Professor Dr. Kirstie Mcallum

Biography

Kirstie McAllum is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the Université de Montréal. Her research interests focus on deepening the understanding of how organizational members construct meaning in their work. She is particularly interested in the experiences of occupational identities, especially in hybrid public-private spaces, such as in-home care environments. McAllum examines communicative processes to create certain types of collective behavior and facilitate or constrain organizational participation. Her work includes investigations into professionalism discourses that intertwine organizational control with coordination mechanisms, impacting relationality, collaboration, and dissent within organizations. Over the years, she has been involved in numerous research projects exploring themes such as organizational communication, nonprofit organizations, and vocational identity. McAllum has published extensively in her field and supervises graduate students actively in their research.

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