Kae Reynolds

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

I am looking to supervise academically excellent PhD candidates from all areas of the world for the following or closely related topics: Innovative (arts-based and reflexive) leadership development and leader learning Dialogue, debate, and discourse in leadership development Content analysis of communication and cultural artefacts in leadership or followership Individual, relational, and socially embedded aspects of moral reasoning in leadership and followership Crisis leadership, crisis leadership communication Care ethics, Nussbaum's ethics, moral capitalism (A. Smith) in leadership and/or HRD (Womens’) motivation to lead, Women’s leadership, the agency myth Motivation to serve (servant leadership), Moral reasoning orientation in leadership and followership, Dual system processing in ethics Narcissism, toxic leadership, bullying, gossip, and egoism and their impact on leadership processes/outcomes Ethical aspects of power, empowerment vs. gaslighting and manipulation Innovative (arts-based and reflexive) leadership development and leader learning: leadership ethics, followership ethics Critical Leadership / Management Studies The reflexive construction of leader ethical identity through the medium of poetry, Communicative and socially embedded construction of gendered leader identity (gendered discourse analysis of business leaders' communication) Arts-based inquiry of relational and socially embedded aspects of ethical and unethical leadership Content analysis of women and men's constructions of leadership and moral reasoning in epideictic rhetoric. Self-leadership in the leadership relationship in non-profit organisations Women’s leadership in non-profit organisations Women’s motivation to lead