Professor of Organisation and Consumption 

Contact Details  

• Tel: +44 (0) 116 252 3891
• Email: j.brewis@le.ac.uk
• Office: Room 310, Level 3, Ken Edwards Building
• Office Hours: See office door for details 

Biography

Jo has an undergraduate degree and a doctorate from UMIST, and worked at the Universities of Portsmouth and Essex before joining the School of Management in August 2004. 

Research Interests

The intersections between the body, identity, sexuality, consumption, culture and processes of organisng, as recently articulated in work on topics such as chavinism on the British gay scene; intimacy, motherhood and life-work ‘balance’; and discourses of Same and Other around culture and professionalism in Aotearoa New Zealand social work. These foci have been conceptualized using a framework derived in the main from Michel Foucault and Georges Bataille; and empirically explored via semi-structured interviews, focus groups and analysis of secondary texts such as films and television series.

PhD Supervision

Three doctoral students: Ao Chen, Laura Freeman and Hayley Harris 

Administrative Responsibilities

Deputy Head of School
Director of PhD Programme
Director of Postgraduate Research, College of Social Science

Most Recent and Forthcoming Publications

Brewis, J. (forthcoming) ‘New intimacy, new motherhood, same old work?’, in E. Jeanes, D. Knights and P.Y. Martin (eds) Handbook of Gender, Work and Organization, Chichester: Wiley.

Brewis, J. and Bowring, M. (in press) ‘Feminism’, in M. Tadajewski, P. Maclaran, E. Parsons and M. Parker (eds) Key Concepts in Critical Management Studies, London: Sage, pp. 114-117.

Brewis, J. and Jack, G. (2010) ‘Consuming chavs: the ambiguous politics of gay chavinism’, Sociology, 44 (2): 1-18.

Bowring, M.A. and Brewis, J. (2009) 'Truth and consequences: managing lesbian and gay identity in the Canadian workplace', Equal Opportunities International, 28 (5): 361-377.

Brewis, J. and Jack, G. (2009) 'Culture: broadening the critical repertoire' in H. Willmott, M. Alvesson and T. Woodbridge (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Critical Management Studies, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 232-250. 

Other

Chair of Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism
Associate editor: Gender, Work and Organization; Organization
Editorial board member: Culture and Organization; International Journal of Work, Organization and Emotion; Organization Studies; TAMARA: Journal of Critical Organizational Inquiry
Member of Peer Review College, ESRC
 

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