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Professor Jackie Ford Professor of Leadership and Organization Studies Head of the Human Resource Management group Phone: E-mail: +44 (0)1274 235631 J.M.Ford@bradford.ac.uk Address: Bradford University School of Management Emm Lane Bradford West Yorkshire BD9 4JL

Jackie studied Business Studies and French as an undergraduate in the late 1970s and specialised in personnel management in her final year. She then embarked on her first career in personnel management, culminating in the late 1980s as board-level director of human resources in a large National Health Service organisation. While employed in the NHS, she completed Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development qualifications and, in the early 1990s completed a part-time master's degree in Law and Employment Relations. In 1993 she undertook a Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. Her subsequent PhD research explored questions of leadership, gender, power and identity for managers and organisational leaders, and particularly the impact that work has on the lives of managers in organisations facing major change. Jackie's portfolio of activities involves her in teaching, research, executive education and consultancy in private- and public-sector organisations. Teaching: Jackie has extensive teaching experience, particularly at postgraduate level, in the core subject areas of the sociology of work, gender, leadership, organisation studies and human resource management. She teaches on a range of programmes in the School, including the People in Organisations and Managerial Leadership MBA modules, and undergraduate modules in HRM, Organizational Behaviour and Sociology of Work. She is also engaged in consultancy and leadership development programmes in Executive Education. Research interests: Jackie's particular areas of research interest are associated with leadership, gender, management and organisation studies. She is interested in the further development of post-structuralist and psycho-social research methods and approaches that inform a better understanding of the experiences of working and organisational life. In conjunction with colleagues, she was involved in a major national research project into how organisations in the public and private sectors undertake leadership development for senior managers. Research projects: Jackie's current research studies include: an evaluation of the changing gender profiles of medical students and the impact of increasing numbers of women entrants; a study of recruitment and retention of older staff in public-service organizations; and analysing the impact on individuals of fundamental organisational changes, such as mergers and takeovers. She is currently working with colleagues on a jointly edited book entitled Making Public Services Management Critical and on a monograph entitled Leadership as Identity: Constructions and Deconstructions.