Dr Kathryn Waddington
Qualifications
PhD, MSc, BSc, PGCE(A), RGN, RCNT, RNT
Career summary
Kathryn qualified as a nurse at Kings College Hospital, London, and worked as a clinical teacher and nurse lecturer before joining City University London in 1998. She has extensive experience of teaching applied psychology and communication skills to nursing and other professional disciplines in health and social care. Her doctoral research in psychology explored the role of gossip in nursing and health care organisations, focusing in particular upon the role of gossip in relation to the expression and management of emotion, stress and sensemaking. Kathryn has published extensively in health, organisation and management journals, and is author of the forthcoming monograph Gossip and Organizations published by Routledge in 2012. She is a chartered psychologist and associate fellow of the British Psychological Society.
Funded projects
Research interests
Teaching
National/International research & scholarly activities
Recent publications
Conference contributions
Membership of professional bodies
Funded projects
| 2010/11 | £9.5K City University London Catalyst Fund (proof-of-concept) |
| 2009/10 | £15K Leadership Foundation for Higher Education Small Development Project: HRM Strategies and Academic Engagement. Report available at: www.lfhe.ac.uk/research/smallprojects/finalreportcity.pdf |
| 2007/08 | £26K Skills for Care Interprofessional Innovations Project: Using the PQ Framework to Promote Advanced Interprofessional Practice in Managing Change: A Work-Based Initiative. |
| 2002/03 | £35K North London NHS Region Call-down Centre: Staff Recruitment and Retention in one London NHS Direct Call Centre: Implications for Service and Role Development. |
| 2001/02 | £20K City University London Research Award: Emotion Work in a NHS Direct Call Centre. |
Research interests
Current interdisciplinary research interests relate to the wider implications and methodological challenges of researching gossip as constitutive organisational communication and knowledge. This includes the ethics and politics of gossip, and the role of gossip as a means of both concealing and exposing the hidden aspects and 'dark side' of organisational life. I also have an interest in employee engagement and mixed-methods and academic-practitioner research.
Teaching
Module leader for the following MSc modules:
- Psychology at Work: NMM049
- Leadership for Practice and Service Delivery: NMM015
- Partnership in Practice: NMM002
- Elective Placement: NMM006
- Dissertation Module: NMM004
National/international research & scholarly activities
| 2011 | Invited speaker at Institute of Biomedical Science Congress, Birmingham, 'Gossip in the workplace'. |
| 2010 | British Psychological Society (BPS) internal validation panel member for UK wide qualifications in psychology and independent chair for Health Professional Council (HPC) approval events for Chartered Psychologists |
| 2010 | Invited speaker at European Business Ethics Network, University of Leuven, Belgium, 'Gossip in healthcare organisations: A neglected topic?' |
| 2009 | Invited speaker for Leadership Foundation for Higher Education Holborn Series: Leading and Managing Talent -Nurturing and Maintaining Engagement. |
| 2008 | Convenor of sub-theme 'Evil Tongues at Work? The Unmanaged Spaces of Organizational Gossip' at 24th European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS) Colloquium: Upsetting Organizations, Amsterdam. |
| 2007 | Convenor of sub-theme 'Talk, Power and Organisational Change' at 5th Critical Management Studies (CMS) Conference: Reconnecting Critical Management, Manchester. |
Forthcoming:
Waddington, K. (2012). Gossip and Organizations. New York/London: Routledge.
Waddington, K. (2012) 'Using qualitative diary research to understand emotion at work', methodology chapter in A. B. Bakker and K. Daniels (eds) A Day in the Life of a Happy Worker. Psychology Press.
Recent publications (from 2005):
Journal Articles
Waddington, K. (2011) 'Watch this space: Working between disciplines and paradigms in the scholarship of organizational gossip' International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, 5 (9) available at: www.SocialSciences-Journal.com, ISSN 1833-1882
Bistaraki, A., Waddington, K. and Galanis, P. (2011) 'The effectiveness of a disaster training programme for healthcare workers in Greece', International Nursing Review, 58 (3) 341-346.
Molloy, K and Waddington, K (2011) 'Learning about leadership through critical reflection and practitioner-academic co-inquiry', European Work and Organizational Psychology in Practice, 4 (in press).
Waddington, K. (2010) 'Organisational gossip, sense-making and the spookfish: a reflexive account'. International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy, 4(2): 311-325.
Michelson, G., van Iterson, A. and Waddington, K. (2010), 'Gossip in organizations: Contexts, consequences and controversies. Group & Organization Management, 35(4): 371-390.
Ladbury, B and Waddington, K (2010) 'How dentists can help tackle child abuse in the home', Every Child, 1 (5) 112-120.
Amro, R., Cox, C. L., Waddington, K. and Siriwardena, D. (2010) 'Glaucoma expert patient programme and ocular hypotensive treatment', British Journal of Nursing, 19 (20): 1287-1292.
Weir, H. and Waddington, K. (2008) 'Continuities in caring? Emotion work in a NHS Direct call centre, Nursing Inquiry, 16 (1): 67-77.
Waddington, K. and Michelson, G. (2007) 'Analysing gossip to reveal and understand power relationships, political action and reaction to change inside organisations', Electronic Journal of Radical Organisation Theory. Available at:
www.management.ac.nz/ejrot/cmsconference/2007/proceedings/talkpowerandorganisational/proceedings_talkpowerandorganisational.asp.
Waddington, K. (2005) 'Behind closed doors: The role of gossip in the emotion work of nursing', International Journal of Work, Organisation and Emotion, 1 (1): 35-47.
Waddington, K. (2005). 'Using diaries to explore the characteristics of work-related gossip: Methodological considerations from exploratory, multimethod research', Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 78 (2): 221-236.
Waddington, K. and Fletcher C. (2005). 'Gossip and emotion in nursing and health-care organisations', Journal of Health, Organisation and Management, 19 (4/5): 378-394.
Book Chapters
van Iterson, A., Waddington, K. and Michelson G. (2011) 'Breaking the silence: The role of gossip in organizational culture', pp. 375-392 in N. M. Ashkanasy, C. P. M. Wilderom and M. F. Petersen (eds) Handbook of Organizational Culture and Climate 2nd Edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Waddington, K. (2011) 'Influencing others' in C. Cox, M. Hill and Lack, V. (eds) Advanced Practice: Implications for Healthcare Professionals. Routledge.
Waddington, K. (2010) 'Collaboration and working with the multidisciplinary team and agencies', pp. 209-225 in C. Cox and M. Hill (eds) Professional Issues in Primary Care Nursing. John Wiley & Sons.
Waddington, K. (2010) 'Leadership and organisational decision making: the nurse's role in policy and practice', pp. 226--242 in C. Cox & M. Hill (eds.) Professional Issues in Primary Care Nursing. John Wiley & Sons.
Conference contributions
Waddington, K. and Michelson, G. (2011) 'Organizational alchemy: transforming gossip into usable knowledge', Sub-theme 10: The Other Sides of Knowledge Work, at 27th EGOS Colloquium: Reassembling Organizations, Gothenburg.
Waddington, K and Lister, J. (2010) 'An academic-practitioner research study of HRM strategies and academic engagement', at Institute of Work Psychology Conference, Sheffield.
Waddington, K. (2010) 'Watch this space: Working between disciplines and paradigms in the scholarship of organizational gossip' at International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Cambridge.
Waddington K. and Lister, J. (2009) 'HRM strategies and academic engagement: bridging the academic-practitioner divide', at British Psychological Society Occupational Psychology Conference, Blackpool.
Waddington, K. and Michelson M. (2008) 'Gossip in organizations: an exploration of knowledge and power issues' at 24th EGOS Colloquium: Upsetting Organizations, Amsterdam.
Waddington, K. and Michelson, G. (2007) 'Analysing gossip to reveal and understand power relationships, political action and reaction to change inside organisations', at 5th Critical Management Studies Conference, Manchester.
Waddington, K. and Michelson, G. (2006) 'New approaches to the challenges of researching organizational gossip', at Advances in Qualitative Methods Conference, Queensland, ustralia
Membership of professional bodies
Graduate member of British Psychological Society and Member of Division of Occupational Psychology and Special Group in Coaching Psychology. Full member of the Institute of Directors (www.iod.com/home/default.aspx).