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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 researches and critiques the construction of long-term unemployment. Her research has explored the historical construction of the employment-unemployment binary and unemployment stigma in the North East of England. She is particularly interested in the relation between time spent unemployed and gender. Her work has included a critical perspective on the inclusion of unemployed people, as well as recommendations to research and practice on reducing the gendered impacts of unemployment. Her background working in social housing, unemployment projects and training for unemployed people underpins this work. Helen is currently researching libraries as third spaces where unemployed people can be supported to explore their identity in terms other than unemployment and seek social inclusion and welfare rights. 

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  • ‘You’d die if you didn’t have fun’: interpreting the experiences of long-term unemployed men as Bakhtinian death-rebirth, Tracey, H. 1 Jun 2025, In: Work, Employment and Society
  • 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
  • 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

Martha Okonkwo EMPLOYEE RETENTION ISSUE IN AVIATION INDUSTRY USING JOB EMBEDDEDNESS A A TOOL TO REMEDY THE SITUATION Start Date: 28/05/2025

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


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