Professor Stefanie Reissner

Biography	Stefanie Reissner is Professor of Organization Studies at Durham University Business School and is currently serving as Director of Research for the 100-strong Department of Management and Marketing. She has a PhD from Durham University and extensive experience in research, education and leadership in higher education over a 20-year career. 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. Her research has been published in major management and organization journals, including British Journal of Management; Work, Employment & Society; Public Administration; Journal of Business Ethics; European Management Review; Studies in Higher Education; International Journal of Human Resource Management; Journal of Organizational Change Management; International Journal of Strategic Communication; Culture & Organization; and Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management. Stefanie has also authored two research monographs and co-edited the Handbook of Research Methods for Studying Identity In and Around Organizations (2023). 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 (published in 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. Stefanie has been actively involved in the British Academy of Management (BAM), the leading authority in the academic field of management in the UK and internationally. She served as an elected Council member at the British Academy of Management (BAM) for two terms (2018-2024), working on the Research & Publications Sub-Committee. Having provided strategic leadership for BAM’s research grant portfolio as inaugural BAM Chair of Research Grants between 2022 and 2024, Stefanie has been co-opted to BAM Council as a special advisor for 2025. 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. Outside of work, Stefanie serves as a volunteer and charity trustee.
Research Interests	Professional identity, organizational identity, narrative, storytelling, flexible and remote working, boundary management, qualitative research methodology, qualitative interviewing, researcher reflexivity
Teaching and Learning	Research philosophy, qualitative research methods, skills development, flexible working arrangements
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.