Dr Melissa Tyler
BsocSc, Birmingham; PhD, Derby Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour Research GroupSenior Lecturer in Organisation StudiesPublicationsM.J.Tyler@lboro.ac.uk
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Melissa joined the Business School in July 2003 having taught previously at Glasgow Caledonian University (Sociology) and University College, Scarborough (Social and Cultural Studies). Melissa received her first degree in Cultural Studies from the University of Birmingham and her PhD in Sociology from the University of Derby. This work focused on the recruitment, training and supervision of flight attendants and drew attention to the management of their ‘organisational bodies’ as material signifiers of a corporate ethos. Melissa brings a critical, feminist perspective and an interest in relatively neglected themes in HRM - such as body management, emotion and gender - to the teaching she does on various undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Melissa also contributes a session on research ethics to the School’s PhD taught programme.
Melissa has published on the body, emotional labour, sexuality, aesthetics, postmodernism and organisation theory in various journals and edited collections, including Gender, Work and Organization; Sociology; Organization; and Sexualities and Human Relations. She is the co-author of Work, Postmodernism and Organization (Sage, 2001) and The Body, Culture and Society: An Introduction (Open University Press, 2000).
Melissa’s current research interests are in the management of everyday life; childhood, gender and consumer culture; the concept of ‘corporate anorexia’ and (most recently) organisations and photography. She is currently working on a text (with Philip Hancock) on the management of everyday life and an introductory sociology textbook (with Pamela Abbot and Claire Wallace) on feminist perspectives.
