Maranda Ridgway
Biographic Data
| ID | 334867 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maranda Ridgway |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maranda |
| FAMILY NAME | Ridgway |
| SIGNATURE | RIDGWAY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nottingham Business School Nottingham Trent University Nottingham UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4426-6516 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Technologies of Self-Care in Precarious Neoliberal Academia: Women Academics' Craftwork as Strategies of Coping and Complicity
This article explores the use of craftwork as a technology of self-care by women academics to cope with work demands and commodified narratives in academia. It combines discussions about work pressures in academia and technologies of the self to theorise self-care strategies used to navigate academic demands and identify new research avenues. Through the memory work of the four women academic authors, the article shows craftwork as a strategy of …
Writing differently: Finding beauty in the broken
This article presents our “multi‐vocal memory work” of collaborative researching and writing experiences as women academics in UK Business Schools. Set against the backdrop of the broken neoliberal academy, we use Daoism as an analytical lens to identify two emergent themes: 1) emotional contradictions and 2) institutional and social structures: micro‐creative and collective change. Examining ourselves and the academy as broken, we learn to find …
Intersectional reflexivity: Fieldwork experiences of ethnic minority women researchers
In this paper, we illustrate the usefulness of intersectional reflexivity as an approach for researchers to reflect on their role with more nuance. This approach highlights the importance of reflexivity accounts engaging in more nuanced reflection that considers how intersecting socially constructed categories of difference are mobilized during research exchanges to negotiate positionality and the resulting instances of researcher privilege and d…
I am not a Gentleman academic’: Telling our truths of micro‐coercive control and gaslighting in Business Schools using ‘Faction’
This paper draws from our own experiences of sexism within Business Schools to bring attention to the effects of the operation of a highly masculinized, white, cis‐gendered, and patriarchal culture, whether enacted by men or women, and to how we come to be silenced within it. Our work reflects on intersectional issues of race, health (mental and physical), and care‐work, using faction built from six paired interviews to tell a truth we feel unabl…
Home sweet home: Creating a sense of place in globally mobile working lives
Globalization has transformed spatial relations, increasing the demand for mobility. Literature tends to see the de-emphasizing of national identity and the foregrounding of a cosmopolitan identity as central to an individual's ability to navigate this global landscape. For individuals who are constantly moving the question is how do globally mobile workers navigate the intersection of identity, meaningfulness and place? This interpretivist study…
Contextualizing privilege and disadvantage: Lessons from women expatriates in the Middle East
This article explores how the simultaneity of privilege and disadvantage shapes the experiences of women expatriates in the Middle East. The article problematizes the simultaneity of being an elite group (e.g. expatriates) and a disadvantaged group (e.g. women) within the context of Gulf Cooperation Council countries. Drawing on the literature about women and work expatriation, the article analyses the narratives of women expatriates to highlight…
I am not a Gentleman academic’: Telling our truths of micro‐coercive control and gaslighting in Business Schools using ‘Faction’
This paper draws from our own experiences of sexism within Business Schools to bring attention to the effects of the operation of a highly masculinized, white, cis‐gendered, and patriarchal culture, whether enacted by men or women, and to how we come to be silenced within it. Our work reflects on intersectional issues of race, health (mental and physical), and care‐work, using faction built from six paired interviews to tell a truth we feel unabl…
Intersectional reflexivity: Fieldwork experiences of ethnic minority women researchers
In this paper, we illustrate the usefulness of intersectional reflexivity as an approach for researchers to reflect on their role with more nuance. This approach highlights the importance of reflexivity accounts engaging in more nuanced reflection that considers how intersecting socially constructed categories of difference are mobilized during research exchanges to negotiate positionality and the resulting instances of researcher privilege and d…
Writing differently: Finding beauty in the broken
This article presents our “multi‐vocal memory work” of collaborative researching and writing experiences as women academics in UK Business Schools. Set against the backdrop of the broken neoliberal academy, we use Daoism as an analytical lens to identify two emergent themes: 1) emotional contradictions and 2) institutional and social structures: micro‐creative and collective change. Examining ourselves and the academy as broken, we learn to find …
Contextualizing privilege and disadvantage: Lessons from women expatriates in the Middle East
This article explores how the simultaneity of privilege and disadvantage shapes the experiences of women expatriates in the Middle East. The article problematizes the simultaneity of being an elite group (e.g. expatriates) and a disadvantaged group (e.g. women) within the context of Gulf Cooperation Council countries. Drawing on the literature about women and work expatriation, the article analyses the narratives of women expatriates to highlight…
Home sweet home: Creating a sense of place in globally mobile working lives
Globalization has transformed spatial relations, increasing the demand for mobility. Literature tends to see the de-emphasizing of national identity and the foregrounding of a cosmopolitan identity as central to an individual's ability to navigate this global landscape. For individuals who are constantly moving the question is how do globally mobile workers navigate the intersection of identity, meaningfulness and place? This interpretivist study…
I am not a Gentleman academic’: Telling our truths of micro‐coercive control and gaslighting in Business Schools using ‘Faction’
This paper draws from our own experiences of sexism within Business Schools to bring attention to the effects of the operation of a highly masculinized, white, cis‐gendered, and patriarchal culture, whether enacted by men or women, and to how we come to be silenced within it. Our work reflects on intersectional issues of race, health (mental and physical), and care‐work, using faction built from six paired interviews to tell a truth we feel unabl…
Intersectional reflexivity: Fieldwork experiences of ethnic minority women researchers
In this paper, we illustrate the usefulness of intersectional reflexivity as an approach for researchers to reflect on their role with more nuance. This approach highlights the importance of reflexivity accounts engaging in more nuanced reflection that considers how intersecting socially constructed categories of difference are mobilized during research exchanges to negotiate positionality and the resulting instances of researcher privilege and d…
Writing differently: Finding beauty in the broken
This article presents our “multi‐vocal memory work” of collaborative researching and writing experiences as women academics in UK Business Schools. Set against the backdrop of the broken neoliberal academy, we use Daoism as an analytical lens to identify two emergent themes: 1) emotional contradictions and 2) institutional and social structures: micro‐creative and collective change. Examining ourselves and the academy as broken, we learn to find …
Technologies of Self-Care in Precarious Neoliberal Academia: Women Academics' Craftwork as Strategies of Coping and Complicity
This article explores the use of craftwork as a technology of self-care by women academics to cope with work demands and commodified narratives in academia. It combines discussions about work pressures in academia and technologies of the self to theorise self-care strategies used to navigate academic demands and identify new research avenues. Through the memory work of the four women academic authors, the article shows craftwork as a strategy of …
Gender Studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Disadvantage (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · International Student and Expatriate Challenges (2 works)