Dr Caroline Gatrell
PhD Lancaster, MBA Lancaster, MA London, BA Manchester
Lecturer
Department
Management Learning and Leadership
Teaching
Director of the School’s Research Training Programme.
Research training:
Gender and relationships
Gender in Management, Family practices and work, The Sociology of the Management of Childbirth, Maternal Bodies, relationships, and work
Qualitative research methods; Strategies for managing yourself through the research process; Managing relationships in the context of research; Ways of negotiating panels and vivas;
Prizes
2005 Lancaster University Research Prize.
Awarded in recognition of pioneering research on the sociology of mothers, fathers and employment
2005 Lancaster University Media and Communications Prize.
Awarded in recognition of successful dissemination of research on parenting and employment to a wide set of audiences
Research Interests
My intellectual project focuses around the maternal body and I am engaged in examining changes, and changing relationships, in the context family practices, motherhood, fatherhood and paid/unpaid work. I am developing new work on Management and the (im)possibility of the maternal body, parenting and paid work and the sociology of the management of childbirth. Jointly with Imogen Tyler, (ICR) I am running an IAS funded series of research workshops: ‘Hard Labour, the Cultural Politics of Reproduction and Parenting’. The first workshop, ‘Maternal Bodies’, took place in November 2005 and the second, ‘Birth’ is scheduled for early 2006.
Selected Publications
- Gatrell CJ and Cooper CL, forthcoming, 'Flexibility: working for whom?', European Journal of International Management
- Gatrell CJ, forthcoming, 'Policy and the pregnant body at work: strategies of secrecy, silence and supra-performance', Gender, Work and Organization
- Tyler I and Gatrell CJ, forthcoming, 'Birth', Feminist Review
- Gatrell CJ, forthcoming, 'Abjuring the alien: the erasure of the pregnant body from workplace space', in Revealing and Concealing Gender, (eds) Lewis P and Simpson R, Palgrave, London
- Gatrell CJ, forthcoming, 'Measuring the Maternal: Managing the work of breastfeeding and employment', in Cultural and Global Perspectives on the Management of Infant Feeding, (eds) Liamputtong P, Springer, Berlin
- Gatrell CJ, Cooper CL and Kossek E, forthcoming, Women in Management and Business, a Reader, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham
- Gatrell CJ, 65, 'Secrets and lies: breastfeeding and professional paid work', Social Science and Medicine, pp 393-404
- Gatrell CJ, 2008, Embodying Women's Work, Open University Press, Maidenhead, ISBN: 9780335219902
- Gatrell CJ and Cooper CL, 2007, '(No) cracks in the glass ceiling: women managers, stress and the barriers to success', in The Handbook on Women in Business and Management, (eds) Bilimoria D and Piderit SK, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp 57-77, ISBN: 1845424328
- Gatrell CJ, 2006, Managing Part-time Study: A guide for undergraduates and postgraduates, Open University Press, Maidenhead, ISBN: 033521939X
