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Esther Priyadharshini
Research InterestsI joined CARE in the year 2000 after completing my Ph.D at the School of Management in Lancaster University. All my prior education was in India and I explored the last of these for my doctoral thesis: “A Critical Ethnography on the Production of the Indian MBA Discourse”. I combined ethnography and discourse analysis, to analyse the MBA education in three business schools in India, especially the formation of MBA identities within the discourse. I have since continued some of these themes in my work here at CARE. My research interests are invariably inspired by developments in feminist, post-structural and post-colonial theories and at the moment, are in these areas: - Learning of identities in everyday settings (like the learning of gendered subjects in corporate conferences; the learning of professionals in workplaces; the learning of truants out of school). Methodological issues – to do with the changing nature of ethnography as method, especially when used to ‘study up’ (i.e., when the focus is on (relatively) privileged subjects). Most of my teaching is on the Ed.D course and some of it is with other doctoral and masters research students in the school. I supervise students working across professions, in primary, secondary, higher and further education, nursing education, counselling and in other health management and education sectors. Ethnography, gender and the examination of professional identities tend to figure in their work in one way or the other.
Research Projects Investigation of behaviour management strategies for the Lowestoft partnership of schools: A study of current behaviour management strategies across the partnership in order to develop a better understanding of such practices between schools and encourage some consistency in the treatment of pupils as they pass through the various levels. Project undertaken with John Gordon. TEACH (Training, Education and Action for coping at Home) project: An ethnographic study of stroke services in Norwich Community Hospital. The aim was to understand the admissions & discharge processes from the point of the patients and professionals involved to deliver a more effective service and educational programme. This was a Knowledge Transfer Partnership project undertaken with Rob Walker & Christian Blickem. Internally funded project: A covert, critical study of 'women in management/leadership' conferences organised to educate women into corporate mangement. This was undertaken with two other colleagues from Lancaster and York universities (Dr. Carole Elliott and Dr. Linda Perriton). The methodology of covert ethnography was experimented with. The outcomes of the project were written up as academic papers for journals and seminars. Attendance Research: A research project undertaken for the LEA to understand poor attendance and truancy among Year 11 students in Park High School, King’s Lynn. The project was meant to understand student perspectives of truancy and used students as co-researchers. Change for the Better: A research project undertaken for the TTA, jointly with colleagues, looking into the reasons why people changed careers to move into teaching and the process of such decision making, with a view to improving recruitment into the teaching profession. LTSN:BEST evaluation: An internal evaluation undertaken jointly with colleagues for the Learning and Teaching Support Network: Business Education Support Team based in UEA. List of PublicationsPriyadharshini, E., ‘Reading the Rhetoric of Otherness in the Discourse of Business and Economics: Towards a Postdisciplinary Practice,’ in Anshuman Prasad (Ed.), Postcolonialism and Organizational Analysis, pp. 170-192, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Priyadharshini, E. and Robinson-Pant, A., ‘The Attractions of Teaching: An investigation into why people change careers to teach’, Journal of Education for Teaching, pp. 95-112, Vol. 29, Issue 3, 2003. Priyadharshini, E., ‘Coming Unstuck: Thinking Otherwise about ‘Studying Up’’, Anthropology & Education Quarterly, pp.1-19, Vol. 34, Issue 4, December 2003. Blickem, C., & Priyadharshini, E., 'From the Objectifying Gaze to Compound Vision: Using Patient Narratives in the Education of Health Professionals' in John, K. Richards (Ed.), International Perspectives on Education and Training, pp. 251-264, Athens: ATINER, ISBN: 960-6672-03-4, 2006 Belton, T., & Priyadharshini, E., 'Boredom and Schooling: A cross-disciplinary perspective', Cambridge Journal of Education, pp. 579-595, Vol. 37, Issue 4, Dec 2007. Blickem, C., & Priyadharshini, E., 'Patient narratives: The potential for 'pateint-centred' interprofessional education?', Journal of Interprofessional Care, pp. 1-14, Vol. 21, Issue 6, Dec 2007. Papers Currently Under Review by Journals Priyadharshini, E., Perriton, L. & Elliott, C., 'The ethics and politics of critical feminist research in management', to Qualitative Research. Perriton, L., Elliott, C., & Priyadharshini, E., 'Knowledge diffusion as symbolic violence. The case of a Women and Leadership conference' with Human Resource Development International. Working Paper Priyadharshini, E., 'Travelling with Trickster: Thinking through research predicaments'. Conference Papers Priyadharshini, E., ‘The Rhetoric of Otherness in the Discourse of Business and Economics: A Postcolonial Perspective’. Paper presented at the ‘First International Critical Management Studies Conference,’ UMIST, Manchester, July 1999. Priyadharshini, E., ‘A Methodological Response to the Phenomenon of Globalisation: The Case for an Anthropological Orientation to Research on Education’. Paper presented at the conference on “Globalisation and Challenges for Education”, National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi, December 2001. Priyadharshini, E., Perriton, L & Elliott, C., ‘Could this be a feminist ethnography? The politics and pleasures of covert research’. Conference on “Advances in Qualitative Methods”, International Institute of Qualitative Research, Banff, Canada, May 2003. Elliott, C., Perriton, L., & Priyadharshini, E., 'Doing Gender in the Transnational Captialist Class', British Academy of Management Conference, St. Andrews Aug 30 - Sept 1 2004 - was awarded the Best Paper prize in the Gender and Management Track. Elliott, C., Perriton, L., & Priyadharshini, E., 'From Prima to Good Housekeeping: the practice of training and the reproduction of middle-class femininity', 4th International Critical Management Studies Conference, University of Cambridge, 4th - 6th July 2005 Blickem, C., & Priyadharshini, E., 'Telling Tales: The use of narratives in the education of health professionals' ATINER conference, Athens, May 2005 Priyadharshini, E., 'Reclaiming a Trickster subjectivity for researchers', Discourse, Power and Resisitance Conference 5, 20 - 22 April 2006, MMUInvited Research SeminarsConformity and Resistance within the Indian 'MBA Discourse'. Delivered at the EDU-DEV seminar series at UEA, Jan 28th 2002 Dilemmas in feminist research: The case of covert ethnography. Delivered at the Institute of Education, Manchester Metropolitan University, Nov 5th 2003'Impossible Subjects: Studying truanting students", Delivered at the Faculty of Humanities and Educational Sciences, Almeria University, Spain, Oct 2004 Book Reviews Priyadharshini, E., 'Practising Methodologies'. Review of Mieke Bal, Ed., (1999) 'The Practice of Cultural Analysis: Exposing Interdisciplinary Interpretation'. And, George E. Marcus, Ed. (1999) 'Critical Anthropology Now: Unexpected Contexts, Shifting Constituencies, Changing Agendas', for Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 2003. http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/jouvert/v7is1/priyad.htm Priyadharshini, E., Review of 'Feminist Ways of Knowing: Towards theorising the person for radical adult education' by Anne B. Ryan (2001), International Journal of Educational Development, pp. 698-700, 2002. Priyadharshini, E., 'Politics in Education. Sponsored Grant-Maintained Schools and Religious Diversity' by Geoffrey Walford (2001) for Intercultural Education, 13-2, pp. 231-232, 2002. Priyadharshini, E., 'Intercultural Alliances: Critical Transformation' by MaryJane Collier (Ed.) for Intercultural Education. Research Reports Priyadharshini, E., and Phillips, T., ‘A qualitative investigation into the phenomenon of trauncy at Park High School’, October 2002 Priyadharshini, E. and Schostak, J., ‘Recruitment Research Among Members of Local Businesses’, For The Norwich Rotary Club, March 2002. Priyadharshini, E. and Schostak, J., ‘Formative Internal Evaluation Report BEST-LTSN’, December 2001. Priyadharshini, E. and Robinson-Pant, A., ‘Change for the Better Project Report’, For the TTA, November 2001.
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