Advocating a phenomenon-based, engaged scholarship philosophy, Catriona’s research aims to extend emerging policy, practice and scholarship debates on significant societal and organisational mega-trends and contemporary developments. Her current interests sit at the intersection of systemic (socio-technical, socio-ecological and living) change, desirable futures, temporality and responsibility. Catriona is particularly interested in phenomenon-driven scholarship that seeks to integrate interdisciplinary insights, concepts, approaches and methods from across science and technology studies, sociology, anthropology, organisation theory, philosophy, sustainability science, political science and other disciplines. Catriona also has significant expertise working with leaders in the enactment of transformative and sustainable change and the development of responsible praxis.

Conceptually, her work is governed by Aristotelian notions of practical wisdom, pragmatist sociological and critical management perspectives, together with processual and practice-based approaches to knowledge, collaborative action and decision making. Awarded the President’s Medal in 2024, her research has been published in a variety of top tier journals, including Human Relations, Human Resource Management and the International Journal of Project Management. She sits on the Editorial Boards of European Management Review, The International Journal of Project Management, and Projects, Leadership & Society.

Prior to joining academia, Catriona gained over a decade of significant senior management experience across a variety of sectors with her diverse achievements including the leadership of extensive organisational change, large scale operational efficiency and complex regulatory and IT development programmes. Her academic leadership and curriculum development excellence are currently engaged as Founding Chair of the highly innovative Kemmy Business School Executive DBA (Doctor of Business Administration) programme focusing on leadership, sustainability and systemic transformation.

Indicative Topics for Rosetta Supervision:

· Digital timescapes across diverse contexts from energy and utilities to health, education, the environment and policy

· Temporal complexity and temporal paradoxes in navigating both digitally mediated temporalities and emerging climate change temporalities

· Inter-temporal knowledge integration and temporal boundary objects

· Digital technologies and interventions in surface and deep temporal structures

· Shaping/making desirable digital futures

· The politics and the power of digital timescapes in shaping the visible and invisible temporal (re)constitution of contemporary organisation and society

· The darker side of digital technologies and temporality

· Research at the intersection of responsible leadership, ethics and temporality