Professor Linda Perriton

Professor

Management, Work and Organisation University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA

Professor Linda Perriton

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About me

Background 

I began my career as an HRD consultant in the financial services sector before moving into higher education. My research is primarily in business history, with a focus on gender, commerce, and organisational activity in nineteenth-century Britain. I also work in critical management education, particularly in relation to reflective practice and the design of applied, practice-based learning.   Professional Activities  Academic Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development  Member of the editorial board of Management Learning  Member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Social Research Methodology HRM and HRD consultant

My research is primarily in business history, with a focus on how economic activity, organisation, and employment relationships are shaped by social and institutional contexts over time.

My recent work examines nineteenth-century commerce, partnerships, and gender in industrial Britain, with a particular emphasis on Glasgow. This research has been published in leading journals including Economic History Review and contributes to ongoing debates about the structure of business activity and the role of gender in economic life. I have also contributed to the development of feminist perspectives within business history, helping to extend the scope and focus in gender in the field.

Alongside this, I have an established interest in critical management education, particularly in the design of applied, practice-based learning and the development of professional judgement in business school settings.

I serve on the editorial boards of Management Learning and International Journal of Social Research Methodology, and am an Academic Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).

Other Project

The entrepreneurs who made Glasgow: the city and its businesses 1861-1901"
The Leverhulme Trust

Co-investigator on the Leverhulme Trust grant RPG-2020-382 Entrepreneurs are considered the engine of growth within an economy. But despite the literature that asserts that historic growth in cities was entrepreneurship-led, we lack sufficient research in city specific contexts and mechanisms. We view the history of business i.e. what businesses existed, their location, and who ran them, as an essential contribution to the debate about the historical transformation of economies. Focusing on Glasgow, we will take factors that are key to understanding economic development today and apply them to Glasgow's historical data to build a more holistic understanding of how migration, gender, age, and infrastructure shaped entrepreneurial activity.

Outputs (34)

Book Chapter

Critical voices in management education in the UK

Perriton L & Singh A (2016) Critical voices in management education in the UK. In: Staeyert C, Beyes T & Parker M (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Reinventing Management Education. Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting. Abigndon, UK: Routledge, pp. 77-90. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Reinventing-Management-Education/Steyaert-Beyes-Parker/p/book/9780415727372

Book Chapter

Reflecting on the conceptual (and practical) difficulties of reflection

Perriton L (2015) Reflecting on the conceptual (and practical) difficulties of reflection. In: Callahan J, Stewart J, Rigg C, Sambrook S & Trehan K (eds.) Realising Critical HRD: Stories of Reflecting, Voicing, and Enacting Critical Practice. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, pp. 14-36. http://www.cambridgescholars.com/realising-critical-hrd

Book Chapter

'Here be dragons': Approaching difficult group issues in networked learning

Perriton L & Reynolds M (2014) 'Here be dragons': Approaching difficult group issues in networked learning. In: Hodgson V, McConnell M, de Laat M & Ryberg T (eds.) The Design, Experience and Practice of Network Learning. Research in Networked Learning. New York: Springer, pp. 109-126. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-01940-6_6

Article

Editorial

Perriton L, Hodgson V & Reynolds M (2005) Editorial. Studies in Higher Education, 30 (1), pp. 5-10. https://doi.org/10.1080/0307507052000307759

Book Chapter

Sense or Sensibility? A reflection on virtue and ‘emotional’ HRD interventions

Perriton L (2005) Sense or Sensibility? A reflection on virtue and ‘emotional’ HRD interventions. In: Elliott C & Turnbull S (eds.) Critical thinking in Human Resource Development. Routledge Studies in Human Resource Development, 12. London: Routledge, pp. 175-188. https://www.routledge.com/products/9780415487993

Teaching

I am a Professor of Human Resource Management and Deputy Dean at the University of Stirling Business School.

My teaching specialisms are in: Training and Development, and associated HRM subjects, practice based and employment appropriate assessments esp. case study development.

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