Newcastle University Business School

Staff Profile

Dr Susan Kirk

Senior Lecturer

Background

Dr Susan Kirk is Deputy Subject Group Head of the Leadership, Work and Organisation Subject Group within Newcastle University Business School, Newcastle University. She is also a Senior Lecturer in International Human Resource Management. Susan's areas of research interest are; global mobility, talent management, identity studies and, more broadly, organisation studies and international human resource management. Her ESRC-funded PhD was a sociological study of the lives of globally mobile leaders. She supervises doctoral students in these areas and to-date has supervised 6 doctoral students to completion.

Susan is a reviewer for a number of leading, peer-reviewed journals and international conferences, where she has also been a stream convenor. She has published her work in journals such as the International Journal of Human Resource Management and the European Management Review.

Currently, she is part of the global Ambassador research team, led by Professor Frederick Morgeson, sponsored by the Academy of Management, exploring international aspects of job design. She is also involved in a project exploring doctoral students' identity journeys in collaboration with colleagues at Cranfield and Henley Management Schools and Maryland University, USA.

Susan was the Co-Track Chair for the Human Resource Management Special Interest Group of the British Academy of Management (BAM) (2016-2019) and she is now the Secretary for the SiG. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and a member of both the Trent Institute of Learning and Teaching at Nottiingham Trent University and the University of Surrey Centre for Management Learning.


Research

I am an interpretivist researcher who is fascinated by how individuals make sense of their working lives.  Accordingly I have conducted research on a range of topics, including:

  • Talent management

  • Identity and narrative

  • Global Mobility

  • Ethics and corporate social responsibility

  • Strategy and power

Conferences:

I have presented at a number of international conferences, including:

International Leadership Association (ILA) (2019); Academy of Management Conference (2018; 2014; 2013), The International Professional Doctorates Conference (2016; 2018), British Academy of Management Conference (2018; 2017; 2016), Gender, Work & Organization Conference (2016), Human Resource International Conference (HRIC), Sydney (2016), The Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Conference (2013).

Academic Journal Referee:

Human Relations, Human Resource Management Journal, Organization Studies, The International Journal

of Human Resource Management, Human Resource Management Review, Industrial Relations Review,

Personnel Review, Thunderbird International Review, International Journal of Workplace Health

Management.


Editorial Board:


International Human Resource Management Journal.

Esteem Factors:

Secretary of the HRM SiG, British Academy of Management (2019- )

Co-Track Chair of the HRM SiG, British Academy of Management (2016-2019)

Member of the Executive DBA Council (EDBAC) Election Council 2018

Member of PhD judging panel for the Academy of Management, Human Resource International Conference, Sydney 2016.

Invited Speaker: ‘Maximising Outcomes for the DBA’, Association of Business Schools & British Academy of Management Doctorate in Business Administration Symposium, Cranfield October 2016.

Member of UK HR Division Academy of Management (AoM) research project entitled ‘International Aspects of Job design’ 2016-

Stream Covenor  ‘Gendered career paths in uncertain and insecure international environments’. Gender, Work & Organisation Conference 2016.

Member of British Academy of Management (BAM) organising committee for BAM/Centre for People, Innovation and Performance. Publishing in 4* journals event 2016.

Reviewer for British Academy of Management (BAM) Centre for People, Innovation and Performance. Publishing in 4* journals event 2015.

 

Teaching

I am currently teaching on HRM and the Future of Work at UG level and the Global HRM module on the MSc HRM. I supervise students at UG and PG (taught) levels.

I am currently supervising two PhD students and am interested in supervising doctoral projects relating to issues of global mobility, identity, ethics and CSR and talent.

Publications