Dr Edward Granter

Contact information Dr Edward Granter Research Associate Roles and Behaviours of Middle and Junior Managers Project Manchester Business School The University of Manchester Booth Street West, M15 6PB Email: edward.granter@mbs.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0) 1612750444

Professional Background

I am currently working with colleagues on a 3 year research project which looks at the realities of working life for middle and junior managers in UK healthcare organisations. This project combines robust theoretical grounding with dynamic ethnographic research, and my role builds on a long term interest in the sociology of work.

Having completed a degree in Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge (1997-2000) I spent time working as a labourer in various factories in South Cheshire and North Staffordshire, as well as teaching English in St. Petersburg, Russia, and History at a secondary school in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent.

Between 2002 and 2003 I did an MA in Russian and East European Studies at the University of Birmingham, and went directly from this to a PhD at the University of Salford.

My PhD, entitled ‘Critical Social Theory and the End of Work’ was completed in 2007. The PhD traces the intellectual history of theories of the end of work, placing them in social and sociological context, and highlighting the commonalities between them.

Publication

My first book, Critical Social Theory and the End of Work is published by Ashgate:

http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754676973

I have published an article which discusses themes around futurology and the end of work: ‘A dream of ease: Situating the future of work and leisure’ in Futures 40 (9) November 2008, pp. 803-811.

A review article appears in the May 2009 edition of Sociology: ‘Acceptable in the 1980’s: Sociology and the End of Work’.

Research Interests

• Critical social theory (with special reference to Marcuse, Baudrillard and Gorz)
• Sociology of work
• Healthcare management and organisation
• Social change and de-industrialisation (with special reference to cultural ramifications)
• Nostalgia
• The recent history of sociology and cultural studies
• The 1980’s – sociology and social breakdown
• Critiques of consumerism
• Film (with special reference to New York in the 1980s)

I am always interested in hearing from colleagues at all levels who are working in related fields.