Staff Profile

I have been working in the education sector since 1996. Throughout my career I have worked with a wide range of students and I am passionate about motivating students to achieve their full potential both during their time at university and in their future careers. During my time in the education sector, I have led a number of funded projects and initiatives related to curriculum design, development and enhancement.   

I joined Newcastle University Business School in June 2019 as a Senior Lecturer in Management Practice. I am the Degree Programme Director for the N200 BA (Hons) Business Management programme. I also teach on a number of undergraduate and postgraduate  modules. I bring my  extensive knowledge and experience into the curriculum to facilitate a better student understanding of management research, theory and practice.  

Prior to joining Newcastle University Business School, I was a Senior Lecturer in Management and Leadership at Northumbria University where I led the MBA suite of programmes. Before moving to the Newcastle area, I worked at Teesside University for twelve years. During my time at Teesside, I held a range of senior roles including programme lead for the CIPD accredited MA HRM programme and the programme director role for the MBA suite of programmes. During my time at Teesside, I also led on a range of teaching and learning initiatives, widening participation projects, transnational education projects, and student experience initiatives. 

Prior to joining the higher education sector, I held a number of senior management roles within the further education sector.  I led on a number of strategic curriculum development and quality enhancement. projects which required significant multi-disciplinary partnership working and transformational leadership. 

Before joining the education sector, I worked in the utilities sector and held a number of senior project quality roles.  

I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Chartered Association of Business Schools Certified Management & Business Educator. 

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During my time in the education sector, I have led on a number of funded and non-funded research projects.

The focus of my academic research is stress, emotion and coping. I am interested in how our environment influences what we consider to be stressful and the coping strategies and behaviours we adopt to deal with stressful conditions. Through my research, I have explored themes such as adaptation and resilience; coping resources and reserves; recourse to intervention strategies; how stress is conceptualised and discussed; and readiness and resistance to change. 

I am currently researching how long-term exposure to stressful environments influences our perceptions of stressful encounters and informs our coping strategies.  For example, does long-term exposure build up our resilience or does it deplete our coping energies and reserves? And what coping resources do we draw on throughout this process? 

I also have a passion for developing qualitative researchers and I have published a number of research papers and book chapters focusing specifically on the emotional challenges that qualitative researchers encounter.  

Additionally, I have undertaken a number of funded practitioner research projects focused on enhancing business school curricula, enhancing learning and teaching practices, and widening participation in higher education.

I have supervised many undergraduate and postgraduate research students on a range of Human Resources and Organisational Behaviour topics. 

I teach across a range of HRM, research methods, and skills development modules at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. 

Undergraduate Modules

BUS1016: Academic and Professional Skills

BUS1015: Management and the Organisation 

BUS2040: Human Resource Management and the Future of Work

BUS2018: Research Methods

BUS2035: HR to Improve Working Lives 

Postgraduate Modules

NBS8288: The Reflexive Human Resource Practitioner

I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Chartered Association of Business Schools Certified Management & Business Educator. 

• Articles

  • Mazzetti AS. Mind the Gap: The Case for Adopting an Ethno-drama Writing Style in sensitive Organisational Ethnography. Irish Journal of Anthropology (IJA) 2019, 22(1), 72-86.
  • Mazzetti AS. An exploration of the emotional impact of organisational ethnography. Journal of Organizational Ethnography 2016, 5(3), 304-316.
  • Mazzetti AS. Children of the Troubles: The need to explore the long-term impact on appraisal and coping. Queen's Political Review 2015, 3(2), 54-64.
  • Mazzetti AS, Blenkinsopp J. Evaluating a visual timeline methodology for appraisal and coping research. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology 2012, 85(4), 649-665.

• Book Chapters

  • Mazzetti AS. Using Participant-Produced Drawings as an Alternative to Photographs in Ethnographic Research. In: Dodd, S, ed. Ethics and Integrity in Visual Research Methods. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020, pp.29-42.
  • Mazzetti AS. Stepping off the career ladder: exploring the impact of career shocks on women’s career decisions in the UK. In: P. R. Kadiyil, A. Frorrier and M. B. Arthur, ed. Career Dynamics in a Global World: Indian and Western Perspectives. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020, pp.80-95.
  • Mazzetti AS. The Emotional Nature of Qualitative Research. In: Ciesielska M; Jemielniak D, ed. Qualitative Methodologies in Organization Studies. Volume I Theories and New Approaches. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
  • Mazzetti AS. Growing Up with the Troubles: Reading and Negotiating Space. In: Svasek, M; Komarova, M, ed. Ethnographies of Movement, Sociality and Space: Place-Making in the New Northern Ireland. Berg Publishing, 2018.
  • Mazzetti AS. Occupational stress research: Considering the emotional impact for the qualitative researcher. . In: Perrewé, PL; Rosen, CC; Halbesleben, JRB, ed. The Role of Emotion and Emotion Regulation in Job Stress and Well Being. Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, 2013, pp.283-310.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

  • Mazzetti A, Reissner S. Developing more diverse and inclusive capstones for undergraduate management and business students. In: Curriculum Design Symposium: The Hidden Curriculum : Unpacking the academic practices critical for student success. 2019, York, England: Advance HE.
  • Mazzetti AS. In Sickness and in Health. In: International Conference on the Changing Nature of Careers: Implications for a Sustainable World. 2018, Jamshedpur, India: Xavier School of Management.
  • Mazzetti AS. The invisible sun: an ethnographic exploration of coping resilience and resource depletion. In: Multi-disciplinary Standpoints on Conflict Transformation. 2017, George Mitchell Institute, Queen's University Belfast.
  • Mazzetti AS. The Ethnographic Rollercoaster: The Emotional Impact of Ethnographic Research. In: 11th Annual Ethnography Symposium. 2016, University of the West of England, Bristol.
  • Mazzetti AS. ‘Growing Up with the Troubles: Reading and Negotiating Space’. In: Movement, Space and Conflict Symposium. 2016, Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation and Social Justice, Belfast.
  • Mazzetti AS. The long-term impact of the Troubles on stress appraisal and coping. In: Explorations of Northern Irishness Symposium. 2015, Queens University Belfast.
  • Mazzetti AS. The long-term impact of growing up during the ‘Troubles’ on coping. In: A Peculiar Society? Ireland, 1970s-1990s Symposium. 2015, National University of Ireland, Galway.
  • Mazzetti AS. A Burning Issue: How ‘Stress Talk’ Impacts Recourse to Stress Management Interventions within the UK Fire and Rescue Service. In: 9th International Workshop on Management & Language. 2015, Helsinki: GEM&L (Groupe d'Etudes Management & Langage).
  • Mazzetti AS. ‘Mind the Gaps’: Exploring conflicting expectations and values created by organisational change. In: European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management 8th Colloquium on Organizational Change and Development. 2013, Ghent.
  • Mazzetti AS. Evaluating a visual timeline methodology for appraisal and coping research. In: Invisio Symposium: Advancing Visual Research in Organization Studies. 2012, University of Essex.
  • Mazzetti AS. Using autoethnography to enrich our understanding of stress as it is felt and coped with. In: Ethnography Symposium. 2011, Cardiff.
  • Mazzetti AS. Using visual research techniques in careers research. In: European Academy of Management (EURAM) Conference. 2010, Rome.
  • Mazzetti AS. The Dream Factory: Supporting managers during difficult change initiatives. In: British Academy of Management, Leadership and Leadership Development Special Interest Group. 2010, BAM, London.
  • Mazzetti AS. The influence of occupational and industry sector culture on stress appraisal and coping. In: 24th Cardiff Employment Research Unit Annual Conference. 2009, Cardiff.

• Online Publications

  • Mazzetti A. Using Digital Reflective Journaling to Enhance Qualitative Data Analysis. London: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2022. Available at: https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529604337.
  • Mazzetti AS. Not Quite the Same: A Personal Ecology Perspective on the Enduring Impact of Growing up with the Troubles. 2021. Available at: https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/not-quite-the-same. Submitted.
  • Mazzetti AS. To Tape or Not to Tape? Reflections on the Complexities of Taping Ethnographic Interviews. SAGE, 2019. Available at: https://doi.org/10.4135/9781526477347.
  • Mazzetti AS. Using a visual timeline method in stress research. Sage Publications Ltd, 2014. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/978144627305013512950.