Staff Profile
Dr Susan Kirk
Deputy Subject Group Head, Leadership, Work and Organisation and Senior Lecturer in International Human Resource Management
- Email: susan.kirk@ncl.ac.uk
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 a Senior Lecturer in International Human Resource Management and the Research, Scholarship and Impact Co-Lead for the Subject Group. Susan is also the Co-Lead for the Transport, Society and Place theme in the Transport and Mobility NUCoRE. 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 7 doctoral students to completion.
Susan is a member of the editorial board for Work, Employment and Society and The International Human Resource Management Journal. She 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 Work, Employment and Society, Global Networks, The International Journal of Human Resource Management, Human Resource Management Review and the European Management Review.
Currently, she involved in several projects including a project exploring the global mobility of academics; research examining identity, place and mobility in the Derbyshire Peak District and a project exploring the research culture within the University. She is also exploring hybrid identities of Advanced Clinical Practitioners with a colleague at University College London and Gdansk University.
Susan is a member of the International Leadership Association (ILA) and an elected member of the ILA Women's Senior Executive Council. She 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.
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:
Work, Employment and Society, 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:
Work, Employment and Society and the International Human Resource Management Journal.
Esteem Factors:
Secretary of the HRM SiG, British Academy of Management (2019- )
Theme Co-Lead Transport, Society and Place in the Mobility and Transport NUCoRE (2021-)
Member of the Senior Executive Leadership Team of the International Leadership Association Women's Council (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.
I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and having been in academia for 28 years. I have many years of experience teaching at doctoral, PGT, UG and corporate levels. I have extensive experience of module and course design and quality assurance processes.
I am currently teaching on the Managing Change and the HRM and the Future of Work modules at UG level, the Global HRM module on the MSc HRM and Leading Organisational Change on the MBA. I supervise students at UG, PG (taught) and doctoral levels.
I have 7 doctoral completions and am currently supervising three PhD students and am interested in supervising doctoral projects relating to issues of global mobility, identity, ethics and CSR and talent.
- Ridgeway M, Kirk S. Home Sweet Home: Creating a Sense of Place in Globally Mobile Working Lives. Global Networks 2021, (ePub ahead of Print).
- Kirk S. Sticks and Stones: The Naming of Global Talent. Work, Employment and Society 2020, n/a, n/a.
- Kirk S. Identity, Glass Borders and Globally Mobile Female Talent. Journal of Global Mobility 2019, 7(3), 285-299.
- Painter-Morland M, Kirk S, Deslandes G, Tansley C. Talent Management: The Good, the Bad, and the Possible. European Management Review 2019, 16(1), 135-146.
- Tansley C, Kirk S. You've Been Framed—Framing Talent Mobility in Emerging Markets. Thunderbird International Business Review 2018, 60(1), 39-51.
- Tansley C, Kirk S. Exploratory learners, HR ambidexterity and e-HRM projects. In: Helen Shipton, Pawan Budhwar, Paul Sparrow, Alan Brown, ed. Human Resource Management, Innovation and Performance. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp.130-144.
- Kirk S. Career capital in global Kaleidoscope Careers: the role of HRM. International Journal of Human Resource Management 2016, 27(6), 681-697.
- Tansley C, Kirk S, Williams H, Barton H. Tipping the scales: ambidexterity practices on e-HRM projects. Employee Relations 2014, 36(4), 398-414.
- Caven V, Kirk S, Wang-Cowham C. Expatriation and repatriation: case study in the Asia-Pacific. In: International Human Resource Management. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014, pp.179-193.
- Tansley C, Kirk S, Fisher C. Navigating the ethical maze through design action research. European Journal of Training and Development 2014, 38(5), 456-482.
- Tansley C, Kirk S, Tietze S. The currency of talent management—A reply to “talent management and the relevance of context: Towards a pluralistic approach”. Human Resource Management Review 2013, 23(4), 337-340.
- Myers J, Kirk S. Managing Process of Human Resource Development. In: Leopold, J. & Harris, L, ed. The Strategic Managing of Human Resources. 2009.
- Kirk S, Leopold J. Employee Involvement, Participation and Communication. In: Leopold, J., Harris, L. & Watson, T, ed. The Strategic Managing of Human Resources. 2005. In Preparation.
- Kirk S, Leopold J. Employee Involvement, Participation and Communication. In: Leopold, J., Harris, L. & Watson, ed. Strategic Human Resourcing: Principles, Perspectives and Practices in HRM. 1999. In Preparation.
- Kirk S. Sticks and Stones: the Naming of Global Talent. Work, Employment and Society 2020, 00(0), 1-18. In Preparation.
- BalaKuki M, Kirk S, Ridgway M. Social capital, language and host country nationals (HCNs) as global talent. Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance 2021, 8(4), 370-386.
- Howe-Walsh L, Kirk S. Self-initiated expatriates and the role of International Human Resource Management. In: Andresen, M; Brewster, C; Suutari, V, ed. Self-Initiated Expatriates in Context. Recognizing Space, Time and Institutions. New York: Routledge, 2020, pp.195-213.
- Kirk S, Howe-Walsh L. Global Mobility in the Asia-Pacific Region and Role of Talent Management and International HRM. In: Sinha, P; Patel, P; Prikshat, V, ed. International HRM and Development in Emerging Market Multinationals. London and New York: Routledge, 2022.
- Kirk S, Howe-Walsh L. Global Mobility in the Asia-Pacific Region and Role of Talent Management and International HRM. In: Sinha, P., Parth, P. & Prikshat, V, ed. Emerging Market Multinationals and Strategic Management. Routledge, 2021, pp.16.
- Kirk S, Howe-Walsh L, Scurry T. Guest editorial - Re-imagining GTM? Considering the implications of context for research and practice. Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance 2021, 8(4), 349-352.