Dr Helen Mussell
Lecturer in Organizational Studies
Director of Online Learning
- mussellh@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2068 8841
- Aberconway Building, Colum Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF10 3EU
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
I am a Lecturer in Organizational Studies in the Management, Employment, and Organization section, and the Director of Online Learning for Cardiff Business School.
My research is highly interdisciplinary. I am published across philosophy (ethics, epistemology, and ontology), heterodox economics, business ethics, gender studies, and social psychology.
I completed my BA (Hons) in Women’s Studies at Lancaster University, and hold an MPhil and PhD in Gender Studies from the University of Cambridge, where I was Cambridge Political Economy Society Trust Scholar (2012-2016).
I am an Honorary Research Associate at the Centre for Business Research, Judge Business School, Cambridge, and a Senior Member of Newnham College, Cambridge.
Biography
Prior to academia, I pursued a career in industry between undergraduate and postgraduate studies, in sectors including media, publishing, and supply chain management. This career brought me into direct contact with organizational ethics, including corporate social responsibility and sustainability, and relatedly with organizational culture issues regarding gender, leadership and management in the workplace.
Publications
2021
- Mussell, H. 2021. The silenced and unsought beneficiary: investigating epistemic injustice in the fiduciary. Business Ethics Quarterly (10.1017/beq.2021.4)
2020
- Mussell, H. 2020. Leadership and the fiduciary: addressing asymmetrical power by caring well. In: Paradox and Power in Caring Leadership Critical and Philosophical Reflections. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 86-97.
2017
- Mussell, H. 2017. Who dares to care? (In the world of finance). Feminist Economics 24(3), pp. 113. (10.1080/13545701.2017.1390319)
- Mussell, H. 2017. The nature of social responsibility: Exploring emancipatory ends. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 47(2), pp. 222. (10.1111/jtsb.12119)
2016
- Mussell, H. 2016. The truth of the matter. Hypatia 31(3), pp. 537-553. (10.1111/hypa.12258)
Teaching
I am module leader and teacher of Organizational Behaviour (BST612) on the Executive MBA programme
My research focusses on organizational ethics, including fiduciary duty, trust, and power in organizations, and includes ethics in finance. I am interested in epistemic virtues and vices in organizational contexts, and how certain economic interpretations of key concepts affect organizational behaviour.
I am a member of the Cambridge Social Ontology Group (www.csog.econ.cam.ac.uk)
A monograph, Care Ethics, Social Responsibility & Organizations has been commissioned by Palgrave Macmillan for publication in 2021.
Supervision
Potential PhD candidates interested in the following areas of research are welcome to contact me:
- Organizational Ethics (including Ethics of Care)
- Applied feminist philosophy in organizational contexts
- Epistemic vices and organizations
- Social ontological approach to studying organizations