Purpose – Research Governance has been introduced to regulate research involving National Health Service (NHS) patients and staff but the process is lengthy and bureaucratic and has improved little since its introduction. The paper seeks to investigate changes over time....

Purpose – This paper aims to explore the contribution of combined social constructionist and existential perspectives to the understanding of leadership and calls for a reconsideration of the objectivist, functionalist assumptions and approaches to leadership. It aims to argue the value of...

Introduction -- Speaking as working women and working as speaking women -- Arguing with the phallus, or the materialization of the psyche -- Visualities and materialities: the performativity of the female -- Managerial suit or writing about the visual chastity belt -- Intersectionality,...