Professor Kathleen Riach

Professor in Organisational Studies (Management)

telephone: 0141 330 5364
email: Kathleen.Riach@glasgow.ac.uk

Adam Smith Business School, Adam Smith Building, 2 Discovery Place, G11 6EY

Biography

Kathleen Riach is Professor of Organisation Studies at University of Glasgow Adam Smith Business School and visiting professor at the Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation in Australia.

For the past 20 years, her research explores the lived experience of working across the life course with a particular focus on ageing as an organising and organised phenomenon and how women navigate different forms of inequality during their careers.

Kat’s work of menopause at work is globally recognised. In 2019, she launched MIPO, one of the world’s first online free resources to help manager support menopause in thee workplace, that has since been accessed over 1500 in 50 countries. She has since has worked with a variety of public, private and national governments to introduce their menopause policies, including leading on research that resulted in national guidelines for NHS Scotland employees. In 2024, Kat became chair for the forthcoming ISO standard on Menopause, Menstruation and Menstrual Health in the Workplace, having previously been on the advisory board for the BSI guidelines on the same title.

Her pioneering work on age-based gendered inequality led to becoming a UK delegate for the G20 engagement group for gender equality, the W20. In 2024, she was named AACSB’s influential leader of the year and was a finalist of the Herald Higher Education Awards, as well as being awarded SIE’s Imaginative Educator of the year award in 2020.

Research interests

Professor Riach is a member of the School's Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour research cluster.

Areas of expertise:

Age discrimination and older worker identity
Ageing, menopause and menstrual health at work
Equality, Health and Wellbeing across the working life course
Women’s leadership

Publications

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Number of items: 58.

2025

Bisht, Riya and Riach, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398 (2025) Going loca: depression at work as a public feeling in Peru. Gender, Work and Organization, 32(2), pp. 634-652. (doi: 10.1111/gwao.13170)

2024

Alamgir, Fahreen and Riach, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398 (2024) Towards recognition and redistribution: solidaric demands and subaltern subjectivities in Bangladeshi jute mills. Organization Studies, (doi: 10.1177/01708406241311407) (Early Online Publication)

Illias, Mahnoz ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3421-363X, Riach, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398 and Demou, Evangelia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8616-525X (2024) Understanding the interplay between organisational injustice and the health and wellbeing of female police officers: a meta-ethnography. BMC Public Health, 24(1), 2659. (doi: 10.1186/s12889-024-20152-1) (PMID:39342226)

Cutcher, Leanne, Lloyd, Moya, Riach, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398 and Tyler, Melissa (2024) Troubling/transforming working lives: editorial introduction. Gender, Work and Organization, 31(4), pp. 1336-1341. (doi: 10.1111/gwao.13132)

Tyler, M. et al. (2024) Strangers in conversation: Judith Butler with gender, work and organization. Gender, Work and Organization, 31(4), pp. 1444-1462. (doi: 10.1111/gwao.13133)

Atal, Maha Rafi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4136-4420, Riach, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398, Smith, Craig ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6707-5977 and McMaster, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7114-9871 (2024) Adam Smith: His continuing relevance for contemporary management thought. European Management Journal, 42(1), pp. 4-10. (doi: 10.1016/j.emj.2024.01.005)

Riach, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398 and Tyler, Melissa (2024) “Getting a grip”? Phenomenological insights into handling work place in London’s Soho. Human Relations, 77(2), pp. 172-199. (doi: 10.1177/00187267221135016)

2023

Mousa, Mariam, Garth, Belinda, Boyle, Jacqueline A., Riach, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398 and Teede, Helena J. (2023) Experiences of organizational practices that advance women in health care leadership. JAMA Network Open, 6(3), e233532. (doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.3532) (PMID:36939704) (PMCID:PMC10028487)

Riach, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398 (2023) Feminist poststructural analysis. In: Katila, Saija, Meriläinen, Susan and Bell, Emma (eds.) Handbook of Feminist Research Methodologies in Management and Organization Studies. Series: Research handbooks in business and management series. Edward Elgar Publishing: Northampton UK, pp. 157-173. ISBN 9781800377035

2022

Cutcher, Leanne, Riach, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398 and Tyler, Melissa (2022) Splintering Organizational Subjectivities: older workers and the dynamics of recognition, vulnerability and resistance. Organization Studies, 43(6), pp. 973-992. (doi: 10.1177/01708406211010982)

2021

Riach, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398 and Jack, Gavin (2021) Women’s health in/and work: menopause as an intersectional experience. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(20), 10793. (doi: 10.3390/ijerph182010793) (PMID:34682537) (PMCID:PMC8536086)

Jack, Gavin, Riach, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398, Hickey, Martha, Griffiths, Amanda, Hardy, Claire and Hunter, Myra (2021) Menopause in the workplace: building evidence, changing workplaces, supporting women. Maturitas, 151, pp. 63-64. (doi: 10.1016/j.maturitas.2021.07.001) (PMID:34294482)

Mousa, Mariam, Boyle, Jacqueline, Skouteris, Helen, Mullins, Alexandra K., Currie, Graeme, Riach, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398 and Teede, Helena J. (2021) Advancing women in healthcare leadership: a systematic review and meta-synthesis of multi-sector evidence on organisational interventions. EClinicalMedicine, 39, 101084. (doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.101084)

Rees, M. et al. (2021) Global consensus recommendations on menopause in the workplace: A European Menopause and Andropause Society (EMAS) position statement. Maturitas, 151, pp. 55-62. (doi: 10.1016/j.maturitas.2021.06.006) (PMID:34274202)

Hales, Sophie, Riach, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398 and Tyler, Melissa (2021) Close Encounters: Intimate service interactions in lap dancing work as a nexus of ‘self-others-things’. Organization Studies, 42(4), pp. 555-574. (doi: 10.1177/0170840619830127)

Mullen, H., Alsharif, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1598-3233, Searle, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6052-7627 and Riach, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398 (2021) Facilitating Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity in the Fintech Sector - Where can Industry and Academia Make a Difference? Fintech Round Table, Glasgow, UK, 20 January 2021.

2020

Cutcher, Leanne, Hardy, Cynthia, Riach, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398 and Thomas, Robyn (2020) Reflections on reflexive theorizing: the need for a little more conversation. Organization Theory, 1(3), pp. 1-28. (doi: 10.1177/2631787720944183)

Kelly, Simon and Riach, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398 (2020) Halloween, organization, and the ethics of uncanny celebration. Journal of Business Ethics, 161(1), pp. 103-114. (doi: 10.1007/s10551-018-3945-8)

2019

Hales, Sophie, Riach, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398 and Tyler, Melissa (2019) Putting sexualized labour in the picture: Encoding ‘reasonable entitlement’ in the lap dancing industry. Organization, 26(6), pp. 783-801. (doi: 10.1177/1350508418812560)

Simpson, Dayna, Power, Damien, Riach, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398 and Tsarenko, Yelena (2019) Consumer motivation for product disposal and its role in acquiring products for reuse. Journal of Operations Management, 65(7), pp. 612-635. (doi: 10.1002/joom.1049)

Davies, Olivia and Riach, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398 (2019) From manstream measuring to multispecies sustainability? A gendered reading of bee‐ing sustainable. Gender, Work and Organization, 26(3), pp. 246-266. (doi: 10.1111/gwao.12245)

Jack, Gavin, Riach, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398 and Bariola, Emily (2019) Temporality and gendered agency: Menopausal subjectivities in women’s work. Human Relations, 72(1), pp. 122-143. (doi: 10.1177/0018726718767739)

Riach, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398 and Brewis, Jo (2019) The organizational gendering of adulting: negotiating age and gender in the workplace. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Equality and Diversity, 5(1),

2018

Canniford, Robin, Riach, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398 and Hill, Tim (2018) Nosenography: how smell constitutes meaning, identity and temporal experience in spatial assemblages. Marketing Theory, 18(2), pp. 234-248. (doi: 10.1177/1470593117732462)

Yates, Sarah, Riach, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398 and Johansson, Marjana ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-0603 (2018) Stress at work, gendered dys-appearance and the broken body in policing. Gender, Work and Organization, 25(1), pp. 91-105. (doi: 10.1111/gwao.12179)

Davies, Olivia and Riach, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398 (2018) Sociomateriality and qualitative research: method, matter and meaning. In: Cassell, Catherine, Cunliffe, Ann L. and Grandy, Gina (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Business and Management Research Methods: Methods and Challenges. SAGE: London, pp. 133-149. ISBN 9781526429278 (doi: 10.4135/9781526430236.n9)

2017

Warren, Samantha and Riach, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398 (2017) Olfactory control, aroma power and organizational smellscapes. In: Henshaw, Victoria, McLean, Kate, Medway, Dominic, Perkins, Chris and Warnaby, Gary (eds.) Designing with Smell: Practices, Techniques and Challenges. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781315666273 (doi: 10.4324/9781315666273)

Cutcher, Leanne and Riach, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398 (2017) Age in the city: embodied ageing in financial services. In: Aaltio, I., Mills, A. and Mills, J. (eds.) Ageing, Organisations and Management. Springer, pp. 161-182. ISBN 9783319588124 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-58813-1_8)

Bariola, Emily, Jack, Gavin, Pitts, Marian, Riach, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398 and Sarrel, Philip (2017) Employment conditions and work-related stressors are associated with menopausal symptom reporting among perimenopausal and postmenopausal women. Menopause, 24(3), pp. 247-251. (doi: 10.1097/GME.0000000000000751) (PMID:27749735)

Hales, Sophie and Riach, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398 (2017) From age diversity to embedded ageing: exploring and addressing aged assumptions in organisational practices. In: Parry, Emma and McCarthy, Jean (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Age Diversity and Work. Palgrave Macmillan: London, pp. 111-131. ISBN 9781137467799 (doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-46781-2_6)

Hickey, Martha, Riach, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398, Kachouie, Reza and Jack, Gavin (2017) No sweat: managing menopausal symptoms at work. Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology, 38(3), pp. 202-209. (doi: 10.1080/0167482X.2017.1327520) (PMID:28532219)

Riach, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398, McDonald, Paula and Grant-Smith, Deanna (2017) Financial timescapes: the temporal shaping of young people’s financial lives. Sociology, 51(4), pp. 800-815. (doi: 10.1177/0038038516668125)

2016

Riach, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398, Rumens, Nick and Tyler, Melissa (2016) Towards a Butlerian methodology: Undoing organizational performativity through anti-narrative research. Human Relations, 69(11), pp. 2069-2089. (doi: 10.1177/0018726716632050)

Riach, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398 and Jack, Gavin (2016) The affective economy of the business case for mature aged workers. Social Policy and Society, 15(4), pp. 611-623. (doi: 10.1017/S1474746416000282)

Jack, Gavin, Riach, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398, Bariola, Emily, Pitts, Marian, Schapper, Jan and Sarrel, Philip (2016) Menopause in the workplace: What employers should be doing. Maturitas, 85, pp. 88-95. (doi: 10.1016/j.maturitas.2015.12.006)

Smith, Charlotte and Riach, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398 (2016) Drug taking and employment: exploring the employable citizen in UK policy. Sociology, 50(1), pp. 24-42. (doi: 10.1177/0038038514554330)

Riach, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398 (2016) Ageing: the lived experience of growing up and older in organizations. In: Mir, Raza, Willmott, Hugh and Greenwood, Michelle (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Philosophy in Organization Studies. Routledge. ISBN 9780415702867 (doi: 10.4324/9780203795248)

2015

Riach, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398, Loretto, Wendy and Krekula, Clary (2015) Gendered Ageing in the New Economy: Introduction to Special Issue. Gender, Work and Organization, 22(5), pp. 437-444. (doi: 10.1111/gwao.12108)

Riach, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398 and Kelly, Simon (2015) The need for fresh blood: Understanding organizational age inequality through a vampiric lens. Organization, 22(3), pp. 287-305. (doi: 10.1177/1350508413508999)

Riach, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398 and Warren, Samantha (2015) Smell organization: Bodies and corporeal porosity in office work. Human Relations, 68(5), pp. 789-809. (doi: 10.1177/0018726714545387)

2014

Riach, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398, Rumens, Nicholas and Tyler, Melissa (2014) Un/doing chrononormativity: negotiating ageing, gender and sexuality in organizational life. Organization Studies, 35(11), pp. 1677-1698. (doi: 10.1177/0170840614550731)

Riach, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398 and Cutcher, Leanne (2014) Built to last: ageing, class and the masculine body in a UK hedge fund. Work, Employment and Society, 28(5), pp. 771-787. (doi: 10.1177/0950017013506773)

Riach, Kathleen and Wilson, Fiona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2267-4578 (2014) Bodyspace at the pub: sexual orientations and organizational space. Organization, 21(3), pp. 329-345. (doi: 10.1177/1350508413519767)

2013

Riach, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398, Loretto, Wendy and Krekula, C. (2013) Problematizing gendered ageing in the new economy. Gender, Work and Organization, 20(2), pp. 216-217. (doi: 10.1111/gwao.12023)

Kelly, Simon and Riach, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398 (2013) Monstrous reanimation: Rethinking organizational death in the UK financial services sector. Culture and Organization, 20(1), pp. 7-22. (doi: 10.1080/14759551.2013.851678)

2012

Turbine, V. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0375-8103 and Riach, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398 (2012) The right to choose or choosing what's right? Women's conceptualisations of work and life choices in contemporary Russia. Gender, Work and Organization, 19(2), pp. 165-187. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0432.2009.00494.x)

Śliwa, Martyna and Riach, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398 (2012) Making scents of transition: Smellscapes and the everyday in 'Old' and 'New' urban Poland. Urban Studies, 49(1), pp. 23-41. (doi: 10.1177/0042098011399596)

2011

Riach, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398 (2011) Understanding the experience of the ‘older worker’ in a globalized world. Work, Employment and Society, 25(4), pp. 806-813. (doi: 10.1177/0950017011419725)[Book Review]

Riach, Kat ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398 (2011) Situating age (in)equality within the paradigm and practices of diversity management. In: Parry, Emma and Tyson, Shaun (eds.) Managing an Age-Diverse Workforce. Palgrave Macmillan: London, pp. 43-58. ISBN 9781349316632 (doi: 10.1057/9780230299115_4)

Shaw, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7492-6290 and Riach, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398 (2011) Embracing ethical fields: constructing consumption in the margins. European Journal of Marketing, 45(7-8), pp. 1051-1067. (doi: 10.1108/03090561111137606)

2009

Riach, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398 and Loretto, Wendy (2009) Identity work and the 'unemployed' worker: age, disability and the lived experience of the older unemployed. Work, Employment and Society, 23(1), pp. 102-119. (doi: 10.1177/0950017008099780)

Riach, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398 (2009) Exploring participant-centred reflexivity in the research interview. Sociology, 43(2), pp. 356-370. (doi: 10.1177/0038038508101170)

Riach, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-0398 (2009) Managing ‘difference’: understanding age diversity in practice. Human Resource Management Journal, 19(3), pp. 319-335. (doi: 10.1111/j.1748-8583.2009.00096.x)

2008

Riach, Kathleen and Wilson, Fiona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2267-4578 (2008) Organizational romance: theorising and researching an underexplored phenomenon. In: Moutinho, Luiz and Huarng, Kun-Huang (eds.) Advances in Doctoral Research in Management. World Scientific: London, pp. 3-17. ISBN 9789812778659

2007

Riach, K. (2007) "Othering" older worker identity in recruitment. Human Relations, 60(11), pp. 1701-1726. (doi: 10.1177/0018726707084305)

Riach, K. and Wilson, F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2267-4578 (2007) Don't screw the crew: exploring the rules of engagement in organizational romance. British Journal of Management, 18(1), pp. 79-92. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8551.2006.00503.x)

2006

Riach, K. (2006) Older workers: Learning from three international experiences. Social Policy and Society, 5(4), pp. 551-563. (doi: 10.1017/S1474746406003253)

2004

Beirne, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5159-1539, Riach, K. and Wilson, F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2267-4578 (2004) Controlling business? Agency and constraint in call centre working. New Technology, Work and Employment, 19(2), pp. 96-109. (doi: 10.1111/j.0268-1072.2004.00130.x)

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Tyler, M. et al. (2024) Strangers in conversation: Judith Butler with gender, work and organization. Gender, Work and Organization, 31(4), pp. 1444-1462. (doi: 10.1111/gwao.13133)

Riach, K. (2007) "Othering" older worker identity in recruitment. Human Relations, 60(11), pp. 1701-1726. (doi: 10.1177/0018726707084305)

Riach, K. (2006) Older workers: Learning from three international experiences. Social Policy and Society, 5(4), pp. 551-563. (doi: 10.1017/S1474746406003253)

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Supervision

Kathleen is interested in supervising projects examining:

Organisational discrimination, diversity and inclusion, particularly studies exploring the experience of ageing, gender or illness at work
Professional Identity and emotions in the workplace
Qualitative methods, particularly innovative methods informed by sociomateriality or feminist theory

Bisht, Riya Pramod
Complex mental health at work: a critical phenomenology of disclosure
Illias, Mahnoz
Understanding the health and wellbeing of female police officers and staff in the UK
Lippi, Martina
Negotiating inclusive early careers and the virtual workplace: Diminishing or increasing the disability divide?
Lombardo, Katherine
Protecting Meaning: Mapping the Cultural Heritage Security and Preservation Landscape

Teaching

Organisation studies
Qualitative research methods

Additional information

Editorial Board Memberships

Human Relations (ABS 4, ABDC A*)(2016 - present)
Gender, Work and Organization (ABS 3, ABDC A) (2015 - present)
Organization (ABS 3, ABDC A) (2014 - present)

Expert International Reviewer

Austrian Science Fund (Austrian Research Council) large grant scheme (2017 - present)
ESRC (UK Research Council) large grant scheme. (2013 - present)
SSHRC (Canadian Research Council) large grant scheme. (2014 - present)

Professor Riach's visiting positions across the world include invitations to Sweden, Denmark and most recently Germany as a Mercator Professorial Fellow.

As well as collaborating with a range of government, private and public sector organisations, her work and commentaries regularly feature in the media in Australia, the UK and Europe, including ABC National, The Conversation and the BBC.

Dr Kathleen Riach, Professor in Organisational Studies (Management)

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