Dr Gail Hebson

Dr Gail Hebson

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Biography

I joined MMU in 2021 as a Reader in People and Performance. My research interests focus on employment, gender inequalities and job quality. I am particularly interested in using qualitative methodologies to illuminate the nature of working experiences. My current research interests include apprenticeship training as a lever to improve job quality and skills, recruitment and retention in the social care sector and gender equality in Professional Services Firms.

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Teaching

I teach on human resource management at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. I teach on the Chartered Management Degree Apprenticeship programme, the MSc in Human Resource Management and the Executive MBA programme. I supervise a number students on MBA projects working in the NHS, the pharmaceutical sector and management consultancy.

I have extensive experience of PhD supervision and have supervised students researching topics including; skills and job quality in the retail sector, gender equality and flexible working in Professional Services Firms, precarious work in Greater Manchester, age discrimination experienced by mature students and emotional labour in occupational therapy and teaching occupations.

Research outputs

  • Books (authored/edited/special issues)

    Grimshaw, D., Fagan, C., Hebson, G., Tavora, I. (2017) Making work more equal: A new labour market segmentation approach.

  • Journal articles

    Grimshaw, D., Rubery, J., Cooke, F.L., Hebson, G. (2023) 'Fragmenting work: Theoretical contributions and insights for a future of work research and policy agenda.' Human Resource Management Journal, 33(3) pp. 578-591.

    Horton, A.M., Hebson, G., Holman, D. (2023) 'A Qualitative Study on Patients’ Use of Emotion Regulation Strategies During Therapeutic Relationships.' British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 86(1) pp. 53-61.

    Al-Asfahani, L., Hebson, G., Bresnen, M. (2022) 'Reinforced or disrupted ideal worker norms in the pandemic? Analyzing the gendered impact of the pandemic on professional specialisms in a Professional Services Firm in Kuwait.' Gender, Work and Organization,

    Horton, A., Holman, D., Hebson, G. (2022) 'Occupational and Physical Therapists’ Use of Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Strategies during Patient Interactions: A Qualitative Study.' American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 76(5)

    Horton, A., Hebson, G., Holman, D. (2021) 'A longitudinal study of the turning points and trajectories of therapeutic relationship development in occupational and physical therapy.' BMC Health Services Research, 21(1)

    Herman, E., Rubery, J., Hebson, G. (2021) 'A case of employers never letting a good crisis go to waste? An investigation of how work becomes even more precarious for hourly paid workers under Covid.' Industrial Relations Journal, 52(5) pp. 442-457.

    Rubery, J., Hebson, G. (2018) 'Applying a gender lens to employment relations: Revitalisation, resistance and risks.' Journal of Industrial Relations, 60(3) pp. 414-436.

    Rubery, J., Grimshaw, D., Hebson, G., Ugarte, S.M. (2015) '"It's All About Time": Time as Contested Terrain in the Management and Experience of Domiciliary Care Work in England.' Human Resource Management, 54(5) pp. 753-772.

    McBride, A., Hebson, G., Holgate, J. (2015) 'Intersectionality: are we taking enough notice in the field of work and employment relations?.' Work, Employment and Society, 29(2) pp. 331-341.

    Hebson, G., Rubery, J., Grimshaw, D. (2015) 'Rethinking job satisfaction in care work: looking beyond the care debates.' Work, Employment and Society, 29(2) pp. 314-330.

    Rubery, J., Grimshaw, D., Hebson, G. (2013) 'Exploring the limits to local authority social care commissioning: Competing pressures, variable practices, and unresponsive providers.' Public Administration, 91(2) pp. 419-437.

    Hebson, G., Cox, A. (2011) 'The Gendered Implications of Corporate Value Change.' Gender, Work and Organization, 18(2) pp. 182-201.

    Hebson, G. (2009) 'Renewing class analysis in studies of the workplace: A comparison of working-class and middle-class women's aspirations and identities.' Sociology, 43(1) pp. 27-44.

    Hebson, G., Earnshaw, J., Marchington, L. (2007) 'Too emotional to be capable? the changing nature of emotion work in definitions of 'capable teaching'.' Journal of Education Policy, 22(6) pp. 675-694.

    Holgate, J., Hebson, G., McBride, A. (2006) 'Why gender and ‘difference’ matters: a critical appraisal of industrial relations research.' Industrial Relations Journal, 37(4) pp. 310-328.

    Fagan, C., Rubery, J., Grimshaw, D., Smith, M., Hebson, G., Figueiredo, H. (2005) 'Gender mainstreaming in the enlarged European Union: recent developments in the European employment strategy and Social Inclusion Process.' Industrial Relations Journal, 36(6) pp. 568-591.

    Grimshaw, D., Earnshaw, J., Hebson, G. (2003) 'Private sector provision of supply teachers: A case of legal swings and professional roundabouts.' Journal of Education Policy, 18(3) pp. 267-288.

    Marchington, M., Cooke, F.L., Hebson, G. (2003) 'Performing for the 'customer': Managing housing benefit operations across organisational boundaries.' Local Government Studies, 29(1) pp. 51-74.

    Hebson, G., Grimshaw, D., Marchington, M. (2003) 'PPPs and the changing public sector ethos: Case-study evidence from the health and local authority sectors.' Work, Employment and Society, 17(3) pp. 481-501.