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Professor Pauline Leonard MA (Ed) PhD

Professor of Sociology, Director of the ESRC South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership

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Professor Pauline Leonard is Professor of Sociology at the University of Southampton and Director of the ESRC South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership (SCDTP), based across the Universities of Southampton, Brighton and Portsmouth. She is a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

My research interests are in work and organization, primarily in the areas of organizational change, gender, race and identity and skilled labour migration.

Pauline’s principle research interests are in diversity and work and she has published widely on gender and organisations, race and professional migration, age and careers.

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Research interests

I have a longstanding interest in gender, work and organization; in particular taking a poststructuralist approach to explore how women are positioned through organizational discourses and cultures. This work was published in articles and led to two books, including Gender, Power and Organizations (2001, with Susan Halford) and Negotiating Gendered Identities at Work: Place, Space and Time (2006, with Susan Halford).

I am also fascinated in how working lives and aspects of identity such as gender and race are transformed through processes of migration. I have conducted empirical research in China, Hong Kong and South Africa, looking at how whiteness in particular provides an important resource in the making of new lives and identities in postcolonial contexts. This work has been published in articles and books including Expatriate Identities in Postcolonial Organizations: Working Whiteness (2010) Migration, Space and Transnational Identities: The British in South Africa (2014, with Daniel Conway), Immigration to China in the Post-Reform Era: Destination China (forthcoming, with Angela Lehmann) and British Migration: Globalisation, Transnational Identities and Multiculturalism (forthcoming, with Katie Walsh).

My interest in the changing nature of working lives has also been pursued through research which has explored how changing working space can impact on senses of identity and well-being. Research funded by the British Council of Offices led to the report Making the Workplace Work and an article which won a BSA Climate Change Prize in 2014.

I have also conducted research on the third sector, as part of the ESRC’s Third Sector Research Centre, in a project entitled Third Sector Organizations: working lives and careers (with Susan Halford and Katie Bruce). More recently, I have turned to explore how age intersects with work and careers through two exciting new projects: one looking at the experiences of older apprentices in England (with Alison Fuller, Lorna Unwin and Gayna Davey) and one, conducted with colleagues at the ESRC’s LLAKES Research Centre, Institute of Education, University College, London, looking at young people’s entry routes into different regional labour markets in times of austerity (see http://www.llakes.ac.uk/research-project/63/project-13-getting-and-getting-youth-labour-market-entry-practices-under-employment-and

In 2008 I joined with colleagues Professor Susan Halford (Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology), Professor Catherine Pope (Health Sciences) and Professor Alison Fuller (Education) in establishing the cross-disciplinary Work Future Research Centre. This forms a hub to bring together the University's research and expertise on the changing nature of work and organization in the 21st century. Since this time we have organized many high-profile events and worked on projects for the ESRC, the Nuffield Foundation and the Norwegian Research Council, and conducted a scoping review on The New Dynamics of Work to inform ESRC strategy in this important area of research, and a major Policy Commission Gender Equality at Work: how far have we come & how far do we have to go? for the University's own Public Policy@Southampton initiative http://publicpolicy.southampton.ac.uk/.

Research project(s)

Does Apprenticeship Work for Adults? The experiences of adult apprentices in England.

Office space: Performance, Productivity and Practice

Organising the Third Sector

The British in South Africa: Continuity or Change?

Getting in and getting on in the youth labour market: entry process, under-employment and skill formation in regional economies

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Articles

Wilde, R. J., & Leonard, P. (2018). Youth enterprise: the role of gender and life stage in motivations, aspirations and measures of success. Journal of Education and Work, 31(2), 144-158. DOI: 10.1080/13639080.2017.1421311
Leonard, P., Fuller, A., & Unwin, L. (2017). A new start? Negotiations of age and chrononormativity by older apprentices in England. Ageing & Society.
Hoskins, B., Leonard, P., & Wilde, R. (2017). Negotiating uncertain economic times: youth employment strategies in England. British Educational Research Journal, 1-24. DOI: 10.1002/berj.3318
Leonard, P., Halford, S., & Bruce, K. (2016). ‘The new degree?’ Constructing internships in the third sector. Sociology, 50(2), 383-399. DOI: 10.1177/0038038515574456
Meer, N., Leonard, P., Taylor, S., O'Connor, H., & Offer, J. (2016). Bringing it 'home'? Sociological practice and the practice of sociology. Sociology, 50(5), 835-846. DOI: 10.1177/0038038516651238
Bell, E., & Leonard, P. (2016). Digital organizational storytelling on YouTube: constructing plausibility through network protocols of amateurism, affinity, and authenticity: constructing plausibility through network protocols of amateurism, affinity, and authenticity. Journal of Management Inquiry, 27(3), 1-13. DOI: 10.1177/1056492616660765
Halford, S., Leonard, P., & Bruce, K. (2015). Geographies of labour in the third sector: making hybrid workforces in place. Environment and Planning A, 47(11), 2355-2372. DOI: doi:10.1177/0308518X15599295
Scott, J., Millard, D., & Leonard, P. (2014). Citizen participation in news. Digital Journalism, 1-22. DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2014.952983
Leonard, P. (2013). Changing organisational space: green? or lean and mean? Sociology, 47(2), 333-349. DOI: 10.1177/0038038512441280
Leonard, P. (2013). Making whiteness work in South Africa: a translabour approach. Women's Studies International Forum, 36(Jan-Feb), 75-83. DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2012.08.003
Leonard, P. (2010). Old Colonial or New Cosmopolitan? Changing white identities in the Hong Kong police. Social Politics, 17(4), 507-535. DOI: 10.1093/sp/jxq018
Leonard, P. (2010). Organizing whiteness: gender, nationality and subjectivity in post-colonial Hong Kong. Gender, Work & Organization, 17(3), 340-358. DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0432.2008.00407.x
Leonard, P. (2010). Work, identity and change? Post/colonial encounters in Hong Kong. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 36(6), 1247-1263. DOI: 10.1080/13691831003687691
Leonard, P. (2008). Migrating identities: gender, whiteness and Britishness in post-colonial Hong Kong. Gender, Place & Culture, 15(1), 45-60. DOI: 10.1080/09663690701817519
Halford, S., & Leonard, P. (2006). Place, Space and Time: The fragmentation of workplace subjectivities. Organizational Studies, 27(5), 657-676. DOI: 10.1177/0170840605059453
Harper, D., Knowles, C., & Leonard, P. (2005). Visually narrating post?colonial lives: ghosts of war and empire. Visual Studies, 20(1), 4-15. DOI: 10.1080/14725860500064862
Leonard, P. (2004). Westerns, weddings and web-weavers: gender as genre in organizational theory. Gender, Work & Organization, 11(1), 74-94. DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0432.2004.00221.x
Leonard, P. (2003). 'Playing' doctors and nurses? Competing discourses of gender, power and identity in the British National Health Service. The Sociological Review, 51(2), 218-237. DOI: 10.1111/1467-954X.00416
Halford, S., & Leonard, P. (2003). Space and place in the construction and performance of gendered nursing identities. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 42(2), 201-208. DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.2003.02601.x
Leonard, P. (2002). Organizing gender? Looking at metaphors as frames of meaning in gender/organizational texts. Gender, Work & Organization, 9(1), 60-80. DOI: 10.1111/1468-0432.00149
Leonard, P. (1998). Gendering change? Management, masculinity and the dynamics of incorporation. Gender and Education, 10(1), 70-83. DOI: 10.1080/09540259821104
Leonard, P. (1997). Women behaving badly? Restructuring gender and identity in British broadcasting organisations. The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, 3(1), 9-25. DOI: 10.1177/1081180X98003001003

Books

Leonard, P. (Ed.), & Lehmann, A. (2019). Destination China: Immigration to China in the Post Reform Era. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan. DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-54433-9
Conway, D., & Leonard, P. (2014). Migration, space and transnational identities: the British in South Africa. (Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship). Basingstoke, GB: Palgrave Macmillan.
Billsberry, J., Charlesworth, J., & Leonard, P. (Eds.) (2012). Moving images: effective teaching with film and television in management. Charlotte, US: Information Age Publishing.
Leonard, P. (2010). Expatriate identities in postcolonial organizations: working whiteness. (Studies in Migration and Diaspora). Aldershot, GB: Ashgate.
Halford, S., & Leonard, P. (2006). Negotiating gendered identities at work: place, space and time. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Cooke, L., Halford, S., & Leonard, P. (2003). Racism in the medical profession: the experience of UK graduates. London, UK: British Medical Association, Health Policy and Economic Research Unit.
Halford, S., & Leonard, P. (2001). Gender, Power and Organisations. Palgrave Macmillan.

Book Chapters

Leonard, P. (2019). “Devils” or “Superstars”? Making English language teachers in China. In A. Lehmann, & P. Leonard (Eds.), Destination China: Immigration to China in the Post-Reform Era Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan.
Leonard, P., & Lehmann, A. (2019). International migrants in China: Civility, contradiction, and confusion. In A. Lehmann, & P. Leonard (Eds.), Destination China: Immigration to China in the Post-Reform era Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan.
Leonard, P. (2013). Landscaping privilege: being British in South Africa. In F. W. Twine, & B. Gardener (Eds.), Geographies of Privilege (pp. 97-121). London, GB: Routledge.
Leonard, P. (2013). Social media and organizations. In E. Bell, S. Warren, & J. E. Schroeder (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Visual Organization (Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting). Abingdon, GB: Routledge.
Billsberry, J., Leonard, P., & Charlesworth, J. (2012). Die another day: teaching with film and television in the management classroom. In J. Billsberry, & P. Leonard (Eds.), Moving Images: Effective Teaching with Film and Television in Management Charlotte, US: Information Age Publishing.
Leonard, P. (2012). Using feature films as critical documentary in management education. In J. Billsberry, J. Charlesworth, & P. Leonard (Eds.), Moving Images: Effective Teaching with Film and Television in Management Charlotte, US: Information Age Publishing.
Leonard, P. (2012). Work, identity and change? Post/colonial encounters in Hong Kong. In A-M. Fechter, & K. Walsh (Eds.), The New Expatriates: Postcolonial Approaches to Mobile Professionals London, GB: Routledge.
Halford, S., & Leonard, P. (1998). New identities? Professionalism, managerialism and the construction of self. In M. Exworthy, & S. Halford (Eds.), Professionals and the New Managerialism in the Public Sector (pp. 102-121). Buckingham, UK: Open University.

Conferences

Rimington, E., Weal, M., & Leonard, P. (2016). A theoretical framework for online game society: the case of League of Legends. 355-357. Poster session presented at WebSci '16 Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Web Science, Germany.DOI: 10.1145/2908131.2908194
Scott, J., Millard, D., & Leonard, P. (2016). Are open news systems credible? An investigation into perceptions of participatory and citizen news. 263-270. Paper presented at 12th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, Italy.DOI: 10.5220/0005858702630270
Scott, J., Millard, D., & Leonard, P. (2015). Identifying similar opinions in news comments using a community detection algorithm. Paper presented at 7th International Conference on Social Informatics, China.DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-27433-1_7
Halford, S., Leonard, P., & Bruce, K. (2012). Geographies of labour in the third sector: making hybrid workforces in place. Paper presented at Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, United States.

Reports

Leonard, P., & Wilde, R. (2017). Giving young people a chance to demonstrate their employability. London: Centre for Learning and Life Chances in Knowledge Economies and Societies (LLAKES).
Leonard, P., & Wilde, R. (2015). "They go the extra mile”: Experiences of young people at Volunteer Glasgow. London: University College London.
McGhee, D., & Leonard, P. (2009). The economic benefits of A8 EU in-migration to Southampton. s.n.
McGhee, D., & Leonard, P. (2008). Southampton City Council and the Improvement and Development Agency. London, GB: Improvement and Development Agency.

Working Paper

Halford, S., Hudson, M., Leonard, P., Parry, J., & Taylor, R. (2016). The new dynamics of work: a scoping study. Southampton, GB: University of Southampton.

I am currently Head of Teaching Programmes in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology. I teach on postgraduate units on Philosophy and methods in social science and Designing a research project as well as monthly training sessions for the ESRC DTC.

PhD Supervision

I am currently supervising the following research students:

Julie Blanchard - Pre-teen Fashionable Femininity, (jointly supervised with Susan Halford,SSPC)
Margarida Viera Cheung- New identities in Macau (jointly supervised with Derek McGhee, SSPC)
Matt Healy - Use of Technology in Careers Service (jointly supervised with Milena Buchs, SSPC)
Aasia Nisar - Can sustainable communities be achieved (Jointly supervised with Milena Buchs, SSPC)
Mike Saker - Convergence Devices and Pervasive Play (jointly supervised with Susan Halford SSPC and Mark Weal ECS)
Jonny Scott- On-line news (jointly supervised with David Millard, ECS)
Daria Tkacz - The experiences of Polish pupils in primary education in the UK: A case study of Southampton (jointly supervised with Derek McGhee and Charlie Walker SSPC)
Magda Zasada The comparative performance of social enterprises, charities and public provision in delivering health and social care for people with long term health problems

Professor Pauline Leonard
Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ United Kingdom

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