Heather Midgley
- Email: H.Midgley@leeds.ac.uk
- Thesis title: Relational Resilience: How Organisations Mobilise Inter-Organisational Relationships During Crises.
- Supervisors: Dr Josh Morton, Associate Prof. John Palfreyman
Profile
Post graduate researcher at Leeds University Business School (LUBS), funded by the Department of Management and Organisations. Beforehand, I have obtained a Distinction in Msc Creative and Cultural Industried from the University of Sheffield Management School (SUMS).
Achievements: Best Paper for Management and Organisation at the LUBS Annual Conference 2026
Research interests
My research examines how organisations mobilise inter-organisational relationships during crises to build resilience. I focus on understanding resilience as a distributed accomplishment enacted through relational practices of strategising across organisational boundaries.
By examining how organisations draw on external partnerships to maintain core functions while adapting to changing conditions, my rseearch advances a more processual understanding of resilience as pehnomena.
My general interests include:
- Organisational Resilience
- Strategy-as-Practice
- Relational Processes
- Crisis Management
- Resource Mobilisation
Qualifications
- BA Human Geography, Sheffield Hallam University
- MSc Creative and Cultural Industries Management, University of Sheffield Management School