Staff profile

Cat is an Assistant Professor having graduated with a PhD in Management from Durham University Business School. Cat's research interests are predominantly related to working lives and critical understandings of low-wage work and working class narratives. Having conducted her PhD research with a local food bank (where she remains a Trustee), she is also interested in the intersection of low-wage work, poverty and support services and charities such as food banks. Cat specialises in qualitative methodologies and is specifically interested in developing more compassionate and inclusive methodologies for accessing hard-to-reach participants. 

In both teaching and research, Cat is also interested in the concept of Futures Thinking and the development of transformative pedagogies that shift management education towards long-term thinking and more responsible management practices. 

Esteem Indicators

2024: Teaching and Learning Awards 2024, Durham University. Award in Innovation in Teaching and Learning (Facing the Future)

2023: (with Professor Jo McBride) The 83rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston. Award for Best Critical Gender Paper. (Gendering "The Hidden Injuries of Class": In-Work Poverty, Precarity, and Working Women Using Food Banks in Britain)

 

 

Book review

• Spellman, C. (2023). The Living Wage: Advancing a Global Movement, Tony Dobbins and Peter Prowse (eds), Routledge, 2022. 216 pp, ISBN 978‐0‐367‐51487‐7, £32,00. New Technology, Work and Employment, 38(3), 575-577. https://doi.org/10.1111/ntwe.12267

Journal Article

• Spellman, C. (online). Intersectional Reflexivity and an Uncomfortable Account of Researcher Privilege. Management Learning, https://doi.org/10.1177/13505076241290808
• Spellman, C., & McBride, J. (online). Gendering “The Hidden Injuries of Class”: In‐Work Poverty, Precarity, and Working Women Using Food Banks in Britain. Gender, Work & Organization, https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.13237
• Hirst, J., & Spellman, C. (2024). The Case For Embedding Futures Thinking in University Teaching & Learning. Enhancing Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 1, 97-109. https://doi.org/10.62512/etlhe.1