Researcher:
Dr. Simon Kelly
Simon Kelly completed his
undergraduate degree in Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management in
the Department of Organisation, Work and Technology at Lancaster University
Management School in 1999. Later in the same year he was awarded a place on an ESRC funded Ph.D. CASE studentship in the Department of Sociology, Lancaster
University, working in collaboration with the Department of Trade and Industry
(DTI). His Ph.D. thesis (supervised by Prof. John Law and Dr. Elizabeth Shove)
is entitled ‘Making IT Work and Making Do: A study of best practice,
computing and routine work in building firms’ and critically examines
attempts made by the DTI to promote best practices for the planning,
implementation and use of information and communications technology within the
UK construction industry. Simon’s current research interests concern the
relationship between technology and organisation – in particular the adoption
and adaptation of information and communication technologies within everyday
organizational settings, and the role of the manager/leader as a promoter of new
technology and driver of organizational change.
