Staff profile

Stefanie Reissner is Professor of Organization Studies at Durham University Business School. She has a PhD from Durham University and extensive research, education and leadership experience in higher education over a 20-year career. Stefanie is elected Council member at the British Academy of Management (BAM), working on the Research & Publications Sub-Committee for a second term and leading BAM’s research grant portfolio in her role as BAM Chair of Research Grants. She has been appointed as a member of the ESRC’s Peer Review College and a Fellow of BAM’s Peer Review College, sits on the editorial board of the International Journal of Management Reviews and regularly reviews for major scholarly management and organizational journals.

Stefanie specializes in qualitative research, particularly constructionist and interpretivist methodologies involving interviewing, narrative and reflexivity. She has researched identity, narrative, storytelling and sensemaking in different contexts such as organizational change, employee engagement and flexible working. Stefanie’s research has been published in major management and organization journals, such as Work, Employment & Society, Public Administration, Journal of Business Ethics, European Management Review, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Journal of Organizational Change Management, Culture & Organization and Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management. She has authored two research monographs and co-edited the Handbook of Research Methods for Studying Identity In and Around Organizations (2023).

Moreover, Stefanie is a committed educator and holds Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy in the UK. She is co-editor and co-author of the best-selling textbook Developing Skills for Business Leadership, now in its third edition (2023). Stefanie has designed, delivered and led modules at undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral levels with a focus on research methods and acted as external examiner on doctoral training programmes at the University of Huddersfield and the University of Birmingham. She has been invited to facilitate workshops on narrative analysis on behalf of the Northern Advanced Research Training Initiative (NARTI) and to give keynote speeches at doctoral symposia and summer schools in the UK and internationally.

An overview of Stefanie’s publications can be found at: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=bjx3wJsAAAAJ&hl=de

Stefanie welcomes applications from students seeking to study for a doctorate in the areas of flexible / remote / hybrid, working and identity (professional or organizational) who are proposing qualitative methods.

• Professional identity, organizational identity, narrative, storytelling, flexible and remote working, boundary management, qualitative research methodology, qualitative interviewing, researcher reflexivity

• 2025: Sub-theme convenor: Organizing Creatively for Hybrid Working: Sub-theme organised for 41st EGOS Colloquium, 3-5 July 2025, Athens / Greece, with Gislene Feiten Haubrich and Marko Orel.
• 2024: External advisor for programme development: External advisor for development of new programme 'BSc Business Management and Human Resource Management', University of Southampton.
• 2024: Reflections on the role of academic communities: Invited keynote speech, delivered at doctoral training event on how to build a successful academic career as a PhD researcher in business and management, 12-13 September 2024. The event was sponsored by the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies (SAMS) and the Northern Advanced Research Training Initiative (NARTI).
• 2024: The PhD in context: Reflections on the role of academic communities: Keynote speech given at Newcastle University Business School Doctoral Conference, 5th June 2024
• 2023: British Academy of Management Chair of Research Grants:
• 2023: Fellow, British Academy of Management Peer Review College:
• 2023: Qualitative interviewing and knowledge claims: Invited keynote at Oxford Brookes Business School Doctoral Research Conference
• 2023: Advanced qualitative research interviewing and reflexivity: Invited workshop at BAM/ SIM / SIMA summer school on qualitative methods, Italy
• 2023: Sub-theme co-convenor: A new ideal worker in a fluid / flexible / hybrid work environment: Sub-theme organised for 13th International Critical Management Conference (with M Izak and M Ajzen), Nottingham, UK
• 2021: Invited special issue co-editor 'Flexible lives', Culture & Organization:
• 2021: Quality in interview-based research: The role of reflexivity: Invited keynote at An Inquiry on Data Driven Approach Conference, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA), Singapore
• 2021: Your world view really matters: Reflections on interview-based research: Invited keynote speech at Annual Doctoral Conference, Edinburgh Napier University
• 2021: Sub-theme co-convenor: Flexible lives: Sub-theme organised for 12th International Critical Management Studies Conference (with M Izak and H Shortt), BML Munjal University, India
• 2019: Senior Fellowship Higher Education Academy:
• 2018: Elected Council Member, British Academy of Management:
• 2018: External examiner: MA Social Research: External examiner (qualitative methods expert) for cross-faculty doctoral training programme
• 2010: Member, ESRC Peer Review College:

Journal Article

• Reissner, S., & Falkheimer, J. (online). Strategy texts as auto-communication: How narrative, language, and visual symbolism exercise discursive control. International Journal of Strategic Communication, https://doi.org/10.1080/1553118X.2024.2388087
• Whittle, A., & Reissner, S. (2024). Making Knowledge Claims from Qualitative Interviews: A Typology of Epistemological Modes. British Journal of Management, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12845
• Reissner, S. C., & Armitage-Chan, E. (2024). Manifestations of professional identity work: An integrative review of research in professional identity formation. Studies in Higher Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2024.2322093
• Izak, M., Reissner, S., & Shortt, H. (2023). Flexible lives: spatial, temporal, and behavioural boundaries in a fluid world of work and home. Culture and Organization, 29(5), 375-379. https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2023.2211375