Dr Deborah Callaghan joined Edge Hill University in 2022 as a senior lecturer and programme leader of undergraduate BSc (Hons) programmes in Business & Management, Business & Management plus pathways in marketing, accounting and finance and economics and International Business. She previously worked as a senior lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University, the University of Liverpool and also held previous positions in Edge Hill Business School including programme leader for the part-time Business & Management programme and separately as year head of level 4, 5 and 6.  Deborah completed her PhD in 2019 at the University of Liverpool. She has a particular interest in workplace bullying and harrassment. Her PhD examined the impact of the enactment of anti-bullying interventions in a UK police force. Her research interests include the mismatch between policy and practice and espoused and enacted practice in workplace contexts. Her recent work has examined the impact of organisational spin on employee aspiration;  knowledge transfer in multinational enterprises, corporate citizenship in family-owned businesses, and entrepreneurial marketing responses in biased consumer markets. The central focus of her research interest is concerned with policy and practice gaps and how they impact on the employer/employee relationship at work.

Recent Publications

Ahmed, F., Callaghan, D. & Arslan, A. (2023) A Multilevel Conceptual Framework on green practices: Transforming policies into actionable leadership and employee behavior, Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, Available online.

Callaghan, D. & Collins, H. (2023) “If only these conversations had happened in induction.” Influencing employee aspiration with action learning-led inductions in the Big Four, Employee Relations, DOI 10.1108/ER-03-2023-0120.

Gölgeci, I., Arslan, A., Kentosova, V., Callaghan, D. & Pereira, V. (2023) The Role of Marketing Agility and Risk Propensity in Survival of Eastern European Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Denmark, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research, 10.1108/IJEBR-03-2022-0214.

Arslan, A., Hurmelinna-Laukkanen, P., Haapanen, L. & Callaghan, D. (2022), Antecedents and Influences of Corporate Citizenship: Case study of a Finnish family firm, In, C. Seaman et al., (Eds) Corporate Citizenship and Family Business, Elgar Publishing

Leposky, T.,Arslan, A., Gölgeci, I. & Callaghan, D. (2022) Absorptive Capacity, Value Creation and New Service Development in Multinational Enterprises: The Role of Knowledge Flows Between Customers, Subsidiaries and Headquarters, In, Z.Khan et al., (Eds) Research Handbook of Knowledge Transfer and International Business, Elgar Publishing.

Recent Conference Presentations

2022 UFHRD Sheffield University June – Paper presentation - Callaghan, D. & Collins, H.  The use of action learning to avoid contagious spin in recruitment and induction in the Big Four accountancy firms.

Research Interests

Workplace bullying and harrassment 

Injustice at work

Labour force challenges

Corporate Social Responsibility

Human Resource Management 

Learning & Development

Teaching

I teach across a broad range of business related subject areas from level 4 to level 7, with a specialism in HRM.

I gained broader teaching experience in teaching:- Level 4 Organisational Behaviour, level 4 Economics, and level 4 Information Management, Level 5 Global Corporate Social Responsibility, level 5 Research Methods, Level 6 International Business, level 6 Business Strategy, level 6 Strategic HRM, level 6 Dissertation, Level 7 Competitive HRM, level 7 Dissertation

Programme Leadership (current) 

Programme leader for BSc (Hons) Business & Management

Programme leader for BSc (Hons) Business & Management with Marketing

Programme leader for BSc (Hons) Business & Management with Accounting and Finance

Programme leader for BSc (Hons) Business & Economics

Programme leader for BSc (Hons) International Business 

Module Leadership (current)

Module leader BUS 2018 Managing the Human Resource

Module leader BUS 2026 Global Coroprate Social Responsibility

Module leader BUS 3036 Strategic Human Resource Management   

PGR Supervision

Joan Saunders-Reece: Who makes the rules? An exploratory study of organisational culture and its impact on command and control protocols in London Underground during a crisis.

Memberships

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (from 2012). 

Member of the International Association of Workplace Bullying and Harassment (from 2010)

Member of the Chartered Management Institute (from 2016)

Member of the Public Administration Committee (from 2015 - 2020).

Graduate of the Aurora programme (from 2017).