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Dr Sarah Marks

Lecturer in HRM and Organisational Behaviour, Business

sarah.l.marks@swansea.ac.uk

Available For Postgraduate Supervision

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About

Dr Sarah Marks is a researcher, lecturer and entrepreneur whose interdisciplinary work draws on her deep empirical and theoretical expertise in the field of organisation, entrepreneurship and venture creation.

Her current research interests centre on using critical and intersectional perspectives to explore the conditions under which self-employment, venture creation and alternative work leads to sustaining and sustainable incomes for founders, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Within this broad remit, a particular focus is on the need to break money taboos and ask difficult questions about gender, entrepreneurial poverty, money and values.

Sarah is passionate about applying creative qualitative methods to answer these important questions with the objective of improving equality and diversity work-related outcomes, especially as new and hybrid forms of employment, self-employment and entrepreneurship become the new normal.

Areas Of Expertise

Entrepreneurship
Small business sustainability
Gender and Entrepreneurship
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Intersectionality
Postfeminism

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Teaching Interests

Sarah has taught widely across the management and business field including undergraduate modules on power and organisation, entrepreneurship and managing diversity.

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Supervision

Untitled (current)

PhD

Other supervisor: Dr Samantha Burvill

Taught Modules

MN-3015 Power and Organisation

Organisations are imbued with power. Power is integral to interacting and organising; it defines, constitutes and shapes both people and activities in organisations. As competition, power is intrinsic to our economic system. In the relationships between organisations and the wider society, power takes the forms of regulation of, influence on and ordering of human activities. Understanding the nature and dynamics of power is crucial for future managers. This module investigates the ways in which power takes form, functions and has effects in and through organisations. Students will be asked to identify, analyse and question power and power relations both in terms of theory and in organisational practice. Discussions on, for example, how power and rationality, power and knowledge or power and organisational routines are related inform our examination of power in the organisational context. We will explore a number of attempts to systematically conceptualise and analyse power to understand its heterogeneous nature. This module brings together developments on analysis of power from across the social sciences to management and organisations, and will appeal to students who want to critically explore power as a vehicle for improving their organisational and management skills.

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