Workplaces: The impact of workplace culture on individuals and organisations

This accessible romp through diverse workplaces reveals how their cultures have just as much, if not more, impact on the organisation than any strategic intent or managerial intervention.  It is an entertaining and informative book aimed at professionals, academics and general readers.

Workplaces recounts episodes from the author's varied working life, including an Embassy, an international investment bank and an African non-governmental organisation, highlighting important points about the realities of work and the effect workplace culture has on strategy, leadership, individuals and outcomes.

The book is intended to provoke reflection and consideration about the realities of working life, such as the meaning, purpose, status, identity and camaraderie work provides, the knowledge and concerns we take into and out of our workplaces, and whether we change into one of ‘them’ (those who already work there) or retain our alterity.  In discussing these points she touches on issues such as socio-political and cultural contexts, professionalism and unprofessionalism, structural inequalities, proximity to power, sexual politics, colonialism, and the impacts and trade-offs encountered between home and work life. 

Writer Associate in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, 2017-2021.

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Volunteer Tales: Experiences of Working Abroad

Foreword by Anita Roddick

A great number of people consider volunteering at some point in their life and this is a nuts and bolts guide to volunteering full of honest accounts from the people who know. These are true-life accounts from people of all walks of life and ages who decided to leave their 'normal' lives behind to take up the volunteer challenge overseas. Their stories include tales of travel and adventure, tales of hardship, tales of kindness, frustration and humour. 

Reading them, you too will experience culture shock in Ghana, the fear of war in Sierra Leone, helplessness in the face of poverty in Cambodia, fishing for piranha in Suriname, the struggles of an outsider in China and much, much more. They will open your eyes to new worlds and may even change your outlook in the ways they changed the volunteers.  

Disability and Aid: An Ethnography of Logics and Practices of Distribution in a Ugandan Refugee Camp - MariaTheres Schuler

Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies series.

At a time when rights are increasingly placed on the humanitarian agenda, this book provides a unique ethnographic account of the dynamics of aid to disabled people in a Ugandan refugee camp. By unraveling the complexities of social, material and institutional interdependencies, the author invites us to rethink conventional notions of dependence and vulnerability. Exploring issues of personhood as they relate to the exchange of material goods and care, the book offers a thought-provoking perspective on the seemingly promising shift towards a rights-based approach. A compelling read for anyone seeking to reshape the humanitarian agenda.

                                                              The Mask — Arrayed 

This project explores the material, technological, and cultural aspects of the most iconic artifact of the COVID-19 crisis—the face mask. Historians of science, technology, medicine, and the environment unmask in short essays the complexity of a seemingly simple object and unveil its many layers and different usages in both material and non-material terms.

The project is hosted by Department III (Artefacts, Action, Knowledge) of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) and is inspired by the department’s unique perspective on on studying the history of science that considers the changing role of artefacts: texts, objects, and spaces.