Staff profiles
Dr Emma Martin
BA (Hons), PhD
Phone 0114 225 3320
E-mail e.martin@shu.ac.uk
Subject areas
Human Resource Management, Organisational Behaviour
Profile
Emma joined Sheffield Hallam in 2002 after completing her doctorate exploring the employment relationship in small hospitality firms at Nottingham University Business School. She teaches in the areas of human resource management and organisational behaviour from HND to doctoral level. Since joining the hospitality subject group she has worked as the course leader for the MSc in International Hospitality Management and the MSc International Conference Management.
Emma is currently the programme leader for postgraduate courses in hospitality, tourism, events and food at Sheffield Hallam and a member of the Council for Hospitality Management Education research executive. She has been part of the judging team for the British Institute of Inn Keeping, National Training Awards in 2005, 2006 and 2007 and recently acted as an academic advisor HE Skills Academy project on 'Careers in Hospitality, Retail and Sport'.
Research interests
- working lives in hospitality
- lifestyle employment
- the employment relationship in the small hospitality firm
- human resource management in hospitality
- orientations to work
- qualitative research methods including the use of diaries in management research
Teaching interests
- human resource management
- organisational behaviour
- leadership and entrepreneurship
- PhD supervision
Author of recent publications
Martin, E. and Gardiner, K (2007) 'Exploring the UK Hospitality Industry and Age Discrimination', International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management
Martin, E. and McCabe, S. (2007) 'Part time work and postgraduate students: Developing the skills for employment?' Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education
Martin, E and McCabe, S (2007) Employability and Postgraduates: embedding skill development into the curriculum, EuroCHRIE, Leeds
Martin, E. and Walton, T. (2006) 'Job satisfaction and the older hospitality worker' Hospitality Review (July)
Gardiner, K. and Martin, E (2006) 'Ready or Not? Age Discrimination Legislation is here!' Hospitality Review (July)
Martin, E. and McCabe, S. (2006) 'Part time work and postgraduate students: Developing the skills for employment?' CHME Conference, Nottingham 2006
Martin, E. and Gardiner, K (2006) 'Exploring the UK Hospitality Industry and Age Discrimination' CHME Conference, Nottingham 2006
McCabe, S. and Martin, E. (2005) 'Exploring the relationships between skills and part time work of International Postgraduate students in Tourism and Hospitality' ATHE Conference, Liverpool December 2005
Martin, E. (2004) 'Who’s Doing the Kicking? The Influence of Employee’s Orientations to Work', International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, April 2004
Martin, E. (2004) 'The influence of orientation to work on employee turnover', Hospitality Review, January 2004.
Martin, E. (2004) 'The Employment Relationship in the Small Firm: Revisiting Orientations to Work' BUIRA Conference, Nottingham July 2004.
Martin, E. (2004) 'In Search of Utopia: Creating the Employment Relationship in the Small Firm' CHME Conference, Cardiff April 2004.
Martin, E. (2003) 'Who’s Doing the Kicking? The Influence of Employee’s Orientations to Work on the Small Hospitality Firm.' CHME Conference, Sheffield April 2003. Awarded best paper in HRM stream.
Current research and consultancy projects
- Lifestyle employment in Hospitality
- Hospitality and Migration
- Age discrimination legislation and older workers in the hospitality industry
