Yr Athro Sarah Hurlow
Reader in Leadership
- hurlows@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2087 5756
- R30, Adeilad Aberconwy, Rhodfa Colum, Cathays, Caerdydd, CF10 3EU
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Sarah has worked closely with a range of private and public sector organisations to design and facilitate leadership development programmes, and was Director of the Executive MBA at Cardiff Business School for three years.
She has a particular interest in strategies for supporting the reflexive and collaborative practice of leaders, including the theory and practice of coaching and storytelling. Current research projects include an evaluation of a ‘leader as coach’ initiative in the workplace, and the role of coaching as part of the Executive MBA educational expericne.
Sarah is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Association.
Sarah has held a number of management roles including Deputy Head of the Management, Organisation & Employment (MEO) section. She is a member of the Business School’s Shadow Management Board and the Steering Group for Academic Engagement that is part of the University’s Education Portfolio for Change. She was an elected member of the Council of the British Academy of Management with a specific role in the development of the ‘Management Knowledge & Education’ initiative. Sarah has undertaken a number of external examiner responsibilities, including most recently at the University of West of England.
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Qualifications
- PhD, Cardiff: 'The Language of Leadership', a post structuralist study of leadership in local government
- MBA: University of Glamorgan
- PGCE(FE): Cardiff University
- BA (Hons) English, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Anrhydeddau a Dyfarniadau
2016 Best Developmental Paper ‘Leadership & Leadership Development’ Track, Annual British Academy of Management Conference, Newcastle, 6-8 September, Newcastle – jointly with Darren Caudle
2010 Best Doctoral Dissertation: Academy of Management (Critical Management Studies Division)
Aelodaethau proffesiynol
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA)
Cyhoeddiadau
2022
- Hurlow, S. 2022. Revisiting the relationship between coaching and learning: problems and possibilities. Academy of Management Learning & Education 21(1) (10.5465/amle.2019.0345)
2019
- Hurlow, S. 2019. Coaching as identity work. Presented at: Academy of Management Learning and Education Paper Development Workshop., Bath, UK, 8 April 2019.
2018
- Hurlow, S. 2018. Executive coaching and learning: The problems and possibilities. Presented at: Third Bi-annual International Columbia University Coaching Conference, New York, 17-19 October 2018.
2016
- Hurlow, S. 2016. Rethinking leadership coaching as identity work. Presented at: Columbia University: 2nd International Columbia Coaching Conference, New York, 19-21 October 2016.
2014
- Hurlow, S. 2014. The employable self: a case of graduate identity work. Presented at: 11th International Conference on Organisational Discourse, Cardiff, 9-11 July 2014.
2013
- Hurlow, S. 2013. Research-informed teaching: The innovative possibilities and practical problems.. Presented at: Association of Business Schools Teaching and Learning Conference, Nottingham, 23-24 May 2013.
2012
- Hurlow, S. 2012. Enhancing students' employability skills: rhetoric and reality. Presented at: Association of Business Schools Teaching & Learning Conference: Innovation in Challenging Times, Manchester, 24-25 April 2012.
2009
- Hurlow, S. 2009. An exploration of the discursive construction of emotionally intelligent leadership. Presented at: Professional Development Workshop: Developing Proposals Together – Mentoring To Advance Leadership Research, Academy of Management Conference, Chicago, USA, 7-12 August 2009. pp. 430-444.
2008
- Hurlow, S. 2008. Making leadership visible. Presented at: First Workshop on Imagining Business, Oxford, UK, 26-27 July 2008.
- Hurlow, S. 2008. Language of leadership. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
2006
- Hurlow, S. 2006. Visible leadership. Presented at: 5th International Studying Leadership Conference, Cranfield, UK, 4-6 December 2006.
2005
- Hurlow, S. 2005. Leadership in local government. Presented at: Employment Research Unit (ERU) Conference, Cardiff, UK, 6-7 September 2005.
2004
- Hurlow, S. 2004. Playing at/with leadership. Presented at: Studying Leadership 3rd International Conference: Leadership Refrains, Encounters, Conversations and Enchantments, Exeter, UK., 15-16 December 2004.
2003
- Hurlow, S. 2003. The destabilising movement: poststructuralism and critical management education. Presented at: 3rd International Conference on Critical Management Studies., Lancaster, UK, 7-9 July 2003.
2002
- Hurlow, S. 2002. Learning as deconstructive practice. Presented at: Employment Research Unit Conference (ERU), Cardiff, UK, 10-11 September 2002.
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Teaching commitments
- Executive MBA: Leadership & Professional Development
- MSc Business Strategy & Entrepreneurship: Leadership & Personal Development
Research interests
- The relationship between theories of learning and coaching practice
- Coaching as a critical reflexive practice
- The politics of coaching: how coaching is legitimised rhetorically; coaching as a disciplinary practice; coaching as a form of resistance
- Coaching as identity work
PhD supervision research interests
- Leadership development
- Coaching
- Poststructuralism
