Dr Alison Stowell

Dr Alison Stowell


Senior Lecturer in Business and Management

Location: Lord Ashcroft Building, 3rd floor, Cambridge
Room: LAB 322

UK: 0845 196 2462
International: +44 (0)1245 493131 ext. 2462
Email: alison.stowell@anglia.ac.uk




Alison Stowell is a Senior Lecturer in Business and Management at the Lord Ashcroft International Business School, Cambridge campus. She has a BSc in Business and Information Technology (Portsmouth University), an MSc in Information, Technology, Management and Organisational Change (Lancaster University) and a PhD in Organisation, Work and Technology (Lancaster University).

Prior to moving into academia Alison worked in both public and private sector organisations. She has worked at the Crown Prosecution Service before joining IBM. Alison is an accredited IBM IT Specialist and has held multiple roles during the time spent working there. These roles included Technical Support, Service Management and Service Operations.

Alison's professional roles include module leader for The Natural Environment Stakeholders and Policies (MOD003551) and the Director of Operations for the GoGreen 2012 Pilot. She is currently teaching on the following modules: Undergraduate - Sustainable Management Futures, The Natural Environment, Stakeholders and Policy, International Business in Focus, International Business, and Undergraduate Major Projects. Postgraduate - International Business Environment.

Her principal research interests lie in the impact of discarded technology and how organisational management are responding to these challenges. Alison's previous and current research is exploring how IT recovery organisations adopt the Waste of Electronic and Electrical Equipment legislation.

Research Interests:

  • Waste
  • Governance of environmental issues
  • Management responses to environmental issues
  • Organisational and institutional change
  • Action research

Publications

  • Stowell, A.F. (2013), Environmental risk: The impact of the UK WEEE Regulation - an incentive to change occupational practice?, Meiji Business Review, 60(4), 105-119 (forthcoming).
  • Stowell, F.A and A.F Stowell (2007), 'A Systems Approach to the Study of Environmental Waste', Systemist, 29(2), 119-214.

Conferences

  • Stowell, A.F. (2011) 'The WEEE Institution: Institutional entrepreneur's policy and practice' paper presented to the Quadrangular Conference, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster, UK.
  • Stowell, A.F. (2011) 'Negotiating meaning in an organizational field: Revisiting the category 'computer'' paper presented at the 27th European Group of Organization Studies Colloquium, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden, July.
  • Stowell, F.A and A.F. Stowell (2007) 'The Implementation of Environmental Policy within an Organisation Focusing on the Procurement and Disposal of IT' paper presented to The UK Systems Society Conference, Oxford University, UK.

Forthcoming conferences:

  • Acevedo, B., Rippin, A., Stowell, A., Malevicuis, R. and C. Taylor (2013). 'GoGreen Pilot 2012 ? embedding sustainability into educational practices' abstract accepted at the Higher Education Academy Conference, University of Warwick, UK.
  • Stowell, A.F. (2013) 'Occupational and Environmental Risk: The impact of the UK WEEE Regulation ? an incentive to change occupational practice' paper accepted at the 8th International Critical Management Studies Conference, University of Manchester, UK.

Seminars/workshops

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  • March 2013 - 'Recycling revealed' presented at the Global Sustainability Institute Seminar Series, Anglia Ruskin University.
  • November 2012 - 'Managing e-waste' workshop delivered to the MSc ITMOC Postgraduates, University of Lancaster.
  • September 2012 - 'Managing e-waste' six workshops delivered at the Postgraduate Distance Learning Summer School, University of Leicester.
  • June 2012 - 'Occupational and environmental risks: An investigation into the impact of the UK WEEE Regulation on 'end-of-life' computer practices', presented at the School of Business Administration's Meiji-Lancaster workshop on Work, Employment and Human Resource Management: Observations from Japan and the UK', Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan.
  • May 2011 - 'Waste, consumption and the act of disposal' presented at the Rethinking Materialism Workshop, University of Essex.
  • April 2007 - 'The implementation of environmental policy within an organisation focusing on the procurement and disposal of IT' presented at the Portsmouth Business School Staff Seminar, Portsmouth University.
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