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Overview

Laurie Cohen is affiliated with the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom and has a body of research primarily situated within the social sciences. Their academic contributions span several subfields including sociology and political science, gender studies, public administration, organizational behavior, human resource management, and research and theory.

Their recent publications focus on themes related to gender diversity and inequality, emotional labor in professions, social work education and practice, work-family balance challenges, gender politics and representation, as well as management and organizational studies. The main topics covered by their work include:

  • Gender Diversity and Inequality
  • Emotional Labor in Professions
  • Social Work Education and Practice
  • Work-Family Balance Challenges
  • Gender Politics and Representation
  • Management and Organizational Studies
  • Nursing education and management

Their notable recent papers are:

  • "Experiencing Gender Regimes: Accounts of Women Professors in Mexico, the UK and Sweden" (2021), published in Work Employment and Society
  • "Making Sense of Our Working Lives: The concept of the career imagination" (2021), published in Organization Theory
  • "Women in extraordinary times: the impact of external jolts on professional women's careers" (2020), published in Journal of Professions and Organization

Laurie Cohen frequently publishes alongside co-authors including Joanne Duberley, Kate Kirk, Alison Edgley, Stephen Timmons, and Beatriz Adriana Bustos Torres. Of these, Kate Kirk is a notable collaborator with shared interests particularly in emotional labor and nursing contexts.

Their research appears regularly in several scholarly venues that align with their thematic interests. These include:

  • Journal of Advanced Nursing
  • Work Employment and Society
  • Organization Theory
  • Journal of Professions and Organization
  • Journal of Nursing Management

Laurie Cohen's work addresses complex intersections of gender and professional life, especially focusing on emotional labor and career dynamics within challenging social and organizational environments. Their contribution extends to examining how gender regimes and external societal factors influence careers, with particular attention to women academics and professionals.

Best Publications

  • Everyday Sexism: Evidence for Its Incidence, Nature, and Psychological Impact From Three Daily Diary Studies

    Janet K. Swim;Lauri L. Hyers;Laurie L. Cohen;Melissa J. Ferguson

  • African American College Students’ Experiences With Everyday Racism: Characteristics of and Responses to These Incidents

    Janet K. Swim;Lauri L. Hyers;Laurie L. Cohen;Davita C. Fitzgerald

  • Overt, Covert, and Subtle Sexism. A Comparison Between the Attitudes Toward Women and Modern Sexism Scales

    Janet K. Swim;Laurie L. Cohen

  • The psychology of careers in industrial-organizational settings: a critical but appreciative analysis

    John Arnold;Laurie Cohen

  • Spaces that Matter: Gender Performativity and Organizational Space

    Melissa Tyler;Laurie Cohen

  • Social constructionism in the study of career: Accessing the parts that other approaches cannot reach

    Laurie Cohen;Joanne Duberley;Mary Mallon

  • Experiencing Everyday Prejudice and Discrimination

    Janet K. Swim;Laurie L. Cohen;Lauri L. Hyers

  • Time for a Change? Women's Accounts of the Move from Organizational Careers to Self‐Employment

    Mary Mallon;Laurie Cohen

  • Entrepreneurial Identities: Reflections from Two Case Studies

    Laurie Cohen;Gill Musson

  • The Transition from Organisational Employment to Portfolio Working: Perceptions of `Boundarylessness'

    Laurie Cohen;Mary Mallon

  • Working for an algorithm: Power asymmetries and agency in online work settings

    Corentin Curchod;Gerardo Patriotta;Laurie Cohen;Nicolas Neysen

  • The Differential Impact of Gender Ratios on Women and Men: Tokenism, Self-Confidence, and Expectations

    Laurie L. Cohen;Janet K. Swim

  • Understanding Organizations through Language

    Susanne Tietze;Laurie Cohen;Gill Musson

  • My brilliant career ? Using stories as a methodological tool in careers research

    Laurie Cohen;Mary Mallon

  • ’Women's business’: Are women entrepreneurs breaking new ground or simply balancing the demands of ‘women's work’ in a new way?

    Eileen Green;Laurie Cohen

  • Constructing Scientific Careers: Change, Continuity and Context

    Joanne Duberley;Laurie Cohen;Mary Mallon

  • Timing of first sexual intercourse in a relationship: Expectations, experiences, and perceptions of others

    Laurie L. Cohen;R. Lance Shotland

  • ‘Remember I’m the bloody architect!’: Architects, organizations and discourses of profession

    Laurie Cohen;Adrian John Wilkinson;John Arnold;Rachael Finn

  • Management in/as Comic Relief: Queer Theory and Gender Performativity in The Office

    Melissa Tyler;Laurie Cohen

  • ‘Doublethink’: The prevalence and function of contradiction in accounts of organizational life

    Amal El-Sawad;John Arnold;Laurie Cohen

  • Gendering career capital: An investigation of scientific careers

    Joanne Duberley;Laurie Cohen

Frequent Co-Authors

John Arnold
John Arnold Loughborough University
Janet K. Swim
Janet K. Swim Pennsylvania State University
Kevin Daniels
Kevin Daniels University of East Anglia
Melissa J. Ferguson
Melissa J. Ferguson Yale University
Melvin M. Mark
Melvin M. Mark Pennsylvania State University

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