Katie Green

Katie is a senior lecturer in Leadership development in the department of people and performance. She currently teaches modules in Leadership and Practice and Introduction to Human Resource Management and has taught modules in Organisational behaviour, Strategic Leadership, HRD, Organisational Change and Research Methods. Katie has worked as a research associate in leadership development on a large $100,000 ESRC funded project and a senior lecturer and scheme director in leadership.

Katie’s research focusses on leadership development and leadership learning and she is particularly interested in exploring practice based and collective models of leadership and management learning. Her work draws on theories of practice, leadership as practice and activity theory to explore the way in which managers and leaders learn together in collaborative contexts.

Katie has a PhD in organisational change and learning in the NHS from Lancaster University. Her thesis drew on ethnographic methods and Cultural Historical Activity Theory to explore messy and turbulent organisational learning dynamics in health care work. Since then, Katie has carried out research into leadership development and leadership learning in health and social care contexts. Katie is particularly interested in the ways in which leaders and managers learn through periods of intense change and the way in which Cultural Historical Activity Theory can help enhance understanding of leadership learning dynamics. Katie has a strong desire to engage with research that has the potential to make a difference to individuals and their working lives.