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Christopher Wright

Christopher Wright

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
47
Citations
8273
World Ranking
3422
National Ranking
242

Overview

Christopher Wright is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia and works primarily within the fields of Social Sciences and Engineering. Their research spans several interdisciplinary domains, including Education, Sociology and Political Science, Safety Research, Computer Science Applications, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

The main topics covered in Wright's research include Career Development and Diversity, Teaching and Learning Programming, Indigenous and Place-Based Education, Critical Race Theory in Education, Biomedical and Engineering Education, Electrochemical Sensors and Biosensors, and Conducting Polymers and Applications.

Wright's recent publications reflect a focus on education and social equity themes alongside technical topics. These papers are:

  • "Informal STEM: learning with robotics and game design in an urban context," 2020, Journal of Research on Technology in Education
  • "A Low-Cost Paper Glucose Sensor with Molecularly Imprinted Polyaniline Electrode," 2020, Sensors
  • "Mitigating the need for resiliency for Black girls: reimagining the cultural brokering through a lens of science as white property," 2021, Cultural Studies of Science Education
  • "You Are Going to School: Exploring the Precollege Experiences of First-Year Black Males in Higher Education," 2021, Professional School Counseling
  • "(Designing for) learning computational STEM and arts integration in culturally sustaining learning ecologies," 2020, Information and Learning Sciences

Frequent coauthors in Wright's body of work include:

  • Eli Tucker-Raymond
  • Rasheda Likely
  • Amon Millner
  • Brian Gravel
  • Ayana Allen-Handy

The venues in which Wright publishes are diverse and reflect the multidisciplinary nature of their work. These venues include:

  • Sensors
  • Journal of Research on Technology in Education
  • Cultural Studies of Science Education
  • Professional School Counseling
  • Information and Learning Sciences

Best Publications

  • An Inconvenient Truth: How Organizations Translate Climate Change into Business as Usual

    Christopher Wright;Daniel Nyberg

  • Climate Change, Capitalism, and Corporations

    Christopher Wright;Daniel Nyberg

  • “Hippies on the third floor”: Climate Change, Narrative Identity and the Micro-Politics of Corporate Environmentalism

    Christopher Wright;Daniel Nyberg;David Grant

  • Reinventing human resource management: Business partners, internal consultants and the limits to professionalization

    Christopher Wright

  • The COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons on building more equal and sustainable societies

    Kristin van Barneveld;Michael Quinlan;Peter Kriesler;Anne Junor

  • Does It Really Work? Re-Assessing the Impact of Pre-Departure Cross-Cultural Training on Expatriate Adjustment

    Jonas F. Puck;Markus G. Kittler;Christopher Wright

  • Climate Change, Capitalism, and Corporations: Processes of Creative Self-Destruction

    Christopher Wright;Daniel Nyberg

  • Management innovation through standardization: Consultants as standardizers of organizational practice

    Christopher Wright;Andrew J Sturdy;Nick Wylie

  • The Management of Labour: A History of Australian Employers

    Christopher Wright

  • Future Imaginings: Organizing in Response to Climate Change

    Christopher Wright;Daniel Nyberg;Christian De Cock;Gail Whiteman

  • Working with passion: Emotionology, corporate environmentalism and climate change

    Christopher Wright;Daniel Nyberg

  • The false promise of technological determinism: the case of enterprise resource planning systems

    David Grant;Richard Hall;Nick Wailes;Christopher Wright

  • Take the money and run? Organisational boundaries and consultants' roles

    Jim Kitay;Christopher Wright

  • Corporate corruption of the environment: sustainability as a process of compromise†

    Daniel Nyberg;Christopher Wright

  • From prophets to profits: The occupational rhetoric of management consultants

    Jim Kitay;Christopher Wright

  • Governance of Labor Standards in Australian and German Garment Supply Chains: The Impact of Rana Plaza:

    Elke Schuessler;Stephen J. Frenkel;Chris F. Wright

  • Incorporating citizens: corporate political engagement with climate change in Australia:

    Daniel Nyberg;André Spicer;Christopher Wright

  • The active client: The boundary-spanning roles of internal consultants as gatekeepers, brokers and partners of their external counterparts

    Andrew Sturdy;Christopher Wright

  • Changing the World?: The Politics of Activism and Impact in the Neoliberal University

    Carl Rhodes;Christopher Wright;Alison Pullen

  • A Consulting Diaspora? Enterprising Selves as Agents of Enterprise

    Andrew Sturdy;Christopher Wright

  • Climate-proofing management research

    Daniel Nyberg;Christopher Wright

  • International and Comparative Employment Relations : National Regulation, Global Changes

    Greg J. Bamber;Russell D. Lansbury;Nick Wailes;Chris F. Wright

Frequent Co-Authors

David Grant
David Grant Griffith University
Michael E. Mann
Michael E. Mann Pennsylvania State University
Stephan Lewandowsky
Stephan Lewandowsky University of Bristol
Patrick D. Nunn
Patrick D. Nunn University of the Sunshine Coast
Jean Jouzel
Jean Jouzel Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement
Fran Baum
Fran Baum University of Adelaide
Sharon Friel
Sharon Friel Australian National University
Andrew J. Hoffman
Andrew J. Hoffman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jean-Pascal Gond
Jean-Pascal Gond City, University of London
Michael Quinlan
Michael Quinlan University of New South Wales

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