Dr Robin Burrow
- Position: Associate Professor
- Areas of expertise: organizations; extreme contexts; emotions; identity; qualitative research methods – interviews, ethnography, video ethnography and oral history
- Email: R.D.Burrow@leeds.ac.uk
- Website: LinkedIn | Googlescholar
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Robin completed his PhD at the University of Warwick, where he also gained an MSc in Organization Studies. His thesis examined the practiced realities of (medical) work, and was partly completed during a visiting scholarship at the Department of Sociology at the University of California (Los Angeles).
Robin has taught organization studies extensively on a range of different academic programmes. He has also researched and published widely on the lived realities of extreme forms of work, developing specific expertise in relation to the connection between emotions and behaviour.
Currently Robin is working with contract soldiers to understand the lived realities of morally complex forms of labour. He is also working with fast jet pilots, professional opera singers and elite chefs on a study of the political dimensions of perfectionism. His research has been extensively covered in the print media, on radio and television.
Outside of the University, Robin holds/has held visiting research positions at University of Warwick, King’s College London, University of Technology Sydney (Australia) and Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand). He has held visiting teaching positions at University of Birmingham and Audencia School of Management (France). He also consults widely for a range of organizations in the UK and abroad.