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Gregory Allen is a Sociologist and Senior Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour specialising in cross-cultural management, workplace diversity, leadership, and critical management studies. Gregory’s PhD explored a postcolonial perspective to the representation of Polish host-country nationals by western expatriate managers - a topic on which he has had academic and industry articles published.
Gregory’s approach to teaching business and management studies is interactive and engaging, encouraging discussion and debate. He encourages students to adopt a critical perspective and question the predominant paradigms in the field in an attempt to find innovative and hybrid approaches to contemporary challenges.
Principal investigator on an Essex County Council – funded project researching the under-representation of women in the green environment sector.
Part of a research team investigating the return migration of immigrant GPs working in the NHS.
Interested in the use of postcolonial theory in contemporary cross-cultural management studies.
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Member of the British Sociological Association
