Brigid Carroll

Brigid Carroll
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Auckland
Thesis
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Auckland

Brigid Jan Carroll is a New Zealand management academic, and is a full professor at the University of Auckland, specialising in leadership identity and practice, organisational theory and qualitative research methods.

Academic career

Carroll completed a PhD titled Mapping the Professional Who Manages: Identity, Narrative and Spatiality at the University of Auckland.[1] Carroll then joined the faculty of the Department of Management and International Business at the University of Auckland, rising to full professor and giving her inaugural lecture in 2021.[2] She holds the Fletcher Building Employee Educational Fund Chair in Leadership, and is the third person to do so, after Brad Jackson and Kevin Low.[3][2][4][5]

Carroll is interested in leadership, and has researched different leadership practices and mindsets, as well as how people in leadership can support and encourage leadership around them, creating a leadership team. She also teaches organisational theory and qualitative research methods, and was part of a research collaboration with Professor Kerr Inkson around how compliance issues were affecting boards of directors in New Zealand.[5][6][7] She said, "Ironically we might be in a world of too many leaders and not enough leadership. Research has already started to explore ‘anti-leadering’ and ‘leaderlessness’ as proactive strategies to create more leadership. Therefore we need to move beyond feeling like a leader all or even most of the time. There is a far larger repertoire possible."[2]

Carroll is an associate editor on the journal Leadership, and has published three co-edited books.[8][9] She has co-convened at the European Group of Organization Studies, and was invited to teach PhD courses at the Copenhagen Business School.[9] In 2014 and 2020 she was awarded the University of Auckland Business School Research Excellence Award, and received a teaching award in 2019.[10][9]

Selected works

References

  1. ^Carroll, Brigid (2003). Mapping the Professional Who Manages: Identity, Narrative and Spatiality (PhD thesis). ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland. hdl:2292/1027.
  2. ^ abc"To lead or not to lead? That is the question – The University of Auckland". www.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
  3. ^sbar710. "BRIGID CARROLL". ASPIRE. Retrieved 6 July 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ^"New leadership concept re-shaping NZ". NZ Herald. 6 July 2024. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
  5. ^ ab"Carroll, Brigid". SAGE Publications Inc. 20 June 2024. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
  6. ^"Research shows board directors hampered by compliance issues – The University of Auckland". www.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
  7. ^"Executive Success: Making leadership more than a word". NZ Herald. 6 July 2024. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
  8. ^"Leadership". SAGE Publications Inc. 27 October 2015. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
  9. ^ abc"Research Excellence Award winners 2020 – The University of Auckland". www.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
  10. ^"Academic profile: Professor Brigid Carroll". profiles.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 6 July 2024.