Virginia Fisher

Dr Virginia Fisher - ()

Job title: Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Human Resource Studies, School of Management (Plymouth Business School (Faculty))
Address: Room 213, Cookworthy Building, Drake Circus,
Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
Telephone: +441752585724
Email: virginia.fisher@plymouth.ac.uk

Role
Programme Manager for the MA in Human Resource Management

Qualifications & background

BA (Hons) History (University of Birmingham) 2(i)
PG Diploma in Personnel Management (University of Aston)
MA in Industrial Relations (University of Warwick) Distinction
Doctorate in Education (University of Keele)

After a career in public sector Human Resource Management, I entered higher education with Wolverhampton University as a senior lecturer in HRM. I joined Plymouth University in 2010.

Professional membership
I am a chartered member of the CIPD.

Teaching interests

Employee Resourcing
Employee Reward
Employee Relations
HRM in Context
Research Methods

Research interests

My doctorate was an exploration of the gendered work cultures of higher education.
My research interests include gender, management, diversity, managerialism, higher education and ethnographic research methods.
In 2010 I completed a six month secondment to the Graduate School of Wolverhampton University leading an internally funded project investigating the under representation of women academics in the RAE 2008 and within the professoriate.

Publications

Publications and conference papers

Fisher, V. (2011) 'Women and research in British universities: an institutional case study' International Journal of Management Concepts & Philosophy 5(4) pp311-332
Fisher, V. (2010) 'Mobilising academic masculinities: the best kept secret?' Paper presented to the Gender Work & Organization 6th International Interdisciplinary Conference 21st-23rd June, Keele University.
Fisher, V. (2010) ‘Women in research at the University of Wolverhampton’. Unpublished report (University of Wolverhampton).

Fisher, V. (2009) ‘Double double toil and (gender) trouble’: a feminist ethnography of the performance of gender and sexuality within a business school. (Unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Keele).
Fisher, V. (2007) ‘You need tits to get on round here: gender & sexuality in the entrepreneurial university of the 21^st century’. Ethnography 8(4) pp 503-517
Fisher, V. (2007) ‘Gender & sexuality in the entrepreneurial university of the twenty-first century’ Paper presented to the Gender Work & Organization 5^th International Interdisciplinary conference 27^th to 29^th June, Keele University.