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‘You're on show all the time’: Moderating emotional labour through space in the emergency department (2022)
Journal Article
Kirk, K., Cohen, L., Edgley, A., & Timmons, S. (2022). ‘You're on show all the time’: Moderating emotional labour through space in the emergency department. Journal of Advanced Nursing, https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.15315

Aims: This is the second of two papers conceptualizing emotional labour in the emergency department (ED). This paper aims to understand the environmental ‘moderators’ of ED nurses’ emotional labour. Design: Ethnography, through an interpretivist phil... Read More about ‘You're on show all the time’: Moderating emotional labour through space in the emergency department.

Experiencing Gender Regimes: Accounts of Women Professors in Mexico, the UK and Sweden (2021)
Journal Article
Cohen, L., Duberley, J., Adriana, B., & Torres, B. (2021). Experiencing Gender Regimes: Accounts of Women Professors in Mexico, the UK and Sweden. Work, Employment and Society, 37(2), 525-544. https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170211041290

This article investigates differences between statistics on gender equality in Mexico, the UK and Sweden, and similarities in women professors’ career experiences in these countries. We use Acker’s inequality regime framework, focusing on gender, to... Read More about Experiencing Gender Regimes: Accounts of Women Professors in Mexico, the UK and Sweden.

Making Sense of Our Working Lives: The concept of the career imagination (2021)
Journal Article
Cohen, L., & Duberley, J. (2021). Making Sense of Our Working Lives: The concept of the career imagination. Organization Theory, 2(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/26317877211004600

In 2001 foot and mouth hit and obviously devastated the business completely. So it’s a honeypot village and literally it was as though somebody had put a gate against it. It was incredible. There were no cars, the kids were just riding bikes up an... Read More about Making Sense of Our Working Lives: The concept of the career imagination.

“I don’t have any emotions”: An ethnography of emotional labour and feeling rules in the emergency department (2021)
Journal Article
Kirk, K., Cohen, L., Edgley, A., & Timmons, S. (2021). “I don’t have any emotions”: An ethnography of emotional labour and feeling rules in the emergency department. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 77(4), 1956-1967. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.14765

Aims: This study aims to apply Hochschild's theory of emotional labour to emergency care, and uncover the 'specialty-specific' feeling rules driving this labour. Despite the importance of positive nurse wellbeing, the emotional labour of nursing (a g... Read More about “I don’t have any emotions”: An ethnography of emotional labour and feeling rules in the emergency department.

Women in extraordinary times: the impact of external jolts on professional women’s careers (2020)
Journal Article
Cohen, L., & Duberley, J. (2020). Women in extraordinary times: the impact of external jolts on professional women’s careers. Journal of Professions and Organization, 7(3), 247-264. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpo/joaa019

This article examines the impact of external jolts on professional women's careers. Although scholars have begun to address the role of context in career, little research has addressed the effects of unexpected and uncontrollable events. This is regr... Read More about Women in extraordinary times: the impact of external jolts on professional women’s careers.

Working for an Algorithm: Power Asymmetries and Agency in Online Work Settings (2019)
Journal Article
Curchod, C., Patriotta, G., Cohen, L., & Neysen, N. (2020). Working for an Algorithm: Power Asymmetries and Agency in Online Work Settings. Administrative Science Quarterly, 65(3), 644-676 . https://doi.org/10.1177/0001839219867024

Drawing on interviews with 77 high-performing eBay business sellers, this article investigates the power asymmetries generated by customer evaluations in online work settings. Sellers' accounts revealed a high degree of sensitivity to negative review... Read More about Working for an Algorithm: Power Asymmetries and Agency in Online Work Settings.

The problem of visibility of women in engineering and how they manage it (2018)
Journal Article
Fernando, D., Cohen, L., & Duberley, J. (2018). The problem of visibility of women in engineering and how they manage it. Harvard Business Review,

Being both visible and invisible: how women engineers manage this paradox and what it means for their careers Women engineers (and others in ultra masculine sectors) have a visibility problem. While they are often excessively visible in terms of thei... Read More about The problem of visibility of women in engineering and how they manage it.

What managers can do to keep women in engineering (2018)
Journal Article
Fernando, D., Cohen, L., & Duberley, J. (2018). What managers can do to keep women in engineering. Harvard Business Review,

Engineering faces a serious gender-based retention problem. Despite all the efforts encouraging women to study engineering, over 40% of highly skilled women who enter the field end up leaving. Much has been written about why women in the field leave,... Read More about What managers can do to keep women in engineering.

Navigating sexualised visibility: A study of British women engineers (2018)
Journal Article
Fernando, D., Cohen, L., & Duberley, J. (2019). Navigating sexualised visibility: A study of British women engineers. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 113, 6-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2018.06.001

In this article we use the term 'sexualised visibility' to describe how in male dominated work settings such as engineering, women are inscribed with sexual attributes that overshadow and obscure other attributes and values. From a career point of vi... Read More about Navigating sexualised visibility: A study of British women engineers.

What helps? Women engineers' accounts of staying on (2018)
Journal Article
Fernando, D., Cohen, L., & Duberley, J. (2018). What helps? Women engineers' accounts of staying on. Human Resource Management Journal, 28(3), 479-495. https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12192

We have considerable understanding of the obstacles that women engineers encounter and the reasons that they leave the field, but we know less about what enables them to remain. Adopting an interpretivist approach, this article examines how a group o... Read More about What helps? Women engineers' accounts of staying on.

Losing the Faith: Public Sector Work and the Erosion of Career Calling (2018)
Journal Article
Cohen, L., Duberley, J., & Smith, P. (2019). Losing the Faith: Public Sector Work and the Erosion of Career Calling. Work, Employment and Society, 33(2), 326-335. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017017746906

This article tells the story of Dave, a welfare rights advisor who worked his way up to be Assistant Director of Social Services in a Midlands local authority. Dave joined the public sector with a sense of calling and a belief that local government c... Read More about Losing the Faith: Public Sector Work and the Erosion of Career Calling.

Poachers and gamekeepers: processes of class-based organizational closure and usurpation in Sri Lanka's emerging private sector (2016)
Journal Article
Fernando, W. D. A., & Cohen, L. (2016). Poachers and gamekeepers: processes of class-based organizational closure and usurpation in Sri Lanka's emerging private sector. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 28(15), 2184-2207. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2015.1128463

In a qualitative study based on 25 interviews, we examine highly skilled workers’ accounts of class-based closure in emerging occupational sectors in Sri Lanka. Our findings reveal holes in the entrance criteria firms demanded to secure their elite s... Read More about Poachers and gamekeepers: processes of class-based organizational closure and usurpation in Sri Lanka's emerging private sector.

Three faces of context and their implications for career: a study of public sector careers cut short (2015)
Journal Article
Cohen, L., & Duberley, J. (2015). Three faces of context and their implications for career: a study of public sector careers cut short. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 91, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2015.10.006

This paper examines the impact of context on careers. It is based on a study of senior managers in an English Local Authority. It offers two important contributions: first, an empirical contribution examining how context matters to individuals in th... Read More about Three faces of context and their implications for career: a study of public sector careers cut short.

Respectable femininity and career agency: exploring paradoxical imperatives (2013)
Journal Article
Fernando, W. D. A., & Cohen, L. (2013). Respectable femininity and career agency: exploring paradoxical imperatives. Gender, Work and Organization, 21(2), https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12027

This paper places respectable femininity at the very centre of career enactment. In the accounts of 24 Sri Lankan women, notions of being a ‘respectable’ woman recurred as respondents described how important it was to adhere to the powerful behaviour... Read More about Respectable femininity and career agency: exploring paradoxical imperatives.