Professor Christine Coupland

BSc Business and Psychology (Derby), PGCHE Certificate of Higher Education (Nottingham), PhD Organisational Behaviour (Nottingham)

  • Professor of Organisational Behaviour

Expertise: organisational identities; career sense-making; discourse at work

Christine Coupland studied Psychology and Business Psychology at the University of Derby, having worked for a number of years in Human Resource Management. Her PhD was a study of newcomer transition into management featuring contributions to the areas of, careers, identity and graduate socialization into the workplace.

Christine’s intellectual interests centre on the on issues of identity and language, drawing upon theoretical perspectives from organisation studies and constructionist social psychology. More specifically, the individual in interaction with the institution of work, and organisations in intersection with their various audiences have been the foci of her past research.

Christine was awarded the BAM research medal in 2017 for sustained impact on research of identities at work. She continues to be influential within the field of identities research, which is illustrated though co-editing special issues, e.g., Barros, M., Alcadipani, R., Coupland, C. and Brown, A.D. (forthcoming, 2022) ‘Online identities: the struggle for the digital self in and around organizations.’ Organization; Coupland C., Cutcher L., Beech N. and Brown A.D. (forthcoming, 2021) ‘Identity and learning (not) to be different.’ Management Learning.

More recently, Christine’s influence has moved to the European conference arena. Since July 2018 she has co-convened a stream at EGOS conferences each year.