Staff Profile

I joined Newcastle University Business School in September 2018. My research is focused on use of theatre-based interventions and their outcomes, specifically those concerned with identity construction of organisation members in contemporary organisations. I am also interested in exploring gender and gendered identities in the context of work and organisation, in particular, through the lens of feminist studies. 

I have been involved in teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in Organisation Studies, Organisational Behaviour and Cross Cultural Management in different institutions such as University of Wollongong and University of New South Wales in Australia, and Northumbria University since moving to the UK.

Education

• PhD in Management, Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
• M.Sc. in Management and Economics of Innovation, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
• B.Sc. in Industrial & Systems Engineering, Sharif University of Technology (SUT), Tehran, Iran

Professional Membership

• Fellowship of The Higher Education Academy

I am interested in research related to:

• Self and Identity: Identity regulation and identity work in and around organisations
• Gender, work and organisations: Gendered work in the neoliberal era, emergence of neoliberal feminism and postfeminism and their implications for working women’s self construction
• Dramaturgy: dramaturgical framing of social life in organisational settings, frame analysis, artistic interventions in organisations

I would be interested in supervising PhD students with similar research interests. 

BUS3033- Critical Organisation Studies

BUS2019- Understanding Work and Organisations

BUS2021- Work and Organisation 

NBS8326- Managing Organisations and People

• Article

  • Zabrodska K, Ellwood C, Zaeemdar S, Mudrak J. Workplace Bullying as Sensemaking: An Analysis of Target and Actor Perspectives on Initial Hostile Interactions. Culture and Organization 2016, 22(2), 136-157.

• Book Chapter

  • Zaeemdar S. Coaching as a Liminal Space: Exploring Use of Theatre in Management Training and Development. In: Black, K; Warhurst, R; Corlett, S, ed. Identity as a Foundation for Human Resource Development. New York: Routledge, 2017, pp.179-192.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

  • Zaeemdar S. Exploring Women's Work Life Narratives in Search of Authentic Selves. In: Best Paper at the 78th Academy of Management Annual Meeting. 2018, Chicago. In Preparation.
  • Zaeemdar S. Dramatic Persuasion in Theater-based Interventions . In: 9th International Art of Management & Organization Conference. 2018, Brighton, UK: Art of Management & Organization.
  • Zaeemdar S. The Pursuit of a Good Life: Work Life Narratives of Authenticity. In: The 33rd European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS) Colloquium. 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark: European Group for Organizational Studies.
  • Forbes-Simpson K, Zaeemdar S, Black K, Warhurst R. Experiments with Visual Methods in Understanding Entrepreneurship Education. In: 12th Annual International Ethnography Symposium: Politics and Ethnography in an Age of Uncertainty. 2017, Manchester, UK.
  • Zaeemdar S. Exploring Imaginaries of Authenticity: Seeking Authentic Selves in Contemporary Organisational Life. In: British Academy of Management. 2016, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.