Dr Irene Malcolm

Biography

Dr Irene Malcolm graduated as a linguist, having studied in Glasgow, at the University of Kiel (Germany) and at the University of Vienna. Having begun her teaching career at a school in the east end of London, she later worked in the post-compulsory sector, as a lecturer, senior lecturer and programme director in a number of Further Education colleges. She was Project Director of a major knowledge transfer project, and this led to her appointment as Business Development Manager in an international training organisation. She held this post for six years, spending a proportion of her time in France and Germany. From this post she moved into the Higher Education sector.

Her research interests in work and learning developed from her vocationally oriented experience and her employment in business which allowed her to gain insights into a range of workplaces and industry sectors in the UK and overseas.

Before taking up a lectureship in education at Dundee Irene was a researcher and then Lecturer in Lifelong Learning at the Stirling Institute of Education (2004-2009) where she worked on the ESRC project, Learning Lives which examined adults' learning and work across the life course.

Degrees & Qualifications

• BA (Joint Hons) English and German
• Certificate in Education (Leeds)
• Dip. Institute of Linguists (Distinction)
• EdD (Stirling, 2009)

Research Interests

• Learning, work and professionalism in the new economy and digital economy
• Gender and technology
• Globalisation/localisation
• Feminism and gender analysis
• Lifelong learning
• Emotional labour
• Qualitative methodologies, including (virtual) ethnography, life history research and Critical Discourse Analysis.

Research Groups & Collaborations

Irene recently became an Associate of proPEL: Professional Practice, Education and Learning. This is an international, collaborative and inter-disciplinary network for research and knowledge exchange in leading issues of professional education, practice and learning.

She is a member of Women in Lifelong Learning (WILL) which is part of the University Association for Lifelong Learning (UALL). She is collaborating with Professor Susan Jackson who is Pro-Vice-Master, Learning and Teaching and Professor of Lifelong Learning and Gender at Birkbeck College, University of London. They have worked together in the organisation of a WILL conference and a seminar that examined women's gendered pathways through learning. This work has led to the publication of a book which will appear in 2011.

She undertakes writing and research collaboration with Professors Tara Fenwick, John Field and Lydia Plowman from the Stirling Institute of Education.

Research Funding

• Scottish Enterprise
• Carnegie Trust

She is presently collaborating with Professor Lydia Plowman on the submission of a funding proposal to the ESRC.

Teaching

• Professional Programmes
• Doctoral supervision

Administration

• General

Publications

Books
Field, J., Lynch, H. & Malcolm, I., 2012	Field, J., Lynch, H. & Malcolm, I. (2012 forthcoming). Intergenerational Learning: Age, Education and the Production of Knowledge. London: Routledge.
Jackson, S., Malcolm, I. and Thomas, K. (eds.), 2011	Jackson, S., Malcolm, I. & Thomas, K. (eds.) (2011). Gendered choices: learning, work, identities in lifelong learning. Dordrecht: Springer Academic Publishers, Lifelong Learning Series.
Chapters
Malcolm, I., 2011	Malcolm, I. (forthcoming, 2011). “TVET identities, in knowledge work: gender and learning in a globalising industry” in I. Falk, R. Catts & R. Wallace (Eds) Vocational Learning: Innovative Theory and Practice. Dordrecht: Springer Academic Publishers.
Malcolm, I., 2009	Malcolm, I. (2009) “Identity and occupation in the new economy: learning in emotional labour and emotion work”, in Walters, S.(ed) Learning/Work : Turning Work and Lifelong Learning Inside Out . Human Sciences Research Council Publishers (South Africa) (with J. Field)
Malcolm, I., 2007	Malcolm, I. (2007) “Talking about my generation: the role of historical time and generational time over the life course”, in Osborne, M., Houston, M. and Toman, N. (eds) The Pedagogy of Lifelong Learning: Understanding effective teaching and learning in diverse contexts. London, Routledge (with J. Field).
Journal Papers
Malcolm, I., 2012	Malcolm, I. (forthcoming 2012). “It’s for us to change that.” Emotional labour in researching adults’ learning: between feminist criticality and complicity in temporary, gendered employment. Adult Education Quarterly.
Conference Presentations
Malcolm, I., 2011	Malcolm, I. (2011). Knowledge Migration in the Digital Economy: Distribution and Containment, as part of symposium I. Malcolm, H. Colley, T. Fenwick & B. Slade (2011) Migrations in Professional Knowledge. Presented at Joint “Adult Education Research Conference” & “Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education” held at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada, 10th – 12th June, 2011.
Malcolm, I., 2010	Malcolm, I. (2010 submitted) “Work and learning in the localisation industry”, extended abstract submitted to All hands digital futures conference, Nottingham, 11th & 12th Oct 2010, (with L. Plowman).
Malcolm, I., 2009	Malcolm, I. (2009) “At the core and on the periphery: identity work and emotional labour among boundaryless workers in the localisation industry.” Paper presented as part of symposium 5 at Researching Work and Learning 6, 27th June – 1st July, Roskilde, Denmark.
Malcolm, I., 2007	Malcolm, I. (2007) “Working in transitional spaces: outsourced home-workers in the localisation / globalisation industry”. Paper presented at CRLL (Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning), “The times they are a-changing”, Stirling , 22 – 24th June.
Malcolm, I., 2006	Malcolm, I. (2006) “Life history research as emotional labour: power, class and gender in transitional spaces.” Conference paper given at ESREA Life History and Biography Network Conference, Volos, Greece, 2 – 5th March.
Malcolm, I., 2006	Malcolm, I. (2006) “Working identities, agency and social class”. Conference paper presented at Conference, “Inter-Cultural Perspectives on Research into Adult Learning: A Global Dialogue”, SCUTREA, Leeds, 4 – 6th July (with J. Field).
Malcolm, I., 2005	Malcolm, I. (2005) “Talking About My Generation: learning, identity and agency - the role of historical time and generational time over the life course”, pp. 168-74 in J. Caldwell et al (eds.), What a Difference a Pedagogy Makes: Researching lifelong learning and teaching, Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning, Stirling, 2005 (with J. Field).
Malcolm, I., 2005	Malcolm, I. (2005) “Researching learning/working lives: issues of identity, agency and changing experiences of work” , pp. 235-42 in P. Coare, P. Armstrong, M. Boice and L. Morrice (eds) Diversity and Difference in Lifelong Learning, SCUTREA, Brighton, 2005 (with J. Field).
Malcolm, I., 2005	Malcolm, I. (2005) "Researching learning, identity and agency across the life course: the "Learning Lives" project", CRLL Conference, "What a Difference a Pedagogy Makes: researching lifelong learning and teaching", Stirling, June (with Biesta, Field and MacLeod).
Malcolm, I., 2005	Malcolm, I. (2005) “Researching learning/working lives: issues of identity, agency and changing experiences of work”, TLRP Annual Conference, Warwick, November (with J. Field).
Malcolm, I., 2004	Malcolm, I. (2004) “Ethical engagement: collecting the learning biographies of adults”, Paper presented at RCBN (Research Capacity Building Network) Conference, University of Cardiff, November, (with N. Adair).