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Gloria Kutscher is a lecturer at Southampton Business School, specializing in organizational studies. Her research focuses on how individuals and organizations make sense of and manage boundaries between work and life spheres. This includes examining career transitions, organizational structures, and the challenges posed by hybrid and precarious work environments. Gloria aims to uncover the often-invisible experiences of blue-collar and minority workers, emphasizing the role of personal and organizational practices in fostering positive social change. With a commitment to advancing management theories related to boundary work and sensemaking, Gloria employs longitudinal and ethnographic methods to capture dynamic processes over time. Prior to her current role, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Management Studies at Aalto University School of Business and completed her PhD in Management at WU Vienna in 2018. Her work emphasizes understanding long-term developments in organizations, aiming to produce impactful research that supports underrepresented groups in navigating evolving work realities.