Biography
Dr. Rachelle Pascoe-Deslauriers is Assistant Professor in Commerce and Women’s & Gender Studies at Mount Allison University (MTA). Her doctoral research at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow conceptualized the job transition process as a continuous processes, focusing on how the factors and actors in the job transition process impacts job quality following job loss, and was awarded the 2016 EFMD/Emerald Outstanding Doctoral Research Award in the category of Human Resource Management.
Prior to coming to MTA, Rachelle worked in the Scottish Centre for Employment Research (SCER) at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow on a series of research and industry engagement projects in the areas of workplace innovation and Fair, Innovative and Transformative Work (funders include the Scottish Government, Scottish Enterprise, Skills Development Scotland and the Scottish Funding Council).
Rachelle’s research and teaching interests include a focus on the implications of organizational policies and practices, and social and labour market policies for the job quality of workers. She is interested in how policies interact to shape the design and nature of work. Rachelle is currently interested in these issues in the context of layoffs, organizational restructuring and involuntary job loss. Working with the team at SCER, Rachelle works to consider how the interactions and overlaps of workplace practices and processes can enable and support fair work and workplace innovation in ways that offer shared benefit for employees and organizations.