Dr Martin Brigham
BA (Hons) (Lancaster), MA (Warwick), PhD (Warwick)
Lecturer
Department
Organisation Work and Technology
Office Hours
Mondays 12-1pm term time or by appointment
Professional Role
Departmental PQR Coordinator
Until September 2009:
Undergraduate Part I Director of Studies: Management and Organisation
Departmental Equal Opportunities Representative
Steering Group Committee Member: Lancaster MBA
Steering Group Committee Member: MSc Information Technology, Management and Organisational Change
Departmental Undergraduate Teaching Committee
Member of the Centre for the Study of Technology and Organisation
From 2005-2008 I convened the departmental research seminar series
External Roles
I am a member of a number of scholarly networks and professional associations:
Critical Management Studies: one of the conference organisers of the 2003 third CMS conference at Lancaster University
Academy of Management: all-academy symposium co-organiser with Bobby Banerjee, Raza Mir and Maarten van der Kamp, annual conference in Anaheim, Los Angeles in 2008
European Group for Organisation Studies
Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development
Current Teaching
I teach across a range of undergraduate, postgraduate and post-experience programmes:
Undergraduate
OWT.230 Management and Environments: Contributing lecturer
OWT.324 and OWT.325 Management and Organisation: Convenor
MNGT321 Management in the Twenty-First Century: Contributing lecturer and tutor
Postgraduate
MA Human Resource and Knowledge Management: Specialist departmental master's programme
Knowledge Management II: Contributing lecturer
MBA: Two core modules on the Lancaster MBA programme.
Organisational Behaviour: Contributing lecturer
Global Society and Responsible Management: Convenor and lecturer
Executive Tutoring
International Masters in Practising Management (IMPM): Masters programme provided by a partnership of Lancaster University in the UK, McGill Univeristy in Canada, the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore, Renmin University of China and EBAPE FGV-Rio in Brazil.
I have supervised major papers/dissertations for participants from the International Federation of the Red Cross based in the Indian sub-continent and East Africa. Tutored participants from Aids Allaince from western and eastern Europe, southern and western Africa, South America and Asia. Currently, I am the tutor for participants from the Kenya Red Cross.
Doctoral Supervision
I currently supervise two doctoral students: Maarten van der Kamp is researching organic food standards (supervised with Professor Elizabeth Shove from the Department of Sociology), and Alison Stowell (with Professor Lucas Introna) is researching the impact of e-waste since the EU WEEE Directive. Previously, I supervised Simon Burnett's (with Dr Colin Brown, 2009) doctorate on the cultural trajectory of happiness.
Research Interests
My research is underpinned by a theoretical preoccupation with how new forms of technological, organisational and environmental value are constituted through the idea and practice of contemporary governance and how these reconfigure our understanding of organising and organisations.
This theoretical focus connects the empirical research I have conducted over the last 10 years - on public sector modernisation, partnerships and non-governmental organisations, and corporate reporting of environmental sustainability.
For my doctorate at Warwick Business School, I researched the programmatic deployment of a mobile information infrastructure at a UK fire service. I am currently revisiting the fire service a decade after the initial research to follow the securitisation of public sector management through a national information management project.
I have a recent interest in the management of global development and NGOs through the governmentalisation of management. Particularly evidence-based forms of evaluation and inter-organisational partnerships.
An interest in the natural environment and, specifically, governance through sustainability, but also the genealogy of the natural environment and practices for reporting sustainability in corporate contexts.
I am interested in supervising doctoral students in these three research areas.
Current Research
The programme and practice of contemporary governance in organised contexts:
The 'greening' of organisational change, and discourses and practices of sustainability
Managerialism and NGOs
Modernisation and public management, particularly information infrastructures
Research Grants
Masters, University of Warwick
Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
Doctorate, University of Warwick
Funded Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
ESRC Seminar Series on Corporate Social Responsibility
Co-applicant for ESRC seminar series: 'Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): When Worlds Collide: Contested Paradigms of Corporate Responsibility', £18,000.
Co-applicant for The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW): Seminar Series: 'Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): When Worlds Collide: Contested Paradigms of Corporate Responsibility', £3,000.
Other consortium partners were: Professor Paul Palmer, CASS Business School, City University; Alan Murray, Sheffield University Management School; Dr Rob Melville, CASS business school, City University; Dr Kathryn Haynes, York Management School; and Richard Spencer, Corporate Responsibility Manager of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
The series will begin in the Autumn of 2008 at the British Library in London and run for 18 months, with further seminars at Lancaster, York, St Andrews, the ICAEW and Cass. For more information: http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/news/15028/esrc-seminar-series-on-csr/
Governance and Accounting for Sustainability
The Prince's Trust Accounting for Sustainability Project during 2009-10. Funded by the Prince's Trust and the Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies (CCAB). Research projects led by Professor Anthony Hopwood, Oxford University and Jeffrey Unerman, Royal Holloway, University of London. Presentation of findings with David Otley and Vicky Kiosse at HRH's The Prince of Wales' Accounting for Sustainability Forum Annual Meeting at St. James' Palace, London, on 17 December 2009. For more information: http://www.accountingforsustainability.org/home/
Profile
I have been a guest editor of the journal Ethics and Information Technology and an associate editor of the International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management. I have published in range academic journals includung the Journal of Managment Studies, New Technology Work and Employment, Ephemera, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Ethics and Information Technology, Society and Business Review, and the Journal of Information Technology.
I am a reviewer for number of academic journals and conferences in the field of management and organisation studies including Organization, Human Relations, Management Learning, the International Journal of Management Reviews, Organization Studies and the Academy of Management.
Journal article (8)
Conference contribution (5)
Working paper (4)
Selected publications (13)
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Publications
- Brigham Martin and Introna Lucas, 2009, 'Organizing technology:of hospitality', in Bricolage, Care and Information Systems, Palgrave, London, pp. 276-304
View details - Introna Lucas and Brigham Martin, 2008, 'Community and virtual strangers', in Phenomenology, Organisation, and Technology, Universidade Católica Editora and POT Books, Lisbon, pp. 281-294
View details - Brigham Martin and Introna Lucas, 2007, 'Invoking politics and ethics in the design of information technology', Ethics and Information Technology, vol 9, no. 1, pp. 1-10.
View details - Introna Lucas and Brigham Martin, 2007, 'Reconsidering community and the stranger in the age of virtuality', Society and Business Review, vol 2, no. 2, pp. 166-178.
View details - Sharratt D, Brigham B H and Brigham Martin, 2007, 'The utility of social obligations in the UK energy industry', Journal of Management Studies, vol 44, no. 8, pp. 1503-1522.
View details - Brigham Martin and Introna Lucas, 2007, 'Strategy as hospitality, bricolage and enframing: lessons from the identities and trajectories of information technologies', in Information Management: Setting the Scene, Elsevier, London, New York and Amsterdam, pp. 161-172, ISBN: 9780080463261
View details - Brigham Martin and Introna Lucas, 2006, 'Hospitality, improvisation and Gestell: a phenomenology of mobile information', Journal of Information Technology, vol 21, pp. 140-153.
View details - Brigham Martin, 2005, 'The becoming of organization and the organization of becoming', in Thinking Organization, Routledge, London and New York, pp. 218-246, ISBN: 0415333644
View details - Brigham Martin, 2005, 'Mobility in formation and the mobility of information: translating infrastructures of organising in the provision of UK Fire Services', International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management, vol 5, no. 9, pp. 157-166.
View details - Brigham Martin, 2001, 'Life enhancement now, now, now', Ephemera: Critical Dialogues on Organization, vol 1, no. 4, pp. 374-394.
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