Dr Tracey Rosell
FHEA MSc LLB (Hons) PhD
Post-doctoral Research Associate
Overview
I am a Postdoctoral Researcher, interested in exploring contemporary leadership in extreme contexts. My PhD project considered leadership in Welsh and English NHS surgical teams.
Successive studies of performance failings in UK hospitals identify shortcomings in approaches to leadership. Traditional, hierarchical leadership may stifle raising of concerns about performance, including patient safety. The doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals who work in surgical teams have traditionally operated under such a hierarchical form of leadership.
However, legal restrictions on the working hours of junior doctors, and changes in medical training practices may have altered this form, but there are very few details that have been published about these possible changes in leadership. The main goal of my research is to develop a framework to explore emergent leadership models and to carry out empirical research. This provides an avenue to explain how leadership is experienced in today's surgical teams.
A key aspect of my interest is the use of Atmospheric Work. This is work undertaken more, or less, purposefully to create or maintain a particular kinds of emotional atmosphere in a team or organisation.
Publication
2024
- Rosell, T. 2024. Short essay: The risks of choosing practice theory for ethnographic research: experiences of epistemological and methodological failures. Journal of Organizational Ethnography 13(1), pp. 1-12. (10.1108/JOE-11-2023-0064)
- Rosell, T. and Kitchener, M. 2024. Virtualizing HR in health care: Early insights from a study of surgical teams during COVID-19. In: McDermott, A. et al. eds. Research Handbook on Contemporary Human Resource Management for Health Care. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, pp. 406-419., (10.4337/9781802205718.00037)
2022
- Rosell, T. A. 2022. Atmospheric work: A study of NHS surgical team leadership. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
Articles
- Rosell, T. 2024. Short essay: The risks of choosing practice theory for ethnographic research: experiences of epistemological and methodological failures. Journal of Organizational Ethnography 13(1), pp. 1-12. (10.1108/JOE-11-2023-0064)
Book sections
- Rosell, T. and Kitchener, M. 2024. Virtualizing HR in health care: Early insights from a study of surgical teams during COVID-19. In: McDermott, A. et al. eds. Research Handbook on Contemporary Human Resource Management for Health Care. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, pp. 406-419., (10.4337/9781802205718.00037)
Thesis
- Rosell, T. A. 2022. Atmospheric work: A study of NHS surgical team leadership. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
Teaching
Post Graduate Tutor in the following modules:
Ethics and Morality in Business BS3728 (2019/2020)
People in Organizations BS1529 (2018/19)
Organizational Behaviour BS2530 (2018/19)
Managing People BS2542 (2019/20)
Research themes
Specialisms
- Atmospheric work
- Leadership
- Employment practices