About
Dr Leighann Spencer is a senior lecturer in Organisational Behaviour at the University of Liverpool Management School.
Her research focuses on understanding people’s experiences of, and relationship to, their work, particularly when those experiences are negative (i.e., workplace mistreatment, adverse and/or “mundane” working conditions). Here, her research seeks to understand how individuals conceive and experience “good” and “bad” work and how these might change over time. She also has a keen interest in debates pertaining to the impact of management scholarship, and has recently published a book calling attention to the idea that the impact of academics is not solely achieved through their research and engagement activities, and that their teaching has the potential to change management practice and thinking. These interests are threaded together through her expertise and strong interest in qualitative methods, notably the use of qualitative diaries. In addition to the publication of a book on Qualitative Diary Methods, recent methodology projects have focused on the emergence of transparency templates in qualitative research in management and organisation studies, and the incorporation of sound into multimodal analysis.
As of January 2021, Leighann is a member of the Journal of Management Studies (JMS; FT50) editorial review board.
Prizes or Honours
- Teaching Excellence Award (University of Liverpool Management School, 2025)
- Teaching Excellence Award (University of Liverpool Management School, 2024)
- Teaching and Student Experience Early Career Award (University of Liverpool Management School, 2022)
- Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Teacher of the Year (Liverpool University Guild Students Union, 2022)
- Karen Legge Prize (Journal of Management Studies, 2021)