Dr Pauline Leonard

MA(Ed), PhD

School of Social Sciences
University of Southampton
Southampton
SO17 1BJ

Position: Reader in Sociology
Telephone: (023) 8059 4745
Email: Pauline.Leonard@soton.ac.uk

Biography

Pauline Leonard studied sociology at the University of Reading and qualified as a teacher at the Institute of Education, University of London. She gained a Masters Degree in Education from the University of Southampton and then completed her PhD, also at the University of Southampton. She has taught at further and higher education level in both the UK and Hong Kong.

Research interests

Pauline is a founding member of the Work Futures Research Centre at the University of Southampton. Her research interests are in work and organization, primarily in the areas of organizational change, gender, race and identity and skilled labour migration. Her research has included projects on gender and professional change in the NHS and in Tertiary Education, skilled migration and the social and economic benefits of EU in-migration. She has also acted as a consultant for the NHS and the King’s Fund. She is author of numerous publications including Gender,Power and Organisations (with Susan Halford)(2001) and Negotiating Gendered Identities at Work: Place, Space and Time (with Susan Halford) (2006).

Her most recent projects have explored the impact of office space design and issues of sustainability on work performance, work practice, professional identities and motivation; and the roles of race and gender in post-colonial organizations (published as ‘Expatriate Identities in Postcolonial Organizations’ Ashgate June 2010). This research is to be further developed in a new project funded by the British Academy (in collaboration with with Daniel Conway Dept of Politics, History and International Relations, University of Loughborough) entitled 'The British in South Africa: Continuity or Change'. This research will involve interviewing British-born expatriates in South Africa in 2011. Pauline is interested in new methodological approaches to ethnographic research and she draws on post-structural and post-colonial approaches in her analysis. She is also a member of the Third Sector Research Centre and is due to commence a project with Susan Halford on Voluntary Sector organizations in September 2010.

Postgraduate Students

Pauline is currently supervising the following research students Maryam Alriyamy Globalisation, transnationalism and health care workers in Oman; Mike Bracher Transitions to higher education for students with autism; Margarida Vieira Cheung New identities in Macau Ian Roberts Homosexuality, identity and change;

Teaching activities

She currently teaches undergraduate units on The Sociology of Everyday Life and Education and Society and postgraduate units on Philosophy and Methods in Social Science and Designing a Research Project. She is the Postgraduate Research Convenor for Sociology and Social Policy and Applied Social Sciences.

Work in progress

Pauline is currently exploring the relationships between organizations and their members with issues of place and space, particularly with respect to environment change

Roles

Postgraduate Research Convenor

Selected publications

Books
	Pauline Leonard 2010 Expatriate Identities in Postcolonial Organizations: Working Whiteness. Aldershot: Ashgate., (ISBN: 9780754673651 (hbk))
	Susan Halford and Pauline Leonard 2006 Negotiating Gendered Identities at Work: Place, Space and Time. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
	Susan Halford, Lorelei Cooke and Pauline Leonard 2003 Racism in the medical profession: the experience of UK graduates. British Medical Association; Health Policy and Economic Research Unit.
	Susan Halford & Pauline Leonard 2001 Gender, Power and Organisations. Macmillan. On-line abstract, (ISBN: 0 333 61843 2)

Edited books and volumes
	Jon Billsberry,Julie Charlesworth and Pauline Leonard (eds) to be published Moving Images:Effective Teaching with Film and Television in Higher Education. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing .

Chapters in books
	Susan Halford & Pauline Leonard 1998 New identities? Professionalism, managerialism and the construction of self. In M. Exworthy and S. Halford (eds), Professionals and the New Managerialism in the Public Sector. Open University Press., (ISBN: 0 335 19819 8)

Articles in journals
	Pauline Leonard 2010 Organizing Whiteness: Gender, Nationality and Subjectivity in Post-colonial Hong Kong. Gender, Work and Organization, 17 (3)
	Pauline Leonard 2010 Work, identity and change? Post/colonial encounters in Hong Kong. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 36 (6)
	Pauline Leonard 2008 Migrating Identities: Gender, Whiteness and Britishness in Post-colonial Hong Kong. Gender, Place and Culture, Volume 15, Issue 2.
	Susan Halford and Pauline Leonard 2006 Place, Space and Time: The fragmentation of workplace subjectivities. Organizational Studies, 27(5), 657-676.
	Douglas Harper, Caroline Knowles and Pauline Leonard 2005 Visually Narrating Post-Colonial Lives. Visual Studies, 20
	Leonard P 2004 Westerns, Weddings and Web-weavers: Gender as Genre in Organizational Theory. Gender, Work and Organization, 11 (1), 74-94.
	Leonard, P. 2003 Playing Doctors and Nurses: Competing discourses of gender,power and identity in the British Health Service. Sociological Review, 51(2), 218-237.
	Susan Halford & Pauline Leonard 2003 Space and place in the construction and performance of gendered nursing identities. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 42 (2), 201-208., Re-printed in Dingwall, R. (Ed) Qualitative Health Research London: Sage.
	Pauline Leonard 2002 Organizing Gender? Looking at Metaphors as Frames of Meaning in Gender/Organizational Texts. Gender, Work and Organization, 9 (1), 60-80. On-line abstract
	Pauline Leonard 1998 Gendering Change? Management, Masculinity and the Dynamics of Incorporation. Gender and Education, volume 10 number 1 On-line abstract, (ISSN: 0954-0253)
	Pauline Leonard 1998 Women Behaving Badly? Restructuring Gender and Identity in British Broadcasting Organisations. Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 3, (ISSN: ISSN 1081-180X)

Reports
	Pauline Leonard 2010 Office Space:Performance, Productivity and Practice. Report to British Council of Offices
	D.McGhee and P.Leonard 2009 The Economic Benefits of A8 EU In-Migration to Southampton. Report to IDEA/Southampton City Council

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