Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour
Elena Pagani is a Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour at UCA Business School for the Creative Industries.
Bio
Coming from an activist background in the social and solidarity economy, Elena's education covers the areas of Management and Organisation studies, Information Systems and Philosophy. She is an Associate Fellow in Advance Higher Education. Elena has taught the units of Organisational Behaviour, Management and Organisation, Global Business Environment, Creative People and Organisations, Work Design and Organisational Change, and Creative Business Start-Up.
Elena has worked for several years as a Digital Learning manager and practitioner in HR projects in the UK. Furthermore, she has co-founded, among other groups, an alternative currency network, an agro-collective and a worker co-operative In Greece.
Research statement
Elena's research is broadly themed around prefigurative politics in Organization Studies. The main focus of her research is interpersonal process interactions and their transformative potential toward social change in worker co-operatives as alternative forms of organizing. She is interested in the less conscious and intentional aspects of interpersonal interactions, as well as the less conscious and intentional aspects of academic theorizing and writing. In framing her work, she experiments with ideas of prefiguration, utopia, and feminist and queer lenses on freedom, power, agonism, and antagonism. She has experience in qualitative, creative, and co-produced and bottom-up methods, and ethnographic, intersubjective, and intersectional methodologies.
Research supervision
Elena has successfully supervised a PhD student to completion. She is interested in supervising students whose work considers aspects of:
- Alternative organisations
- Prefigurative politics
- Freedom
- Feminism
- Ethnography