Professor of Organisational Analysis at Strathclyde University Business School, Glasgow. Her research interests include emotion in organisations, public sector management,  nursing and teaching, gender and the professions, dignity in and at work, the human in human resource management. She is currently working on comparative research on dignity at work in Europe, with a focus on Greece and the UK and also gender and knowledge transfer. Research is published widely in leading international sociology and management journals such as Work, Employment and Society; Sociology; Journal of Management Studies; Gender, Work and Organisation, Sociologia Del Trabajo, Economia & Management and practitioner periodicals such as People Management and Personnel Today. A sole authored book ‘Emotion Management in the Workplace’ was published by Palgrave in 2005 followed by two edited collections in 2007: ‘Searching for the Human in Human Resource Management’ (with Maeve Houlihan) (Palgrave) and ‘Dimensions of Dignity at Work’ (Elsevier). A new edited collection ‘Work Matters’ (with Maeve Houlihan) will be published by Palgrave April 2009. In her previous life, Sharon worked as a senior administrator in the public and private sectors.