Lecturer in Marketing and Management

Contact Details

• Tel: +44 (0) 116 252 5317
• Email: rjc48@le.ac.uk
• Office: Room 614, Level 6, Ken Edwards Building
• Office Hours: Mondays 9:00am - 11:00am (by appointment)

Biography

Robert joined the School of Management at the University of Leicester as Lecturer in Marketing and Management in 2010.  He holds a BSc (Hons) Management from Lancaster University, an MA Critical Theory awarded by The University of Nottingham, an MSc Management Research from the University of Leicester and was awarded his PhD by the University of Leicester. 

In a gap from his studies, Robert spent three years working in the manufacturing and building services industries in the UK.  In 2006, though, he returned to management research after he was awarded a Critical Management Studies Scholarship by the University of Leicester.  At Leicester he completed an MSc Management Research with distinction. 

In 2008, he was awarded an ESRC Scholarship for his doctoral research project investigating the nature of cultural production in the music industries.  His thesis, supervised by Professor Martin Parker and Dr Nick Ellis was completed within two years and examined by Professor Alan Bryman and Professor Carl Rhodes 

Research Interests

Robert's research focuses on the practices of organization at the psychodynamic and discursive level.  In particular, Robert explores how people make sense of their production and consumption practices.  So far, his research projects have explored how people retreat into fantasy and narcissism in an effort to step outside of organizations, how they use concepts such as 'ethical consumption' and 'labours of love' to take control of their organized experiences and how leaders use discursive tools including jargon and buzzwords to deal with anxieties produced by their position within organizations. 

Alongside Professor Mark Tadajewski Robert is currently exploring the nature of peer-review in management studies.  He is also co-editing an forthcoming special issue of Marketing Theory entitled 'Psychoanalysis and marketing theory: retail therapies, marketing repressions and oedipal consumption' with Dr John Desmond

Academic Awards and Scholarships

2011, Best paper, Academy of Marketing Conference 2011 (Critical marketing stream)

2008, ESRC +3 Open Competition Doctoral Research Scholarship

2008, Visiting PhD Researcher (April-August), Copenhagen Business School

2006, Critical Management Studies Research Scholarship, University of Leicester

Teaching

MN1009 Foundations of Knowledge (BA Management Studies 1st Year Option)

MN2111 Buyer Behaviour (BA Management Studies 2nd Year Option)

MN2122 Managing Research (BA Management Studies 2nd Year Core)

MN3101 Dissertation I (BA Management Studies Core)

MN3101 Dissertation II (BA Management Studies Core)

MN7283 Consumer Behaviour (MSc Marketing Option)

Administrative Responsibilities

Deputy Programme Director BA Management Studies Year One

Most Recent Publications

Cluley, Robert (forthcoming) 'Art words and art worlds: the importance of language use in Becker’s methodology', Cultural Sociology.

Cluley, Robert and Dunne, Stephen (forthcoming) 'From Commodity Fetishism to Commodity Narcissism', Marketing Theory.

Cluley, Robert (2011) 'The Organization of Santa: Fetishism, Ambivalence and Narcissism', Organization, 18(6), 777-792.

Cluley, Robert and Harvie, David (2011) 'Comment on David Graeber's "Consumption"', Current Anthropology, 52(4), 502-503.

Cluley, Robert (2010) ‘Critical Theory’ in Mark Tadajewski, Pauline MacLaran, Elizabeth Parsons and Martin Parker (2010) Key Concepts in Critical Management Studies, pp. 92-96, London: Sage.

Cluley, Robert (2009) ‘Chained to the Grassroots: The Music Industries and DCMS’, Cultural Trends, 18(3), 213-225.

Cluley, Robert (2009) ‘Engineering great moments: The production of live music’, Consumption, Markets & Culture, 12(4), 373-388.

Crook, Charles and Cluley, Robert (2009) ‘The teaching voice on the learning platform: seeking classroom climates within a virtual learning environment’, Learning, Media & Technology, 34(3), 199-213.

Cluley, Robert (2008) 'The Psychoanalytic Relationship between Leaders and Folllowers', Leadership, 4(2), 201-212.
 

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