The Team
Dr Maria Daskalaki is a Professor in Organization Studies at Roehampton Business School, University of Roehampton, London. She graduated with a BA in Psychology and an MA from Lancaster University in Organisational Analysis and Behaviour. She then completed her PhD in Organisation Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is currently involved in interdisciplinary research on a wide range of themes and subject areas including urbanities and embodied creativity, solidarity economy, alternative forms of organizing as well as autobiographical narratives, discourse and identity. She has published in various peer-reviewed journals included Organization Studies, Journal of Management Inquiry, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, International Journal of HRM and Culture and Organisation. Email: maria.daskalaki@roehampton.ac.uk
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Dr Dimitra Vladimirou is a Lecturer in Linguistics at Coventry University. She holds a PhD from the department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, UK. She is currently leading the project ‘Impoliteness and Conflict in Computer Mediated Communication’, working with Juliane House. Another strand of her research focuses on critical approaches to academic discourse, as well as the construction and production of knowledge in various disciplinary fields, including organization studies. Her work has been published in the International Journal of Applied Linguistics and the Journal of English for Academic Purposes and in the peer-reviewed edited volumes: The Semiperiphery of Academic Writing: Discourses Communities, Practices (2014), and Constructing Collectivity: ‘We’ across Languages and Contexts (2014), published by Palgrave Macmillan and John Benjamins respectively.
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Dr Christina Butler is an Associate Professor at Kingston Business School. Her research interests focus on aspects of global work including leadership of global teams, team-based global organising, language and emotional influences on global work, and preparing young graduates for the demands of global work. I aim to create impact in the areas of team, talent and career development and management by employing longitudinal, multi-level modelling, experimental and narrative designs.
