My Biography

Aisling is a Lecturer in Management in the Dept. of Management and Organisation. She is a senor researcher in the EC Horizon 2020 supported Hecat- Disruptive Technologies Supporting Labour Market Decision Making.

 

Aisling completed her PhD in 2016 with the AIB CFBR. Her research explored the working lives of bankers and the cultural transformation in banking from the 1960s and was conducted under the supervision of Dr. Seán Byrne and Dr. Ray Griffin. Her thesis can be found on the WIT Library repository.

 

Following her PhD Aisling completed her postdoctoral research on the project ‘Understanding Unemployment in the Era of Big Data’ which was funded by the Irish Research Council New Horizons Interdisciplinary Research Fund. This research is exploring the organisation of unemployment through the PEX (probability of exit) algorithm and is being led by Dr Ray Griffin and Dr Aoife Hennessy (Dept. Mathematics & Computing) 

Aisling holds an MSc in Business, a BA(hons) majoring in Sociology and Level 7&6 qualifications in Quality Management, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering.

Research

My current research is focused on unemployment and the labour market and how big data and algorithms organise opportunities for jobseekers. We are expanding this research to an international level and are interested in opportunities to collaborate with researchers across this topic. We are preparing proposals for the final 2018-2020 work packages in Horizon 2020 with a particular focus on SC6- Europe in a changing world.

I am currently exploring relations of care in provision of state welfare and across organisations.

My broad research interests include the organisation of labour and work, especially the formation of identity through work and careers. I also have an interest in organisations and how their culture and form is linked to the prevailing norms and transformations of society and the economy.

Research Projects:

HECAT: Disruptive Technology Supporting Labour Market Decision Making

Project Duration: 3 Years 6 months (2020-2023)

Funding: EC Horizon 2020 (€3.4million)

Project Co-Ordinator: SETU, School of Business

Primary Outputs: www.Hecat.eu

 

Understanding Unemployment in the Era of Big Data: Exploring how data-driven theory and algorithmic knowledge can support better policy and personal decision making

Project Duration: 30 months (2016-2019)

Funding: Irish Research Council New Horizons Interdisciplinary Programme (€192,515)

Primary Outputs: 2017 Work and Welfare in the 4^th Industrial Revolution Symposium; 2018 Horizon 2020 proposal submission (€3.6million) as consortium lead (resubmitted in 2019); 2019 Presentation to the Oireachtas Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection; Book Chapter; Conference Papers

 

PhD RESEARCH

An Alternative Banking Inquiry: A Grand Narrative of Organisation Culture and Change1960 to 2000.

Supervised by Dr Ray Griffin (WIT); Dr Seán Byrne (WIT)

Examined by: Prof Sally Sambrook, Bangor University, Wales & Prof Felicity Kelleher

Synopsis: An inductive study exploring the transformation of culture in banking organisations by drawing on the lived experiences of bank workers.

Available at: http://repository.wit.ie/3192/

Teaching

Teaching includes:

Organisational Behaviour 

Organisational Psychology

Lean Communications - Diploma in Lean Fundamentals

Operations Management

Management 

Publications

Publications:

Book:

Tuite, A. (2019). The Lost Art of Banking: A Genealogical Analysis of the Banking Crisis and Bank Rehabilitation. (Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions). Palgrave Macmillan.

 

Book Chapter:

Boland, T., Griffin, R., Tuite, A. & Hennessy, A., 2020, Electric Dreams of Welfare in the 4th Industrial Revolution: An Actor Network Investigation and Genealogy of an Algorithm. In: V. Bobkov/P. Herrmann (Eds.). Digitisation and Precarisation – Redefining Work and Redefining Society. Springer.

Boland, T., Shearer, R. & Tuite, A., 2015. Media: Nothing to be said. In T. Boland and R. Griffin (eds.), 2015. In: Boland, T & Griffin R (eds); The Sociology of Unemployment. Manchester: Manchester University Press.  

 

Conference Publication :

Byrne, D., Tuite, A. & Organ, J., 2022. A Study of the Organisational Behaviour of Software Test Engineers, Contributing to the Digital Transformation of Banks in the Irish Financial Sector. In: IFAC-PapersOnLine. 55, 39, p. 259-264 6 p.

 

Article/Essay/Opinion:

Tuite, A., 2022. Rethinking care through social welfare administration. In Boland, T & Griffin, R. (eds). The Sociological Observer 1(2): Rethinking Welfare in the New Normal. The Sociological Association of Ireland.

Tuite, A. 2019. "Stop Pretending Banks are Ordinary Businesses". The Irish Times, 08 Jun 2019

Tuite, A., 2014. Reflections on the management consultant as the liminal outsider.International Political Anthropology, 7(1), pp. 95-107.  

 

 

Awards

2014. Tuite, A., Griffin, R. and Byrne, S. Foolish wisdom in the bankers’ court. Best Developmental Paper: Organizational Transformation, Change and Development. British Academy of Management Annual Conference, Belfast.  

 

Selected Conference Papers

Tuite A., Griffin, R. Towards a relational theory of organisational care: the gentle crafting and embedding of care in employment relations. Human Relations 75th Anniversary Conference. Bayes Business School, London, 21st -22nd April 2023

Tuite, A., Griffin, R. On the Political Economy of Digitality in Public Employment Services. British Sociology Association Annual Conference, 2021

Tuite, A. A Multi-perspective investigation of transformations of care in the workplace. Irish Academy of Management Annual Conference, 2021

Hawley, A. B., Tuite, A., Griffin, R. The family, welfare and the State: when disorganised private sexual relations become organised in public life. European Group for Organisation Studies (EGOS) Annual Conference, Sub-theme 50, 2021

Seminar Paper: Tuite, A. An Alternative Banking Inquiry: 50 years of stories from professional and professionalised bankers. 23^rd Organisation Storytelling Seminar, University of Roehampton, London, 2018

Conference Paper: Boland, T., Griffin, R., Tuite, A. Electric Dreams of Welfare in the 4^th Industrial Revolution. Paper presented at the 12^th International Ethnography Symposium, University of Manchester, 2017

Conference Paper: Tuite, A., Griffin, R. & Byrne, S. An Alternative Banking Inquiry: Stories from workers in an industry in crisis. British Sociological Association: Work, Employment and Society (WES) Annual Conference, University of Leeds, 2016

Tuite, A., Griffin, R. & Byrne, S. Towards an understanding of change and organisational culture in a major Irish bank. Paper presented at Irish Accounting and Finance Association (IAFA) Annual Conference, Queens University Belfast, 29th – 30th May 2014.

 

Tuite, A., Griffin, R. & Byrne, S. On the changing symbolic order of play in bankers’ lives. Paper presented at Standing Conference on Organisational Symbolism (SCOS) Annual Conference, Utrecht University, 7th – 10th July 2014.

 

Tuite, A., Griffin, R. & Byrne, S. From Gemeinschaft to Gesellschaft: The story of modernisation, change and careers in banking. Paper presented at Irish Academy of Management (IAM) Annual Conference, University of Limerick, 3rd – 5th September 2014.

 

Tuite, A., Griffin, R. & Byrne, S. 2014. Foolish wisdom in the bankers’ court. Paper presented at British Academy of Management (BAM) Annual Conference, University of Ulster, Belfast, 9th – 11th September 2014.

 

Tuite, A., Griffin, R. & Byrne, S. An alternative banking inquiry: Stories from workers in an industry in crisis. Forthcoming paper for British Sociological Association: Work, Employment and Society (WES) Annual Conference, University of Leeds, 6th – 8th September 2016.