Profile

Biography

I have been at York since 2000, the year that the University decided to establish an academic department for the study of management. In the past few years I have developed a research interest in the history of women in management and committee governance in addition to my core research area of Human Resource Development. I am an academic member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).

Professional Activities

Academic Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development

Member of the Academy of Human Resource Development

Member of the editorial board of Management Learning
Member of the editorial board of Leadership

HRM consultant, Evergreen Personnel Ltd

Research

Overview

Much of my research and the majority of my publications to date have been in the area of Human Resource Development (specifically the study of management development practices of private sector providers). This field of study tends to be dominated by practitioner accounts of their methods, which often focus on how successful they are. My research challenges the perception of training and development as an inherent good and critically interrogates its underlying assumptions.

A more recent area of research interest has been the history of women and management. A project that looked at the provision of management training for women in the immediate post-war period has led to further research into 19th Century support for women's training and committee structures as managerial training mechanisms. This, in turn, has generated research collaborations with Professor Josephine Maltby in the Accounting and Finance Group in the area of the history of women and savings.

Publications

Full publications list

Perriton, L (2009) "The education of women for citizenship: the National Federation of Women's Institutes and the British Federation of Business and Professional Women 1930-1959", Gender and Education, vol. 21, no. 1 p81-95

Perriton, L (2009) "We Don't Want Complaining Women!" A Critical Analysis of the Business Case for Diversity. Management Communication Quarterly, Vol. 23, No. 2, 218-243

Perriton, L (2009) "A Reflection on the Significance of Numbers", Management Learning, Vol. 40, No. 4, 393-399

Perriton, L (2007) "The personal becomes polemical? The problematic second generation of facilitative practice", Management Learning. 38 (2), pp. 155-177

Perriton, L (2007) "Really useful knowledge? Critical Management Education in the UK and US", Scandinavian Journal of Management, 23 (1), pp. 66-83

Perriton, L (2007) "Forgotten feminists: The Federation of British Professional and Business Women, 1933-1969", Women's History Review, 16 (1), pp. 79-97

Perriton, L (2006) "Does woman + a network = career progression?", Leadership, Vol 2 (1), pp. 101-113

Perriton, L and Greener, I., (2005) "The political economy of networked learning communities in higher education", Studies in Higher Education, Vol. 30 (1), pp. 67-79

Hodgson, V., Perriton, L. and Reynolds, M (2005) "Introduction to the special issue on Learning Communities and Networked Learning: Theory, Practice and Critique", Studies in Higher Education, Vol. 30 (1)

Perriton, L., (2005) "Sense or Sensibility? A reflection on virtue and 'emotional' HRD interventions, in C. Elliott and S. Turnbull (eds) Critical thinking in Human Resource Development, London: Routledge

Perriton, L., (2004) "A reflection of what exactly? A provocation regarding the use of 'critical' reflection in Critical Management Education, in R. Vince and M. Reynolds (eds) Critical Reflection, London: Ashgate Publishing

Perriton, L and Reynolds, M., (2004) "Critical Management Education: From Pedagogy of Possibility to Pedagogy of Refusal?", Management Learning, Vol 35, (1) pp. 61-77

Perriton, L., (2001) "Sleeping with the enemy? Exploiting the textual turn in management research". International Journal of Social Research Methodology, Vol 4. (1), pp. 35-50.

Perriton, L., (2001) "Incestuous Fields: Management Research, Emotion and Data Analysis", Sociological Research Online, Vol 5 (3)

Perriton, L., (2000) Verandah discourses: Critical Management Education in Organisations, British Journal of Management, 11 (3) pp. 227-239

Perriton, L., (1999) "Paper Dolls: The evocative and provocative gaze upon women in Organisational management development", Gender and Education, Vol. 11 (3), pp. 295-307

Recent Conference papers

'Women and  not-for profit financial institutions: the York Female Friendly Society, presentation at the Management History Research Group, University of York, July 2009 with Josephine Maltby

'The management of these thrifty wives', presentation at the 2009 Women's History Network, University of Oxford, September 2009 with Josephine Maltby and Katrina Honeyman

Perriton, L (2005) Who's that girl? Data analysis and the single, white female researcher, presented at the 4th International Gender, Work and Organisation Conference, 22nd - 24th June 2005, Keele University

Perriton, L (2005) Avoiding the ‘f' word. Exploring discourses of gender capital management. Presented at the 4th International Critical Management Studies Conference, 4th - 6th July 2005, University of Cambridge

Elliott, C., Perriton, L. and Priyasharshini, E (2004) Doing gender in the transnational capitalist class, Presented to the British Academy of Management Conference, St. Andrews, August 30-Sept 1