Christopher Carter

Professor Chris Carter joined the Business School in 2013 as the chair of Strategy & Organization. Previously he held full professorships at the University of St Andrews (2006-11) and Newcastle University (2011-13). He has a PhD in Management & Organization Studies from Aston Business School and is from Cornwall / Kernow.

Chris works closely with organisations such as STV (2014-17), the John Smith Trust, the Scottish Labour Party, and a small number of senior leaders in politics and business.

He has extensive experience in research management, beginning with jointly leading (with Professor John Wilson) St Andrews School of Management's successful RAE submission in 2008. More recently, Chris led the University of Edinburgh Business School's successful REF submission in 2021, where the School finished 17th in the UK and was ranked 4th for its research environment.

He has led several successful executive education projects and has particular expertise in writing impact case studies; he co-authored four impact case studies for the last REF (with his friends: Professor Ken Amaeshi, Professor John Amis, Professor Susan Murphy, and Professor Paolo Quattrone).

Research Interests

Chris is a Historical Organization Studies and Interdisciplinary Accounting community member. His research formed part of the Universities of Edinburgh, Durham, King's, Newcastle, Sheffield and Strathclyde's recent REF submissions.

He currently works in the following research teams:

1. The Labour Party Project: Professor Andrew Brown (Bath University) and Chris Carter. Concepts used: Identity Work, Social Types and Organisational Mnemonics.

2. STV Project: Chris Carter, Dr John Millar (Durham University), and Professor Frank Mueller (Durham University). Concepts used: Performance Studies (Symbolic and Practical), Mediators, Paradox.

3. Bourdieu & Codebase Project: Dr Grant Murray (Cumbria University), and Professor Crawford Spence (King's College London). Concepts used: Cultural Capital, Habitus, Class and power.

4. Lord Reith & the BBC Project: Chris Carter, Dr Michael Heller (Brunel University), Professor Alan McKinlay (Newcastle University), and Professor Michael Rowlinson (Exeter University). Concepts used: Rhetorical History and Collective Memory.

He is fortunate to supervise gifted Doctoral scholars producing creative work. Dr John Millar completed his PhD thesis on 'Edinburgh Fund Managers' in 2020 and now serves as Assistant Professor at Durham University. Dr Grant Murray successfully defended his thesis on 'Entrepreneurs in Codebase' in December 2021 and is currently a Research Fellow at the University of Cumbria. In September Grant takes up an Assistant Professorship at Durham University.