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Raffaella Valsecchi

Lecturer

Contact Details

Room: EG 305k
Brunel University
Uxbridge
UB8 3PH
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0)1895 267570
Email: Raffaella.Valsecchi@brunel.ac.uk

Summary

Dr. Raffaella Valsecchi is Lecturer of Critical Management at Brunel Business School. Prior to this she worked as a Senior Lecturer at Greenwich Business School and as a Research Fellow for an ESRC funded project at Royal Holloway-University of London. She is a member of European Group for Organisational Studies (EGOS) and the British Academy of Management (BAM). Raffaella is also an associate member of the Centre for Research into Emotion Work and Employment Studies (CREWES). Her research interests cover the sociology of work with a particular focus on home-teleworking, tele-nursing, call-centres work, control in workplaces and the new developments of the health sector.

Teaching and Research

Teaching

Critical Perspectives in Management
Organisational Behaviour and Analysis
Introduction to Management Inquiry
Issues and Controversies in Management Project

Research Interests

Organisation Studies
Non-standard forms of employment
Work-life balance
New developments health sector

Research Centres

Work and Organisation Research Centre (WORC)

Publications

Journal Papers

(2012) VALSECCHI, R., Valsecchi, R., Wise, S., Mueller, F. and Smith, C., The practice of teamwork in health industry call centres, Employee Relations 34 (3) : 288- 305

(2008) Mueller, F., Valsecchi, R., Smith, C., Gabe, J. and Elston, MA., 'We are nurses, we are supposed to care for people': professional values among nurses in NHS Direct call centres, New Technology, Work and Employment 23 (1-2) : 2- 16

(2008) Smith, C., Valsecchi, R., Mueller, F. and Gabe, J., Knowledge and the discourse of labour process transformation: nurses and the case of NHS Direct for England, Work, Employment and Society 22 (4) : 581- 599

(2007) Wise, S., Smith, C., Valsecchi, R., Mueller, F. and Gabe, J., Controlling working time in the ward and on the line, Employee Relations 29 (4) : 352- 366

(2006) Valsecchi, R., Visible moves and invisible bodies: the case of teleworking in an Italian call centre, New Technology, Work and Employment 21 (2) : 123- 138

Conference Papers

(2008) Valsecchi, R., Control and emotional responses of home-teleworking, 3rd Australasian Caucus of the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism (ACSCOS)

(2008) Valsecchi, R., Complex and ambivalent cultural dynamics in controlling home-teleworkers, 24th EGOS Colloquium

(2008) Valsecchi, R., Teleworking and the public sector: Is it really a privilege?, Work Matters: 26th Annual International Labour Process Conference