Sarah Hurlow

Sarah has worked closely with a range of private and public sector organisations to design and facilitate leadership development programmes, and was Director of the Executive MBA at Cardiff Business School for three years.

She has a particular interest in strategies for supporting the reflexive and collaborative practice of leaders, including the theory and practice of coaching and storytelling. Current research projects include an evaluation of a ‘leader as coach’ initiative in the workplace, and the role of coaching as part of the Executive MBA educational expericne.

Sarah is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Association.

Sarah has held a number of management roles including Deputy Head of the Management, Organisation & Employment (MEO) section. She is a member of the Business School’s Shadow Management Board and the Steering Group for Academic Engagement that is part of the University’s Education Portfolio for Change. She was an elected member of the Council of the British Academy of Management with a specific role in the development of the ‘Management Knowledge & Education’ initiative. Sarah has undertaken a number of external examiner responsibilities, including most recently at the University of West of England.

2009

• Hurlow, S. 2009. An exploration of the discursive construction of emotionally intelligent leadership. Presented at: Professional Development Workshop: Developing Proposals Together – Mentoring To Advance Leadership Research, Academy of Management Conference, Chicago, USA, 7-12 August 2009. pp. 430-444.

2008

• Hurlow, S. 2008. Making leadership visible. Presented at: First Workshop on Imagining Business, Oxford, UK, 26-27 July 2008.
• Hurlow, S. 2008. Language of leadership. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.

2006

• Hurlow, S. 2006. Learning as deconstructive practice. Presented at: Employment Research Unit Conference (ERU), Cardiff, UK, 5-6 September 2006.

2005

• Hurlow, S. 2005. Leadership in local government. Presented at: Employment Research Unit (ERU) Conference, Cardiff, UK, 6-7 September 2005.
• Hurlow, S. 2005. Visible leadership. Presented at: Studying Leadership: Future Agendas. The Fourth International Annual Conference on Leadership Research, Lancaster, UK, 12-13 December 2005.

2004

• Hurlow, S. 2004. Playing at/with leadership. Presented at: Studying Leadership 3rd International Conference: Leadership Refrains, Encounters, Conversations and Enchantments, Exeter, UK., 15-16 December 2004.

2003

• Hurlow, S. 2003. The destabilising movement: poststructuralism and critical management education. Presented at: 3rd International Conference on Critical Management Studies., Lancaster, UK, 7-9 July 2003.

Research interests

• The relationship between theories of learning and coaching practice
• Coaching as a critical reflexive practice
• The politics of coaching: how coaching is legitimised rhetorically; coaching as a disciplinary practice; coaching as a form of resistance
• Coaching as identity work

PhD supervision research interests

• Leadership development
• Coaching
• Poststructuralism