Professor Stefanie Reissner
| Biography | Stefanie Reissner is Professor of Organization Studies at Durham University Business School. She has a PhD from Durham University and extensive experience in research, education and leadership in higher education over a 20-year career. Stefanie is an elected Council member at the British Academy of Management (BAM), working on the Research & Publications Sub-Committee for a second term and providing strategic leadership for BAM’s research grant portfolio as BAM Chair of Research Grants. She has been appointed as a member of the ESRC’s Peer Review College and a Fellow of BAM’s Peer Review College, sits on the editorial board of the International Journal of Management Reviews and regularly reviews for major scholarly management and organizational journals. Stefanie specializes in qualitative research, particularly constructionist and interpretivist methodologies involving interviewing, narrative and reflexivity. She has researched identity, narrative, storytelling and sensemaking in different contexts such as organizational change, employee engagement and flexible working, having received funding by ESRC, British Academy, British Academy of Management, and Council for International Veterinary Medical Education. Stefanie’s research has been published in major management and organization journals, including Work, Employment & Society; Public Administration; Journal of Business Ethics; European Management Review; International Journal of Human Resource Management; Journal of Organizational Change Management; Culture & Organization; and Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management. She has authored two research monographs and co-edited the Handbook of Research Methods for Studying Identity In and Around Organizations (2023). Moreover, Stefanie is a committed educator and holds Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy in the UK. She is co-editor and co-author of the best-selling textbook Developing Skills for Business Leadership, now in its third edition (2023). Stefanie has designed, delivered and led modules at undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral levels with a focus on research methods and acted as external examiner on doctoral training programmes at the University of Huddersfield and the University of Birmingham. She has been invited to facilitate doctoral training workshops on behalf of the Northern Advanced Research Training Initiative (NARTI) and to give keynote speeches at doctoral symposia and summer schools in the UK and internationally. |
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| Research Interests | Professional identity, organizational identity, narrative, storytelling, flexible and remote working, boundary management, qualitative research methodology, qualitative interviewing, researcher reflexivity |
| Teaching and Learning | Qualitative research methods, research philosophy, skills development |
| PhD Supervision Availability | Yes |
| PhD Topics | I welcome applications from students seeking to study for a doctorate in the areas of flexible / remote / hybrid, working and identity (professional or organizational) who are seeking to use qualitative methods. |