Dr Clare Mumford
Clare is a research associate in the PACT Institute. Her research interests are broad but focus principally on themes of silence, absence, and care in working life. Since completing her PhD in 2015 on the communicative practice of staying silent at work, she has been employed on various research projects. She specialises in qualitative research methodology and theory.
Clare works part-time in the PACT Institute to support its transdisciplinary research focus.
Clare has been employed on a number of research projects including an ethnography of employee gentleness in health and social care settings (University of Manchester, Work and Equalities Institute); a longitudinal study of job quality in hospitality (University of Manchester, Work and Equalities Institute); an exploratory study of the intersection between complex fertility journeys and work (Manchester Metropolitan University, Centre for Decent Work and Productivity); and an interdisciplinary study of plastic packaging in people's lives (Lancaster University Management School).
- PhD, 2015, Open University Business School - Withholding Communication: Withholding communication - a relational approach to silence in an inter-organisational project group in the UK
- Silence
- Care
- Working lives
- Subjective experiences of good work
- Member of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
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