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Staff Profile

Dr Dean Pierides

Senior Lecturer in Management and Organisations

Background

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.

Dean has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania and a Graduate Diploma in Education, Master of Education and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Melbourne.

Research

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

My research has focused on: (1) government agencies and other organisations that are related to emergencies, disasters and crises, whether natural, industrial, financial or otherwise; (2) financialization and the introduction of financially-oriented algorithms to organisations that are not primarily finance organisations - e.g. healthcare organisations such as the UK National Health Service; and, (3) the use of statistical and probabilistic knowledge in research and reasoning.

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.

Publications