Background

Background

Before joining the Business School in May 2011, Victoria worked for 9 years in commercial research and consultancy for the public sector, local government and non-departmental public bodies. Prior to this, she worked as a researcher for an audience development agency and as a learning support assistant within a local comprehensive school.

Module Leader: BUS 3051

LWO UG Senior Tutor 

DPD for Joint Honours Programmes

Previous Roles and Responsibilities

Research Assistant to the REF Taskforce, Newcastle University Business School

Research Assistant to Professor Charles Harvey, History and Practice of Entrepreneurial Philanthropy

Research Assistant to Dr Stefanie Reissner, ESRC project 'Managerial Storytelling in Practice: Dynamics and Implications

Qualifications

BA (Hons) Anthropology

MA Management

PGCert Academic Studies and Practice

PGCert Research Training

PhD Organisation Studies

Other activities

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Board Secretary to the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism (SCOS)

Member of the editorial board of Business Ethics: A European Review

Member of the International Leadership Association Women's Leadership Committee and Communications Subcommittee

Research

Research Interests

My current research interests are focused around: 

• Knowledge: its generation, uses, and violations (epistemic violence, epistemic injustice)
• Morality and ethics: the expression / suppression of moral emotions
• Social justice: equality, equity, diversities, inclusion / exclusion

• Implications for freedom in terms of restriction and liberation across work boundaries (employee/employer perspectives)
• Metaphor and story as a way to resist their impact (NDAs murder knowledge, ghost stories remain)
• Tensions between secrecy and transparency, understanding the space between the two
• Voice – muting, silencing

My PhD used Bourdieusian theory to examine how socio-economic order is challenged by different forms of organizing, power relations and decision making in global debates.

In my previous research and consultancy role, I managed and delivered fieldwork on a range of projects for a number of clients. Example reports for which I was lead author are as follows.   

Scottish Arts Council: Review and Evaluation of the Quality Framework http://www.scottisharts.org.uk/1/information/publications/1005963.aspx

Scottish Arts Council: Monitoring and Evaluation of the Cultural Co-ordinators in Scottish Schools Programme http://www.scottisharts.org.uk/1/information/publications/research.aspx 

Scottish Arts Council: Final Reports - Cultural Coordinators in Scottish Schools Cultural Co-ordinators in Scottish Schools Programme: Monitoring Report - Executive Summary 

pfeg: Evaluation of What Money Means http://www.pfeg.org/projects-funding/what-money-means-primary-schools/what-money-means-evaluation

Teaching

Victoria has a keen interest in teaching and has previous experience of delivering learning in classroom and workshop settings. She has completed the Postgraduate Certificate of Academic Studies and Practice and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Publications

• Pagan V. The murder of knowledge and the ghosts that remain: non-disclosure agreements and their effects. Culture and Organization 2021, epub ahead of print.
• Pagan V. Fantasy to (evade) order: Vicarious schadenfreude. Ephemera 2020. In Press.
• Yarrow E, Pagan V. Reflections on front‐line medical work during COVID‐19 and the embodiment of risk. Gender, Work and Organization 2020, epub ahead of print.
• Pagan V. 'The challenge is who rules the world': Accounts and implications of transnational governance interactions. International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics 2020, 14(4), 344-362.
• Pagan V. Being and becoming a "good" qualitative researcher? Liminality and the risk of limbo. Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management 2019, 14(1), 75-90.
• Vincent S, Pagan V. Entrepreneurial agency and field relations: A Realist Bourdieusian Analysis. Human Relations 2019, 72(2), 188-216.
• Pagan V, McGuigan E. Lecturer-Student Collaboration as Responsible Management Education: Benefits and Challenges. Journal of Business Ethics Education 2019, 16.
• Pagan V. Integrating Gender Equality into Business and Management Education. Gender in Management 2018, 33(1), 80-84.
• Pagan V. Rethinking capitals: global capital beyond the financial. ICAEW, 2016. Available at: http://www.icaew.com/~/media/corporate/files/technical/sustainability/rethinking%20capitals/tecplm14996-1%20victoria%20pagan.ashx.
• Pagan V. What does it mean to be a dangerous woman in the workplace?. University of Edinburgh, 2016. Available at: http://dangerouswomenproject.org/2016/08/15/workplace-inequality/.
• Pagan VK. State of Global Power - Definitions, Distributions and Functions in Our Globalised World. Transnational Institute, 2015. Available at: http://www.tni.org/briefing/definitions-distributions-and-functions-our-globalised-world.
• Reissner SC, Pagan V. Generating employee engagement in a public-private partnership: management communication activities and employee experiences. International Journal of Human Resource Management 2013, 24(14), 2741-2759.
• Reissner SC, Pagan V. Storytelling in management practice: Dynamics and implications. London: Routledge, 2013.
• Reissner SC, Pagan V. Employee engagement: The use of storytelling. London: Chartered Management Institute, 2011. Available at: http://cmilibrary.managers.org.uk/Library/Download.aspx?id=2199.
• Reissner SC, Pagan V, Smith C. 'Our iceberg is melting': Story, metaphor and the management of organisational change. Culture and Organization 2011, 17(5), 417-433.
• Reissner SC, Pagan V. Storytelling in organisational communication. Chartered Management Institute, 2011. Available at: http://www.managers.org.uk.