Democratising Methodologies
“The democratisation of research has been identified as one of the key methodological challenges of the 21st century” (Edwards and Brannelly, 2017) Over the past
“The democratisation of research has been identified as one of the key methodological challenges of the 21st century” (Edwards and Brannelly, 2017) Over the past
In 1995 Robert Putnam wrote a fascinating and highly influential essay called Bowling Alone. Within this, and the subsequent book published in 2000, Putman documented
Democracy to Come was devised as a website to disseminate information about how we might move towards achieving more democracy at work. During my travels
One of the central challenges of being an academic is attempting to translate what we write about in our publications into some kind of meaningful
I have now worked at three business schools in my relatively short academic career: Leeds, Durham and Sheffield. All three of them really lovely places
Several years ago at the very start of my journey into exploring democratic organizations, I visited Nixon McInnes, a digital consultancy company based in Brighton.
One of the scariest things I can recall about being a young academic was attending conferences. Not only were you being asked to present your
One major theme in my research is that whilst many individuals aspire to more democratic ways of working, achieving it in practice is an extremely
In November 2019 I was fortunate enough to be invited to give my first international keynote presentation at Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland. I was asked
March 1st – 3rd 2019, Jubilee Conference Centre, Nottingham University The purpose of the “Sociocracy at Work” event was to reflect and integrate the findings