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Profiles
Dr Sue Kinsey
Associate Head of School (Teaching & Learning/Digital Literacy)
Plymouth Graduate School of Management & Plymouth Business School (Faculty of Business)
Role
Associate Head (Teaching and Learning) PBS
UG and PG teaching and supervision in the areas of discourse and language, people management/ HR, OB and leadership.
Qualifications
Experience:
1984-1996: HR roles in financial services, including ER, E and D, L and D, management development, graduate recruitment
1996-2002: Self-employed associate/consultant in HR/HRD
2002-2011: Senior Lecturer in HRM, University of Wolverhampton Business School
May 2011-present : Plymouth Business School
Qualifications:
BA Hons (Modern Languages-2:1) Leeds University, 1984
MSc Organisational Behaviour, Birkbeck College, London University, 2002
PGCE (LTHE) University of Wolverhampton, 2004
PhD A discourse analytic study of the role and identity of HR practitioners in UK local government, Nottingham University Business School, 2012
Professional membership
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Academic Member of the CIPD
Teaching interests
All aspects of OB, HR/HRM, Identity, Discourse
Staff serving as external examiners
External examiner at Greenwich University
Research interests
Discourse, identity, role and identity of the HR function, public sector change
Maiden, B and Kinsey, S (2006) ‘Encouraging Reflective practice through the introduction of e-portfolios: a comparison of the postgraduate and undergraduate experience’, University of Wolverhampton Learning and Teaching Project
Maiden, B and Kinsey, S (2006) Introduction to People Work and Organisations, (Custom Text) Harlow: Pearson Custom Publishing
Maiden, B and Kinsey, S (2006) ‘Issues of control and conformity: Constructing identity through continuous professional development’, Paper presented to the 7th International Conference on HRD Research and Practice across Europe, Tilburg University, May 22nd-24th, 2006
Kinsey, S (2008) ‘Talking, doing, being HR: a critical discourse analytic study of identity construction in a UK local government HR department, Paper presented to the 8th International Conference on Organizational Discourse, QMCUL, July 23-25th, 2008
Kinsey, S (2010) ‘Why we hate HR’, Paper presented to the Management Research Centre conference, University of Wolverhampton, October, 2012
Kinsey, S (2010) ‘Adding value and achieving legitimacy: Dave Ulrich and the HR ‘value proposition’’, paper presented to the Conference of Practical Criticism, Wednesday, November 17th, University of Leicester School of Management
Kinsey, S (2012) Professional partner or Management’s Bitch? A Discourse Analytic Study of the Identity Construction of HR Practitioners in English local Government, Unpublished Thesis, University of Nottingham
Kinsey, S, Coupland C and Humphreys, M (2012) ‘Performing like a Pro: Constructing professional identity through gendered and sexualised discourses’, Paper presented to the 10th International Conference on Organizational Discourse, VU, Amsterdam, 18th-20th July
Fisher, V and Kinsey, S (2012) ‘The academic boys club: homosocial desire at work’, paper presented to British Academy of Management Conference, Cardiff University, 11th-13th September, 2012
Kinsey, S (2013) 'HR’s Legitimacy in ‘times of crisis’: Revisiting the deviant innovator role?' BAM HRM SIG Mini-Conference, Newcastle University Business School, 8th -10th April
Kinsey, S and Fisher, V (2013) 'Pursuing professional legitimacy through neo-liberal identification: the failed case of the HR function', paper presented to the 8th Critical Management Studies Conference, Manchester Business School, 10th-12th July
Fisher, V and Kinsey, S (2014) ‘Behind closed doors: Homosocial desire and the academic boys club’, Gender in Management: An International Journal, 29:1, pp.44-64