Prof Carole Elliott

Prof Carole Elliott

Professor of Leadership Development

Researcher profile

Email
cje7@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Biography

Carole joined the School in October 2024, and has previously held positions at the universities of Lancaster, Hull, Durham, Roehampton, and Sheffield. She is Professor of Leadership Development,  Visiting Professor at Copenhagen Business School, and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at Rennes School of Business.  In 2022 Carole was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy of Management, and she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Over the last 15 years Carole's research has been funded by the ESRC, The Leverhulme Trust, and the British Academy. In 2016 with Professors Valerie Stead, Sharon Mavin, and Dr Jannine Williams  she co-edited Gender, Media and Organization: Challenging Mis(s)Representations of Women Leaders and Managers, which was the first collection that higlighted the socio-cultural impact of the media on women leaders' legitimacy. Recent collections that Carole has co-edited are: Handbook of Research Methods on Gender and Management; and Genderwashing in Leadership. 

Carole is recognised as a leading scholar in critical human resource development, which couples organisation studies with adult education. She has received several awards for her work in this area from the Academy of Human Resource Development, including: Laura Bierema Excellence in Critical HRD Award (2020), and Outstanding HRD Scholar Award (2022). Her co-authored book Human Resource Development: Critical Perspectives and Practices received the 2023 R.Wayne Pace Book of the Year Award. Carole currently co-Chairs the University Forum for Human Resource Development. 

Carole is a former editor-in-chief of Human Resource Development International, and associate editor of Gender, Work and Organisation, She sits on the editorial boards of several journals, including: Human Relations; Management Learning; Leadership, and Human Resource Development Quarterly. 

Teaching

MN1001 Organizations and Society 

MN4100 Contemporary Issues in Management

Research areas

Carole is a management and leadership learning scholar. She specialises in gender and leadership, and critical human resource development, research. Current research focusses on leadership for sustainability in a variety of empirical contexts. Her empirical work adopts qualtative interpretivist methods to understand power relations within, and across, organised settings.  

Selected publications

 

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