Lecturer

Email: jennifer.manning@tudublin.ie

Qualifications: PhD Critical Management Studies, MSc International Business, BSc Marketing

I’m a Lecturer in Strategic Management and Critical Management in TU Dublin where I started working in 2016 following the completion of my PhD. In my teaching, I employ a critical pedagogy to stimulate students’ critical thinking skills and engage their critical and social consciousness. Much of my teaching is informed by my research area of expertise. My research, which stems from my multi-award winning PhD, employs a decolonial feminist lens to explore colonialism, hetero-patriarchy and capitalism in management and organisation studies. My work explores alternative ways of working and organising. As an ethnographer, during my PhD I developed a critical, empowering approach to research, Decolonial Feminist Ethnography.

Academic Publications

Chapters in Books 

• Manning, J. (2022). A decolonial feminist ethnography: Empowerment, ethics and epistemology. In Empowering Methodologies in Organisational and Social Research (pp. 39-54). Routledge.

Journal Publications 

• Manning, J. (2021). Decolonial feminist theory: Embracing the gendered colonial difference in management and organisation studies. Gender, Work & Organization, 28(4), 1203-1219.
• Weston, A., Imas, M., Manning, J., Donnelly, P. and Ngwerume, K. (2019). Un(der)employed youth: fom precariousness to resilience. Psicoperspectivas, 18(3), 29-40.
• Manning, J. (2018). Becoming a decolonial feminist ethnographer: Addressing the complexities of positionality and representation. Management Learning, 49(3), 311-326.
• Manning, J. (2016). Constructing a postcolonial feminist ethnography. Journal of Organizational Ethnography, 5(2), 90-105

Conference Proceedings/Papers 

• Manning, J. (2019). Decolonial Feminist Theory: Embracing the Gendered Colonial Difference in Management & Organisation. In Academy of Management Proceedings (Vol. 2019, No. 1, p. 14517). NY: Academy of Management.
• Manning, J. (2018). Communitarian organising: Maya women decolonising organisation and management studies. In Academy of Management Proceedings (Vol. 2018, No. 1, p. 12366). NY: Academy of Management.
• Manning, J. (2017). Communitarian organising: Maya women decolonising organisation studies. In 10th international critical management studies conference, Liverpool, UK.

Teaching and Supervision  

I have taught at all Higher Education levels, modes of delivery (full-time, part-time, executive, international, face-to-face, online, workshop-based), and cohort sizes. I have successfully designed, validated, delivered and led modules and programmes in a range of subject areas and levels. I have also supervised over 20 postgraduate taught students to successful completion of their dissertations.

I teach in the disciplinary areas of Research Methods, Strategic Management, Critical Thinking and Problem Solving, and Critical Management Studies. I am currently working on the development and roll out of a variety of Critical Management Studies based modules that are rooted in the everydayness of students lived experiences in our epoch of crises and uncertainty to try engage students critical and social consciousness by providing them with a space to think critically about the social, political and economic phenomena that shape individuals and societies; encouraging them to create alternative versions of what is possible. 

Research Interests for Potential Research Students

I take a critical approach to management, work and organisation. I am particularly interested in:

• Exploring alternative ways of working and organising. This includes using decolonial and feminist lenses to understand different indigenous working and organising practices, activist organising and social movement. 
• Critical management education and the decolonisation of knowledge.
• Exploring the relationship between business and society and how people, managers, workers and activists can address the most urgent and current issues of our contemporary society concerning unsustainable practices and socio-ecological crises.
• Using critical reflexive ethnographies and empowering ethical approaches for engaging in qualitative research.

My current research is focused on the decolonisation and depatriarchalism of management and organisation studies (MOS) by exploring alternative ways of working and organising. This research challenges the dominance of theories that are implicitly male/masculine, white/Western and bourgeois/managerial and calls for diverse critical perspectives in MOS to nurture a space for multi-theoretical lenses to challenge our understanding of power and its relation to gender, ethnicity, race, class, sexuality and socio-political location. This contributes to my second area of research; critical management education. A critical management pedagogy understand education to be political, ethical, humanistic, and even radical, and invites students to take seriously the history of exploitation and oppression reproduced by different forms of political economy, including capitalism, White heteropatriarchy, colonialism and imperialism, and the progressive struggles for freedom and equality.

My research has been published in top tier international journals, including Management Learning and Gender, Work and Organization.

My current PhD student uses an African decolonial feminist lens to explore the alternative working practices of women textile traders engaged in the informal economy in Southwest Nigeria.  

Areas of Professional Expertise

Prior to my return to academic, I worked in the non-profit sector. This aligns with my teaching and research whereby I’m interested in alternative, ethical and activist management and work practices that contribute to the betterment of society as a whole. 

Committee and Panel Membership

I serve on the editorial board of the top tier international journal, Organization. I am a member of the Critical Management Studies division of the Academy of Management.