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Dr Constantine Manolchev

Dr Constantine Manolchev

Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Futures

+44 (0) 1326 253613

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Science and Engineering Research Support Facility (SERSF):, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Penryn, Cornwall, TR10 9FE, UK

Dr Constantine Manolchev is a Senior Lecturer in SITE and Programme Director for BSc Business (Penryn). He studies organisations as sites of precarity and violence. His academic research further focuses on decent work, community resilience and he has published pedagogic guides on qualitative research methods. In 2022, Constantine led research on a clean growth report, commissioned for Cornwall by the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Constantine arrived in the UK on a scholarship from the prestigious George Soros Open Society Foundation. In 2016, he completed a PhD in Business and Management at Plymouth University, supervised by Professor Duncan Lewis and Professor Richard Saundry. Constantine has a BA (Hons) in Politics, Philosophy and Economics gained through part-time study with the Open University, a Postgraduate Certificate in Social Research Methods (The Open University), a Postgraduate Certificate in HRM, a Postgraduate Certificate in Research Methodology and a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (Plymouth University).

Prior to joining the University of Exeter, Constantine worked in hospital procurement, human resources and was a business advisor for local government.

Nationality: Bulgarian/British

Administrative responsibilities

  • Programme Director BSc Business (Penryn)
  • Widening Participation Lead (Penryn)
  • E&D Lead for the Business School (Penryn)

Qualifications

  • PhD
  • PG Cert
  • BA (Hons) PPE (Open)
  • ACIPD
  • FHEA

Links

Research interests

  • Migrant labour and precarious work
  • Bullying, harassment and negative behaviours in organisations
  • Organisation and organising

Research projects

  • 2019-2023: Co-I on Smart Specialisation - Higher Level Skills: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/cornwall/business/iibcornwall/higherlevelskills/sshis/
  • 2019-2023: Co-I on Accelerating Circular Skills for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly (ARCA): https://www.cornwallislesofscillygrowthprogramme.org.uk/projects/arca/
  • 2022: Co-I on Innovate UK: Thought Leadership for Clean Growth.
  • 2019-2020: PI on Top and Tailing Precarity: https://www.bam.ac.uk/grants/project-repository/funded-transitions-1-projects/2019-constantine-manolchev.html

Research networks

  • Steering group member: MEND - Management Educators Navigating Degrowth
  • Steering group member: ROUTES: Migration, mobility, displacement: https://geography.exeter.ac.uk/routes/ 
  • Affiliate: Centre for Entrepreneurship: http://business-school.exeter.ac.uk/research/centres/entrepreneurship/people/

Key publications | Publications by category | Publications by year

Publications by category

Journal articles

Manolchev C, Lewis D (In Press). A Tale of Two Trusts: Negative Behaviours in the UK Ambulance Service. Public Money and Management DOI.
Manolchev C (In Press). Learning through Games: Facilitating Meaning-Making in Online Exchanges. Management Learning Abstract.
Manolchev C, Agar C (In Press). Migrant Labour as Space: Rhythmanalysing the Agri-Food Industry. Organization: the interdisciplinary journal of organization, theory and society
Lewis D, Manolchev C, Pursell L, Hodgins M, Hogan V, Mannix-McNamara P (In Press). The SME Paradox? Investigating Ill-Treatment Behaviours in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Ireland. International Small Business Journal
Manolchev C, Einarsdottir A, Lewis D, Hoel H (In Press). Trapped in the Abject: Prison Officers’ Use of Avoidance, Compliance and Retaliation in Response to Ambiguous Humour. Culture and Organization Abstract. DOI.
Manolchev C (In Press). ‘Dances with Daffodils’: Life as a Flower-Picker in Southwest England. Work, Employment and Society
Keenan C, Manolchev C (In Press). ‘Hacking’ the pandemic: turning online work challenges into learning with IMPACT. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education
Valenzuela F, Manolchev C, Böhm S, Agar CC (2023). Working through (mis)recognition: Understanding vulnerability as ambivalence in precarious worker subjectivity. Human Relations Abstract. DOI.
Manolchev C, Cherrington R, Alexander A (2022). Towards ‘Employability 3.0’: from Practice to Praxis. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education Abstract.
Pustelnikovaite T, Nyfoudi M, Williams H, Gomes MVP, Manolchev C (2022). “Despite the Lockdown, the University Has a Lot to Offer”: Exploring University Identity During Crisis. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2022(1). DOI.
Alexander A, Manolchev C (2020). The Future of University or Universities of the Future: a Paradox for Uncertain Times. International Journal of Educational Management DOI.
Manolchev CN (2019). Book-review:. Organizational space and Beyond: the Significance of Henri Lefebvre for Organization Studies. Organization DOI.
Manolchev CN (2019). Sensemaking as ‘Self’-defence: Investigating Spaces of Resistance in Precarious Work. Competition and Change DOI.
Manolchev CN (2018). Book Review: Gilberto Antonelli and Boike Rehbein (eds), Inequality in Economics and Sociology: New Perspectives. Work, Employment and Society DOI.
Manolchev C (2018). Book Review: Mapping Precariousness, Labour Insecurity and Uncertain Livelihoods: Subjectivities and Resistance. WORK EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIETY, 32(1), 231-233. DOI.
Manolchev CN (2018). Book Review: Marcus Taylor and Sébastien Rioux, Global Labour Studies. Work, Employment and Society DOI.
Manolchev CN, Saundry R, Lewis D (2018). Breaking-up the ‘Precariat’: Personalisation, Differentiation and Deindividuation in Precarious Work Groups. Economic and Industrial Democracy DOI.
Manolchev CN, Teigen KH (2018). Counterfactual Theory as an Under-Utilised Analytical Framework for Studying Precarious Work Experiences. Personnel Review DOI.
Alexander A, Martin DP, Manolchev C, Miller K (2018). University–industry collaboration: using meta-rules to overcome barriers to knowledge transfer. The Journal of Technology Transfer DOI.

Chapters

Böhm S, Ho C-H, Holmes H, Manolchev C, Rödl M, Spekkink W (2023). 14 Circular society activism: prefigurative communities in everyday Circular Economy action. In  (Ed) Handbook of the Circular Economy, 241-260. DOI.
Brown EG, Novak M, Manolchev C, Gil S, Munoz E (2023). 15 Circular economy jobs: risks and opportunities in the labour market. In  (Ed) Handbook of the Circular Economy, 261-284. DOI.

Conferences

Manolchev C, Stussi L, Ho C-H, Campenni M, Pascucci S, Lewis D (2023). Internal ‘chutes’ and legal ‘ladders’: negative behaviour anomalies in the NHS. EGOS. 6th - 8th Jul 2023. Abstract.
Cherrington R, Manolchev C, Alexander A (2023). Towards a Circular Economy: Insights from a UK Rural Community. XXXIV ISPIM Innovation Conference. 4th - 7th Jun 2023.
Cherrington R, Alexander A, Boehm S, Manolchev C, Monciardini D, Pascucci S (2021). The sociomateriality of plastic waste: a cross-case comparison. ISPIM Innovation Conference – Innovating Our Common Future. 20th - 23rd Jun 2021.

Publications by year

In Press

Manolchev C, Lewis D (In Press). A Tale of Two Trusts: Negative Behaviours in the UK Ambulance Service. Public Money and Management DOI.
Manolchev C (In Press). Learning through Games: Facilitating Meaning-Making in Online Exchanges. Management Learning Abstract.
Manolchev C, Agar C (In Press). Migrant Labour as Space: Rhythmanalysing the Agri-Food Industry. Organization: the interdisciplinary journal of organization, theory and society
Lewis D, Manolchev C, Pursell L, Hodgins M, Hogan V, Mannix-McNamara P (In Press). The SME Paradox? Investigating Ill-Treatment Behaviours in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Ireland. International Small Business Journal
Manolchev C, Einarsdottir A, Lewis D, Hoel H (In Press). Trapped in the Abject: Prison Officers’ Use of Avoidance, Compliance and Retaliation in Response to Ambiguous Humour. Culture and Organization Abstract. DOI.
Manolchev C (In Press). ‘Dances with Daffodils’: Life as a Flower-Picker in Southwest England. Work, Employment and Society
Keenan C, Manolchev C (In Press). ‘Hacking’ the pandemic: turning online work challenges into learning with IMPACT. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education

2023

Böhm S, Ho C-H, Holmes H, Manolchev C, Rödl M, Spekkink W (2023). 14 Circular society activism: prefigurative communities in everyday Circular Economy action. In  (Ed) Handbook of the Circular Economy, 241-260. DOI.
Brown EG, Novak M, Manolchev C, Gil S, Munoz E (2023). 15 Circular economy jobs: risks and opportunities in the labour market. In  (Ed) Handbook of the Circular Economy, 261-284. DOI.
Manolchev C, Stussi L, Ho C-H, Campenni M, Pascucci S, Lewis D (2023). Internal ‘chutes’ and legal ‘ladders’: negative behaviour anomalies in the NHS. EGOS. 6th - 8th Jul 2023. Abstract.
Cherrington R, Manolchev C, Alexander A (2023). Towards a Circular Economy: Insights from a UK Rural Community. XXXIV ISPIM Innovation Conference. 4th - 7th Jun 2023.
Valenzuela F, Manolchev C, Böhm S, Agar CC (2023). Working through (mis)recognition: Understanding vulnerability as ambivalence in precarious worker subjectivity. Human Relations Abstract. DOI.

2022

Manolchev C, Cherrington R, Alexander A (2022). Towards ‘Employability 3.0’: from Practice to Praxis. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education Abstract.
Pustelnikovaite T, Nyfoudi M, Williams H, Gomes MVP, Manolchev C (2022). “Despite the Lockdown, the University Has a Lot to Offer”: Exploring University Identity During Crisis. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2022(1). DOI.

2021

Cherrington R, Alexander A, Boehm S, Manolchev C, Monciardini D, Pascucci S (2021). The sociomateriality of plastic waste: a cross-case comparison. ISPIM Innovation Conference – Innovating Our Common Future. 20th - 23rd Jun 2021.

2020

Alexander A, Manolchev C (2020). The Future of University or Universities of the Future: a Paradox for Uncertain Times. International Journal of Educational Management DOI.

2019

Manolchev CN (2019). Book-review:. Organizational space and Beyond: the Significance of Henri Lefebvre for Organization Studies. Organization DOI.
Manolchev CN (2019). Sensemaking as ‘Self’-defence: Investigating Spaces of Resistance in Precarious Work. Competition and Change DOI.

2018

Manolchev CN (2018). Book Review: Gilberto Antonelli and Boike Rehbein (eds), Inequality in Economics and Sociology: New Perspectives. Work, Employment and Society DOI.
Manolchev C (2018). Book Review: Mapping Precariousness, Labour Insecurity and Uncertain Livelihoods: Subjectivities and Resistance. WORK EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIETY, 32(1), 231-233. DOI.
Manolchev CN (2018). Book Review: Marcus Taylor and Sébastien Rioux, Global Labour Studies. Work, Employment and Society DOI.
Manolchev CN, Saundry R, Lewis D (2018). Breaking-up the ‘Precariat’: Personalisation, Differentiation and Deindividuation in Precarious Work Groups. Economic and Industrial Democracy DOI.
Manolchev CN, Teigen KH (2018). Counterfactual Theory as an Under-Utilised Analytical Framework for Studying Precarious Work Experiences. Personnel Review DOI.
Alexander A, Martin DP, Manolchev C, Miller K (2018). University–industry collaboration: using meta-rules to overcome barriers to knowledge transfer. The Journal of Technology Transfer DOI.

External positions

  • Member of Devon and Cornwall CIPD Branch Committee

  • Work and Labour
  • Employee well-being
  • HRM
  • Systems thinking for organisational change

Modules

2023/24