I guess one meta-worry I have is that journals will come to *expect* ever-larger datasets as a result of growing AI use, without the reflection of what is lost, or unique, about qualitative, smaller studies.

At the risk of sounding like a luddite, AI involvement in most of qual research is worrying. We lose understanding, depth & human connection with the research at every stage. Urgh.

#AI #chatbots conducting #interviews is wrong on so many levels:
- Ethically (duty of care to our participants; huge questions about privacy & protection of data)
- Methodologically (distance between us & data means we risk losing the depth & rigour that qualitative methods provide)
And more...

Haven't seen one yet... you folks are my second family so would be so helpful!

Feel your pain here!

Environmental Management: Assistant/ Associate/ Full Professor - IÉSEG School of Management 3 international accreditations (AACSB, EQUIS, AMBA), 8000+ students, 208 permanent professors from 54 different countries, 335 partner universities in 74 countries, 2500+ partner companies. Join us!

We're hiring - come an join our department at @ieseg.bsky.social in Lille, France - recruitment.ieseg.fr/jobs/5120035...

Yay, nice to see you here!

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2/ Alessandro Giudici, Amit Nigam & Diana Trujillo- ‘The emergence of community-based actorhood amidst non-international armed conflicts: Evidence from Colombia’

DM to register to attend in person at Bayes Business School or via zoom!

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Our 'ETHOS: The Centre for Responsible Enterprise' seminar theme on 03/12/24 is: ‘Hope in The Dark: Building community & solutions in crisis contexts’.

Our two papers are:
1/ Khodr Badih- ‘From Void to Vital: How Informality Drives Industry Growth in the Absence of Formal Institutions’

and...

Re-posting to share with new followers the kind of research I've been working on in recent years:

#Misogyny in #Organizations.

Inspired by the fabulous philosophical work of @katemanne.bsky.social & applied to the world of work.

Article open acccess here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

This is really helpful. It's tough rebuilding networks & news sources on a new platform. Thank you to everyone curating starter packs & lists!