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Dr Brigid Carroll
Senior Lecturer
Department:
Management and International Business
Address:Owen G Glenn Building
12 Grafton Road
Auckland
Faculty:Business & Economics
Phone: +64 9 373 7599 Ext. 84285
Email: b.carroll@auckland.ac.nz

History
Brigid is a Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Organisation Studies in the Department of Management and International Business, and both a Leadership Design/ Development Facilitator and a Senior Research Fellow for Excelerator: The NZ Leadership Institute.

Prior to taking up an appointment in at the University in Auckland in 1999, Brigid had a career in secondary education and taught English at Avondale collage and was Head of English at Rangitoto College. Her entry into management, leadership and organisations came from doing a MBA at Fordham University in New York and discovering the intersection of literary and organisational theory in discourse/ narrative approaches to organisations.

Consequently she completed a PhD in identity, narrative and the management of professionals in 2002 and since then has taught organisation theory to undergraduates and leadership to executive and postgraduate classes. She is also part of an Institute team that delivers nationwide long-term leadership development and has worked with corporates, professional organisations, community groupings and youth.

Her research interests lie primarily in identity work, critical leadership studies and narrative/ discourse theory. She is interested in leadership as predominately a discourse and identity and is exploring how it is articulated and shaped in different organisational contexts. She draws on extensive leadership development data and is interested in the construction of a leadership identity and the trajectory of different development/ learning experiences. She has written recently on the management/ leadership relationship, the re-theorisation of role, different narrative/ discourse approaches, leadership as practice, and the evolution of leadership and heroism. Her research draws on an interpretive/ poststructuralist epistemology and discourse/ narrative methodology.
Qualifications:
2002 Doctor of Philosophy, Management and Employment Relations University of Auckland
1998 MBA in Management, Beta Gamma Sigma (Honours) Fordham University, Graduate School of Business, New York, NY
1988 Graduate Diploma of Secondary Teaching Auckland College of Education, Auckland, New Zealand
1987 Master of Arts, First Class Honours Auckland University, Auckland, New Zealand
1985 Bachelor of Arts Auckland University, Auckland, New Zealand
Special Interests:
Identity work
Leadership theory, practice and development
Narrative/ discourse theory
Positions Held:
FromToInstitutionPosition Held
1999 2000 University of Auckland Assistant Lecturer
1994 1997 Rangitoto College Head of English
1991 1994 Avondale College Assistant Head of English
1988 1991 Avondale College Teacher of English
Awards:
2002 Best Paper Research Methods Award for Barry D. ,Carroll, B., Hansen H., ‘To text or context? endotextual versus exotextual approaches to narrative organizational research’. Presented at Academy of Ma
2002 Finalist for Carolyn Dexter Award for Barry D. ,Carroll, B., Hansen H., ‘To text or context? endotextual versus exotextual approaches to narrative organizational research’. Presented at Academy of Man
1987 Senior Prize in English, University of Auckland
Service:
2000 Lecturer in ‘Management and the Arts’ at Whitecliffe college of Arts and Design
2005 (ongoing) Member of AACORN (arts, aesthetic, creativity and organization research network)
2005 (ongoing) Member of facilitation team NZ Leadership Institute including Lead Facilitator for Future Leaders programme (2005 -2006) and Scion Ensis programme (2007-08)
2006 (ongoing) Member of Women in Leadership Team (award winning university wide initiative to support general and academic women staff into leadership roles)
2007 Guest facilitator for NZ Women in Leadership Programme (nationwide programme for senior academic women throughout New Zealand).
2007 Guest facilitator for University of Auckland Aspiring Heads of Department Programme.
2007 Member of NZ Leadership Institute Committee advising Hui Tomatua on ‘Leadership and governance’ business plan.
Teaching:
2008 Busadmin 781 Leadership and Ethics
2008 Mmgmt 724 Leadership
Selected Publications:
Refereed Journal Articles
2008 CARROLL, B. LEVY, L. ‘Defaulting to management: Leadership defined by what it is not‘, Organization, 15(1), 75-96.
2008 SIMPSON, B. CARROLL, B. ‘Reviewing role in processes of identity construction‘, Organization, 15(1), 29-50.
2006 BARRY, D. CARROLL, B. HANSEN, H. ‘To text or context? Endotextual, exotextual, and multi-textual approaches to narrative and discursive organizational studies‘, Organization Studies, 27(8), 1091-1110.
2003 MCMORLAND, J. CARROLL, B. COPAS, S. PRINGLE, J. ‘Enhancing the practice of PhD supervisory relationships through first and second-person action research/peer partnership inquiry‘, Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 4(2)
Conference Paper
2007 CARROLL, B. PARKER, P. ‘Leadership and boredom: The undiscussable imperative‘
2007 CARROLL, B. MCLAREN, A. ‘The convergence of leadership and inovation: Leading time‘
2005 CARROLL, B. LEVY, L. ‘Assuming nothing: A conversation between academia, developers and participants around their leadership assumptions‘, 1-3.
2005 CARROLL, B. LEVY, L. ‘Becoming strategic? Understanding the relationship between strategy and leadership in leaders' thinking‘, 1-9.
2004 CARROLL, B. ‘A narrative cartography: Narrative, identity and spatiality‘, 1-31.
2002 CARROLL, B. ‘Not managers: Identity constructions of professionals who manage‘, 1-35.
2002 BARRY, D. CARROLL, B. HANSEN, H. ‘To text or context? Endotextual and exotextual considerations in organization studies‘, 58 (62), 1-27.
2001 PARKER, P. CARROLL, B. ‘Circles of identity and society: Using narrative to research agency and structure‘, 2001, 1-13.