Professor Lynne Baxter
Associate Dean EDI

Profile

Biography

Professor Lynne F Baxter is an internationally recognized researcher whose work focuses on the relationships between humans and material factors in the workplace. Over her career, she has secured more than £702,674 in funding for research, teaching, and knowledge transfer projects. Her academic contributions include an Academy of Management Best Paper prize and multiple 4-star rated papers, as well as invitations to deliver keynotes on affective atmospheres, post-qualitative methods, and early career researcher (ECR) development.

Lynne is currently the Associate Dean of EDI in the University of York’s School for Business and Society. She founded an international research group focusing on Gender and Materialities now associated with Feminism and Organization journal to support doctoral students and ECR colleagues. She has also served as Chair of the Board of Studies, Head of Group, and a member of the Senior Management Team (SMT), where she helped shape the school's strategy and degree programs.

Beyond academia, her early research on relational supply chain management led to a university spin-out company that consults for blue-chip firms, and her recent analysis of railway privatization has informed UK Government policy decisions regarding rail renationalisation.

Career

At the same time Lynne became a Lecturer at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh and developed other interests. She has been an investigator on two EPSRC funded research projects (J 57568), which used qualitative methods including cognitive mapping to explore the estimation of software development and (F85666) which used similar methods to examine stability in sourcing relations.

Lynne has won funding from SHEFC and private companies to develop computer based learning materials. She has published in the areas of manufacturing management and organisation theory, and in 2004 was jointly awarded the best paper prize in the Research Methodology section of the American Academy of Management.

Her book 'Managing Performance Improvement' was published in 2008, and she was invited to present the main findings by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development at their Learning Edge conference.

She is currently researching the dissolution of supply chains and gender and engineering design. She was elected the secretary of the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism, which has over 750 members.

Departmental roles

Workplace justice and business ethics Interdisciplinary Cluster Lead

Associate Dean EDI

Research

Overview

Primary Topics - Performance Improvement, Supply Chain Management, Management of Technology

Additional Topics - Gender, Research Methodology, Aesthetics

Industry - Whisky, Semiconductor

Geographical Areas - Scotland, The World

Publications

Selected publications

Full publications list

Baxter L, Ritchie J (2013) The sense of smell in researching a bakery. International Journal of Work, Organisation and Emotions 5(4); 369-383

Baxter, L.F. (2009) Embodied Rhythms in Healthcare Provision and Consumption, Conference Paper,  APROS, Mexico, Dec.

Baxter, L.F. and MacLeod, A.M. (2008) Managing Performance Improvements, Routledge, New York.

Baxter, L.F. (2008) Mimesis and Alterity in Product Innovation: Neophilia or Neophobia in Disguise? A paper presented at the 3rd Australasian Caucus of the Standing Conference in Organisation Symbolism, December, Sydney.

Baxter, L.F. (2008) Relating Sight and Soundscapes in Organisation Settings: An Exploratory Study, Standing Conference in Organisation Symbolism, Manchester, July.

Baxter, L.F. (2008) Artemisia's Foul: The Dark Side Of Female Organizing, Behind the Scenes, Between the Lines: Dismembering the Dark Side of Organisation, Wortley Hall, Sheffield

Baxter, L.A. (1985), Accomplishing Relationship Disengagement, in Duck, S., Perlman, D. (Eds), Understanding Personal Relationships. An Interdisciplinary Approach, Sage, London, pp.243-65.