Dr John Chandler obtained a BA in Sociology at the University of Nottingham and an MPhil in Social Policy and Administration at the University of Kent before heading to Sweden, where he was awarded a PhD in the Sociology of Work from Luleå University of Technology. He worked within the public sector in administration, and also had a brief spell working in a factory, before joining the teaching staff at UEL in the late 1970s. Dr Chandler has taken on a variety of course and programme management roles at UEL alongside teaching and research.

John is Reader at the Business School and Research Degrees Leader for the School. He teaches on our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and also supervises a number of Postgraduate Research students.

• Work and identity
• Sociology of emotions
• Social movements
• Gender and work
• Public services management and leadership

• BA Business Management
• BA Human Resource Management
• MBA

HR1003 People, organizations and management

HR3010 Researching in Business and Management

Present research is focused on management in higher education and social care.

Recent publications include:

• Barry J, Berg E and Chandler J (2010) “Ungleichstellung der Geschlecter als Routine? Die Auswirkungen der Hochsulreformen in Shweden und England” Feministische Studien, 1, 56-70.

• Berg E, Barry J, Chandler J (2008) “New Public Management and Social Work in Sweden and England: Challenges and opportunities for staff in predominantly female organizations”, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 28, ¾, 114-128.

• Barry J. Chandler J and Berg E (2007) "Women's Movements and New Public Management: Higher Education in Sweden and England" Public Administration, 85,1, 103-122.

• Barry J, Berg E and Chandler J (2006) "Movement and Change in the Public Sector: Bringing social movements into the analysis" Public Management Review, 8, 3, 433-448.

• Barry J, Berg E and Chandler J (2006) "Academic Shape Shifting: Gender, management and identities in Sweden and England" (2006) Organization, 13, 2, 275-298.

• Barry J, Berg E and Chandler J  (2003) "Managing Intellectual Labour in Sweden and England" Cross-Cultural Journal Management: An International Journal, 10, 3, 3-22.

• Berg E, Barry J and Chandler J  (2003) “Nice work if you can get it? The changing character of academic labour in Sweden and England” Comportamento Organizacional e Gestao, 9, 2, 231-249

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

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

• Clark H, Chandler J and Barry J (1996) “Work Psychology, Women and Stress:  Silence, Identity and the Boundaries of Conventional Wisdom” Gender, Work and Organization, 3,2, 65-77

Member of the British Sociological Association

Books

Chandler, J., Barry, J., Berg, E. and Piipola, S. (2009) Dilemmas for Human Services: Papers from the 12^th International Research Conference, 2008, University of East London, London

Berg, E., Barry, J., Piipola, S. and Chandler, J. (Eds) (2008) Dilemmas of Identity, New Public Management and Governance (2008). Luleå: Sweden,

Chandler J (ed) (2006) Dilemmas for Human Services: Papers from the 9th International Dilemmas Conference, London 2005, University of East London, London

Chandler J, Barry J (eds)  (2004) Dilemmas Facing the Public Sector: Issues for Professionals, Managers and Users (2004) University of East London, London

Dent M, Chandler and Barrry J (2003) Questioning the New Public Management Ashgate, Basingstoke

Barry J, Chandler J, Clark H, Johnston R and Needle D. (2000) Organisation and Management: A Critical Text (2000) Thomson Learning, London

Clark H, Chandler J and Barry J (1994) Organisation and Identities International Thomson, London

Contributions to Books, Research Reports and Papers

Barry, J., Berg, E. and Chandler, J. (2012) “Embedding European Identity in Context: Changing Social Solidarities in Europe” in Ellison, M. (2012) Reinventing Social Solidarity Across Europe, Policy Press, Bristol. Pp. 83-98.

Barry, J., Berg, E. and Chandler, J. (2010 – also 2^nd edition 2012) “The New Management of Healthcare: ‘Rational’ Performance and Gendered Actors” in Kuhlmann, E. and Annandale, E. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Healthcare, Palgrave, Basingstoke.

Barry, J., Berg, E. and Chandler, J. (2009) “Embedding European Identity in Context: Changing Social Solidarities in Europe” in Chandler, J., Barry, J., Berg, E. and Piipola, S. (2009) Dilemmas for Human Services: Papers from the 12^th International Research Conference, 2008, University of East London, London

Berg, E., Harlow, E., Barry, J. and Chandler, J. (2009) “The Neoliberal Challenge to Social Work: The case of Sweden and the United Kingdom” in Chandler, J., Barry, J., Berg, E. and Piipola, S. (2009) Dilemmas for Human Services: Papers from the 12^th International Research Conference, 2008, University of East London, London

Berg, E., Chandler, J. and Barry, J. (2008) “Changing Leadership in the Public Sector: Higher Education and Social Work in Sweden and England, in Berg, E., et al, Dilemmas of Identity, New Public Management and Governance (2008) (85-90). Luleå: Sweden

Chandler, J. (2008) “Managerial Identifications Under New Public Management: Voices of Criticism and Assent” in Berg, E., et al, Dilemmas of Identity, New Public Management and Governance (2008) Luleå: Sweden, (pp 103-108)

Barry, J., Berg, E. and Chandler, J. (2007) “Management and Gender: Experiences of mass higher education”, in Radcliffe, J. and Dent, M. (2007) Dilemmas of the New Governance, Conference Proceedings (82-87). Staffordshire: University of Staffordshire.

Berg, E., Chandler, J. and Barry, J. (2007) “Problems Facing Middle Managers in Social Work and Higher education: Some experiences of the ‘neglected middle’ in Sweden and England”, in Radcliffe, J. and Dent, M. (2007) Dilemmas of the New Governance, Conference Proceedings (47-52). Staffordshire: University of Staffordshire.

Berg E, Chandler J and Barry J (2006) "Opening the Tool-Box: Managerial convergences in higher education in England, The Netherlands and Sweden" in Chandler, J (ed) (2006) Dilemmas for Human Services: Papers for from the 9th International Dilemmas Conference, London: UEL

Chandler J (2006) "Positioning the Self in the New Higher Education: Degrees of identification" in Chandler, J (ed) (2006) Dilemmas for Human Services: Papers for frkom the 9th International Dilemmas Conference, London: UEL.

Barry J, Berg E and Chandler J (2005) “Gender and the Managerial Turn in Higher Education: Accounts from female academics in England and Sweden” in Maione V (2005) Gender Equality in Higher Education: Miscellanea Third European Conference Genoa, 13-16 April 2003, Franco Angeli, Milan

Chandler J, Barry J and Berg E (2004) “Reforming Managerialism? Gender and the Navigation of change in higher education in Sweden and England” (2004) In Thomas R., Mills A. and Helm-Mills J (2004) Identity  Politics at Work: Resisting Gender, Gendering Resistance, Routledge, Abingdon

Chandler J (2003) “Gendered Narratives of the Management of Residential Care Homes” (2003). In Dent M, Barry J and O'Neill M (2003) Gender and the New Public Management, Routledge, London

Berg E, Barry J and Chandler J (2003) “The New Public Management and Higher Education: A human cost?” In Dent M, Barry J and Chandler J (Eds) (2003) Questioning the New Public Management: Dilemmas for Professionals and Managers Ashgate, Basingstoke

Chandler J, Berg E and Barry J (2003) “Workplace Stress in the UK: Contextualising Difference” in Peterson C (Ed) (2003) Work Stress: Studies of the context, content and outcomes of stress Baywood, New York.

Chandler J, Barry J and Berg E (2003) "Managing Identity in Academe" in Radcliffe et al (eds) (2003) Dilemmas for Human Services 2003 A Post-NPM World?: Ethics and Risk in a Changing Environment, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent

Chandler J (2003) Positioning Ourselves: Work and the social (re)construction of the self in late modernity (2003) Doctoral Thesis, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden ISSN 1402-1544.

Chandler J, Barry and Clark H (2002) Unsettling Managerialism in ‘Mass’ Higher Education (2002), UEL ELBS Working Paper Series, Paper No 1, Univeristy of East London, London

Clark H, Barry J, Chandler J and Woolliams P (2001) Lone Parents: Parenting and Employment, National Council for One Parent Families, London

Clark H, Chandler J and Barry J (2000) “Work, Stress and Gender: Conceptualisation and Consequence” (2000) in Barry, J. et al. (Eds) Organisation and Management :A Critical Text, International Thomson, London

Chandler J (2000) “Organizational Behaviour and the Individual: Critique of a Consensus” in Barry, J. et al (Eds) (2000) Organisation and Management: A Critical Text (2000) International Thompson, London

Clark H, Chandler and Barry J (1999) “Gender and Managerialism in the Organisation of University Life” in Husu, L. et al (Ed) (1999) Hard Work in the Academy University of Helsinki, Helsinki

Clark H, Barry J, Chandler J and Wolliams (1999) “I’d like to work full-time but I can’t afford to” – Lone Parenting and Employment in Britain (1999) Dent, M., O’Neil, M. and Bagley, C. (Eds) Professions, New Public Management and the European Welfare State, Staffordshire University Press, Stoke -on-Trent

Clark H, Chandler J and Barry J (1998) “Too Scattered to Provide and Critical Mass?", in Goodman R (1998) (Ed), Modern Organizations and Emerging Conundrums:  Exploring the Post-Industrial Sub-Culture of the Third Millennium, New Lexington Press, Jossey-Bass

Clark H, Chandler J and Barry J (1998) “On Whether it is Better to be Loved than Feared: Managerialism and Women in Universities”, in Jary D and Parker M (1998) (Eds) The New Higher Education : Issues and Directions for the post-Dearing University, Staffordshire University Press, Staffordshire

Clark H, Barry J and Chandler J (1996) Gender and Work Stress: Experience, Accommodation and Resistance, University of Portsmouth Occasional Papers in Organizational Analysis, Number 7

Chandler J (1991) Towards Radical Social Planning in Local Government? (1991) Occasional Papers on Business, Economy and Society, Number 5, Polytechnic of East London, London