Senior Lecturer, Department of Management and Professional Development;
Associate Member WLRI
Frances began her career in the National Health Service,
working in administration, personnel and training. During her time at London
Metropolitan University she has taught modules including organisational
behaviour, applied psychology, managing people, organisational theory, research
methods and interpersonal skills on a range of undergraduate and postgraduate
programmes. She currently specialises in teaching cross-cultural management and
critical perspectives in organisational theory and managerial psychology. She
also works with the Refugee Assessment and Guidance Unit (RAGU) on the
development and teaching of management courses for refugees and refugee
organisations.
Frances’s current research interests centre on issues of
identity, diversity and organising practices. She was a member of the WLRI team
that recently completed a study of the employment trajectories for
refugee women - from volunteers to paid employees, funded by the London
Development Agency and European Social Fund Objective 3 co-financing programme.
Other current projects include the acculturation and adjustment of international
postgraduate students and diversity management in the voluntary sector.
Tomlinson, F (2005) ‘Idealistic and pragmatic versions of the
discourse of partnership’ Organization Studies Vol. 26 No 8,
1169-1188.
Tomlinson, F. and Egan, S. (2002) ‘From marginalization to
(dis)empowerment: Organizing training and employment services for refugees’ Human Relations Vol. 55 No. 8 1019-1043
Tomlinson, F. and Egan, S. (2002) ‘Organizational sensemaking
in the context of cultural diversity: Limits to the ‘valuing diversity’
discourse’ Management Learning Vol. 33 No 1 79-97
Tomlinson, F., Brockbank, A. and Traves, J. (1997) ‘The
‘Feminization’ of Management? Issues of ‘sameness’ and ‘difference’ in the roles
and experiences of female and male retail managers’ Gender, Work and
Organization Vol. 4, No 4 218-229
Traves, J., Brockbank, A. and Tomlinson, F. (1997) ‘Careers
of Women Managers in the Retail Industry’ The Services Industries
Journal Vol. 17, No 1 133-154
Book Chapter
Tomlinson, F. (2002) ‘From Paternalism to Empowerment? The
Case of the Refugee Training Partnership’ in Purdue, D. and Stewart, M. (eds) Understanding Collaboration: International Perspectives on Theory, Method
and Practice Bristol: University of the West of England
Research Reports
Erel, U and Tomlinson, F (2005) Women refugees - from
volunteers to employees: a research project on paid and unpaid work in the
voluntary sector and volunteering as a pathway into employment London:
Working Lives Research Institute
Egan, S. and Tomlinson, F. (1999) Models of Good Practice
in Education, Training and Employment Services for Refugees: The UK
experience UNL/RAGU
Selected Conference Papers
Tomlinson, F (2005) ‘Marking difference and negotiating
belonging: refugee women constructing organizational identities’ 21st EGOS Colloquium Berlin: July
Tomlinson, F (2004) ‘The discursive construction of the
volunteer’ 6th International Conference on Organizational Discourse Amsterdam: July
Tomlinson, F. (2003) ‘Positioning acts and identity effects:
Exploring discursive practices in the refugee field’ 3rd International
Critical Management Studies Conference Lancaster University, Management
School: July
Tomlinson, F. (2002) ‘Three discourses of partnership:
official, institutional and moral understandings’ 5th International
Conference on Organizational Discourse London: July
Tomlinson, F. (2001) ‘Case study research, analytic or
narrative process? Researching collaboration in the refugee field’ 17th EGOS
Colloquium Lyon: July
Tomlinson, F. and Egan, S. (2000) ‘From marginalisation to
(dis)empowerment: refugees in the UK labour market’ 16th EGOS
Colloquium Helsinki: July
Tomlinson, F. and Egan, S. (1999) ‘MBAs, Globalisation and
the ‘Valuing Diversity’ Discourse’ 15th EGOS Colloquium Warwick
University: July
Refereed Working
Papers/Pamphlets
Unequal Opportunities: Racial Discrimination and the
Youth Training Scheme, 1985, Birmingham: TURC Publishing, (50 pages,
pamphlet).
The "Flexible Firm": A Model in Search of Reality (or a
Policy in Search of a Practice?), 1987, Warwick Paper in Industrial
Relations, Number 19, Industrial Relations Research Unit, University of
Warwick.
Equal Opportunities and Positive Action in Britain: Three
Case Studies 1992 (with T. Rees) Warwick Paper in Industrial Relations,
Number 42, Industrial Relations Research Unit, University of Warwick.
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