Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour
Elena Pagani is a Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour at UCA Business School for the Creative Industries.
Bio
Coming from an activist background in the social and solidarity economy, Elena's education covers the areas of Management and Organisation studies, Information Systems and Philosophy. Having just finished her PhD with the University of Bristol, she joined UCA. Elena has taught the units of Organisational Behaviour, Management and Organisation, Global Business Environment, and Creative People and Organisations.
Elena has worked for several years as a Digital Learning manager and practitioner in the UK. Furthermore, she has co-founded, among other groups, an alternative currency network, an agro-collective and a worker co-operative In Greece.
Research statement
Elena's research is broadly themed around prefigurative politics in Organization Studies. The main focus of her research is interpersonal interactions and their transformative potential toward social change in worker co-operatives as alternative forms of organizing. Elena's doctoral research was on the inter-relation between empathy and the formation of subjectivities to explore processes of horizontality. She has experience in qualitative, creative, and co-produced methods, and ethnographic, intersubjective, and intersectional methodologies.
Elena is affiliated to the Peer2Peer Lab, an interdisciplinary research collective focused on the commons.