Jim Barry is a Xociologist and a Professor in Gender and Organisation Srudies based in the University of East London (UEL) Business School, UK; he holds a PhD in political sociology. He is an Associate Editor for the Journal Gender, Work & Organization, Editorial Advisory Board member of the Journal Equal Opportunities International and Editorial Board member of the Journal Local Governance Dynamics based in Mumbai in India. He is also Co-director of the UEL based Organisation Studies Research Group, co-founder of the Organisation Studies Network, and a founding member of the European Network on Managerialism and Higher Education. He has published on gender and social movements, gender, politics and governance, gender and organizations, gender and public services in India and UK, gender and work-stress, gender, managerialism and higher education, gender and identities, gender and business ethics, and lone parenting and employment.

Organisation Studies Research Group, Annual Dilemmas International Research Conference, PhD students, Editorial responsibilities for the following journals: Gender, Work and Organization, Local Governance Dynamics, and Equal Opportunities International…

See research/key words below

• Undrgraduate Business Studies

• Critical Issues in Oganisation & Management

• Academic Shape Shifting: Gender, Management and Identities in Sweden and England (2006) Organization, 13, 2, 275-298, with Elisabeth Berg and John Chandler.

• “Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women: Experiences of Urban Governance”, Local Government Quarterly, (2005) Vol. LXXIII, NO. 2-3-4, pp. 6-17, with Elisabeth Berg.

• “Governance, Management and Change: Moving the public sector in new directions”, Local Governance Dynamics, (2005) Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1-6, with Trudie Honour.

• Gender and the Managerial Turn in Higher Education: Accounts from Female Academics in England and Sweden In Maione, V (2005) (Ed) Gender Equality in Higher Education - Miscellanea, Third European Conference, Genoa, 13-16 April 2003, Franco Angeli: Milan, pp 53-66, with Elisabeth Berg and John Chandler.

• “Reforming Managerialism? Gender and the navigation of change in higher education in Sweden and England” (2004). In Thomas, R., Mills, A. and Helms Mills, J. (Eds) Identity Politics at Work: Resisting gender, gendering resistance. Routledge, London, pp. 123-140, with Elisabeth Berg and John Chandler.

• Questioning the New Public Management (2004) Ashgate, Aldershot, edited jointly with Mike Dent and John Chandler.

• “New Public Management and the Professions in the UK: Reconfiguring Control?” (2004). In Dent, M., Chandler, J., and Barry, J. (Eds) Questioning the New Public Management. Ashgate, Aldershot, pp. 7-20, with Mike Dent.

• “The New Public Management and Higher education: A Human Cost?” (2004). In Dent, M., Chandler, J. and Barry, J. (Eds) Questioning the New Public Management, Ashgate, Aldershot, pp. 161-175, with Elisabeth Berg and John Chandler.

• “Social Movement, Acton and Change: The influence of women’s movements on city government in Mumbai and London” (2004), Gender, Work and Organization, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 143-162, with Trudie Honour and Sneha Palnitkar.

Numerous, including:

• Gender and the Public Sector: Professional and Managerial Change (2003) Routledge, London, edited jointly with Professor Mike Dent and Dr Maggie O'Neill.

• “Nice work if you can get it?: The changing character of academic labour in Sweden and England” (2003) Comportamento Organizacional e Gestao, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp, 231-249, with Elisabeth Berg and John Chandler.

• “Managing Intellectual Labour in Sweden and England” (2003), Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp, 3-22, with Elisabeth Berg and John Chandler.

• “Workplace Stress in the UK: Contextualising Difference” (2003). In Peterson, C. (Ed) Work Stress: Studies of the Context, Content and Outcomes ofStress Baywood, New York, pp. 33-51, with Elisabeth Berg and John Chandler.

• “Gendered States, Critical Engagements” (2003). In: Barry J., Dent M. and O’Neill M. (Eds) Gender and the Public Sector: Professional and Managerial Change Routledge, London (forthcoming), pp.27-43, with Trudie Honour and Sneha Palnitkar.

• “Dancing to a managerial tune? - performing managerialism and enacting academe” (2003). In Biberman, J. and Alkhafaji, A. F. (Eds) Business Research Yearbook: Global Business Perspectives Volume X 2003, pp.758-762, IABD, California, with Elisabeth Berg and Peter Elsmore.

• "Stressing Academe: The Wear and Tear of the New Public Management" (2002), Human Relations, Vol 55, No 9, pp.1051-1069, with John Chandler and Heather Clark.

• “Genre et prise de décision politique au niveau local a Londres et à Mumbai (ancien Bombay)” (2001). In Spensky, M. (Ed) Les femmes à la conquête du pouvoir politique: Royaume-Uni, Irlande, Inde, pp.193-208, L’ Harmattan, Paris.

• Lone Parents: Parenting and Employment (2001), National Council for One Parent Families, with Heather Clark, John Chandler & Peter Woolliams (forthcoming).

• "Between the Ivory Tower and the Academic Assembly Line" (2001), Journal of Management Studies, Vol 38, No1, pp.87-101, with John Chandler and Heather Clark.

• Social Policy Association
• British Sociological Association
• Association for the Teaching of the Social Sciences
• Gender and Management Special Interest Group
• University Colleges Union

• Abstract can be found in the various articles shown above

• International Dilemmas in the Public sector Research Conference
• Organiaton Studies Research Group