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Staff Profile

Dr Dean Pierides

Senior Lecturer in Management and Organisations

Background

Profile

Dean Pierides is Senior Lecturer in Management and Organisations at Newcastle University Business School.

Prior to this he was Lecturer in Organisations and Society at the University of Manchester, Visiting Scholar at Copenhagen Business School, Lecturer in Business and Management at the University of Stirling, Research Fellow in Organisations, Society and Markets at the University of Melbourne, Konrad Boehmer Research Fellow also at the University of Melbourne.

Roles and responsibilities

Qualifications and certificates

  • PhD, University of Melbourne, Australia
  • MEd, University of Melbourne, Australia
  • DipEd, University of Melbourne, Australia
  • BA, University of Pennylvania, United States

Memberships


Research

Current work

My research is primarily about how organisations and institutions deal with uncertainty. This is relevant for all areas of management and organisation but I am particularly interested in 'surprises' - events that defy our expectations because they are wholly unanticipated.

Main expertise

My research has focused on

  • government agencies and other organisations that are related to emergencies, disasters and crises, whether natural, industrial, financial or otherwise
  • the contribution of new technologies to the financialisation of organisations that are not primarily finance organisations - e.g. algorithms in healthcare organisations such as the UK National Health Service (NHS)
  • the use of statistical and probabilistic knowledge in research and social scientific reasoning

Other expertise

My fieldwork is primarily ethnographic but I am interested in a broad range of qualitative methods and I study the sociology, history, and philosophy of quantitative methods, especially their relationship to ethics.

Future research

I am currently also researching

  • how diagnostic reasoning takes shape in different professions
  • changes in the organisational purpose of government agencies, charities and social enterprises

Postgraduate supervision

I am currently available to supervise research students in all areas related to my research

Teaching

Undergraduate

Management and organisation

Postgraduate

Advanced International Business Management Dissertation (Dual Award with University of Groningen)

Master of Business Administration

MBA Individual project

Doctoral

Research practice in management and business studies

Publications