Professor Linda Perriton

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Management, Work and Organisation University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA

Professor Linda Perriton

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About me

Background 

I was a practising HRD consultant working in the financial services industry prior to gaining my PhD and switching to a career in higher education. My main area of teaching and research interest is learning and development, specifically critical approaches to reflective practice and management education. I also research the history of women in management and business, and the different approaches they took to their own training as managers.    Professional Activities  Academic Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development  Member of the editorial board of Management Learning  Member of the editorial board of HRDI Member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Social Research Methodology HRM and HRD consultant

My research explores the many ways in which women develop, defend, and express managerial competence. My interest in women’s managerial competence has produced several historical studies of women’s management in early philanthropic organisations, inter-war professional groups, and the foundation of women only financial organisations and institutions that allow women to independently manage their finances. I have also investigated the development and defence of competence by looking at gender and diversity training and gender in the management education curriculum. This is in addition to my work on how feminism and management education interact pedagogically within Critical Management Education approaches.  My current research projects focus on the impact of identity politics on teaching diversity to management students, and the number and distribution of women's businesses in 19th century Glasgow.

Awards and Prizes  Winner of the SAGE Best Leadership Paper in Management History, Academy of Management, Philadelphia August (2014)  Recipient of a European Savings Bank Group Academic Prize for my work on depositor behaviour in English savings banks in the 19th Century (2012) Winner of the Best Paper award in Gender and Management, British Academy of Management, St Andrews (2004)  Winner of the Best Paper award in Human Resources/Gender and Management, Academy of Management, Toronto August (2000) 

Other Project

The entrepreneurs who made Glasgow: the city and its businesses 1861-1901"
The Leverhulme Trust

Co-investigator on the Leverhulme Trust grant RPG-2020-382 Entrepreneurs are considered the engine of growth within an economy. But despite the literature that asserts that historic growth in cities was entrepreneurship-led, we lack sufficient research in city specific contexts and mechanisms. We view the history of business i.e. what businesses existed, their location, and who ran them, as an essential contribution to the debate about the historical transformation of economies. Focusing on Glasgow, we will take factors that are key to understanding economic development today and apply them to Glasgow's historical data to build a more holistic understanding of how migration, gender, age, and infrastructure shaped entrepreneurial activity.

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