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Dr Helen Tracey

Assistant Professor

Department: Newcastle Business School

Prior to joining Newcastle Business School she worked in the public sector for over sixteen years. During this time she gained a wide range of experience in Human Resource Management, in particular performance management and change management. 

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Campus Address

Newcastle Business School
City Campus East


Helen's research is focussed on resistance, which she has interpreted primarily through the theories of Mikhail Bakhtin. Her current research positions reading as a form of resistance as well as investigating the experiences writers and those working in public libraries and independent bookshops. She is interested in how bodily experience is expressed, particularly through metaphors, and has used ethnography and creative methods, including visual research, to understand this phenomenon. Her PhD focussed on the lived experience of unemployment from an embodied, phenomenological perspective. Key aspects of her research include stigma, social class, othering, masculinity, humour and resistance. Helen’s research interests arose from her previous career working in social housing and local government. She is also interested in creative pedagogy and has been programme lead of the University's undergraduate human resource management programmes for over 5 years.

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • Ecoliteracy and ecopedagogy for environmental sustainability in education In support of ecocentric, arts-based business education, Kopnina, H., Black, K., Tracey, H. 26 Nov 2024, In: Visions for Sustainability
  • Inconvenient Academic Workers? Collective (Re)humanisation through the Dialogue of a Freirean Reading Circle, Gatto, M., Tracey, H., Callahan, J., Worst, S. 23 Sep 2024, In: Culture and Organization
  • ‘You’d die if you didn’t have fun’: interpreting the experiences of long-term unemployed men as Bakhtinian death-rebirth, Tracey, H. 22 Nov 2024, In: Work, Employment and Society
  • It's a game of skill: playful learning through board game design, Groppel-Wegener, A., Tracey, H., Vigurs, K. 11 Nov 2021, Organisation and Human Resource Management, London, Taylor & Francis

  • Human Resource Management MSc September 01 2015
  • Fellow (FHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA) 2016


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