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Mrs Jo Vincett

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  • Research Student
  • The Faculty of Business and Law
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Professional biography

Jo previously was the Associate Director for the social enterprise sector and international lead for the Career Development Office at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, USA. She also was an Adjunct Professor at Granite State College and taught a Business Management course ‘Effecting Positive Change in Organizations’.

Prior to academia, Jo started in the graphic arts paper manufacturing industry in corporate sales and marketing. After five years, she changed her focus to social enterprises and worked for the United States Peace Corps in the Eastern Caribbean as a Small Business Development Trainer and Counsellor for a rural agricultural development NGO and was the elected Lead Volunteer for a group of 19 Peace Corps Volunteers in Antigua and Barbuda.

She holds an MRes from The Open University, Faculty of Business and Law, an International MBA from Escuela de Alta Dirección y Administración (EADA) in Barcelona, Spain, and BSc in Business Administration from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She completed an apprenticeship with the United Nations International Trade Centre in Geneva, Switzerland, and United Nations Industrial Development Organisastion in Vienna, Austria. She holds a Professional Coaching Certification and also created the Professional Coaching Portal for the non-profit organization MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching).

 

Research interests

Current research

Jo's current research is an organisational ethnography of Yarl's Wood Befrienders, a voluntary organisation that visits women migrants and asylum seekers detained in Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre in Bedfordshire, England. She is a full member of the organisation she is studying, as a volunteer, befriender to detainees and a trustee on the Board of Directors responsible for fundraising. Her study furthers our knowledge of compassionate practices and emotion management in volunteer work, compassionate organisations and the voluntary sector support for immigration detainees, a marginalised and vulnerable group in society.

General research interests

  • Engaged approaches to understanding organisational cultures in the voluntary, third and public sectors
  • Migration-related issues, international development, immigration detention
  • Voluntary organisations and organisations with volunteering and/or international service learning programmes
  • Reflexivity, emotions and ethics in research
  • Ethnography and its potential for advocacy, social impact and policy change
  • Participatory and collaborative methods in qualitative research

 

External collaborations

 

Publications

Researcher self-care in organizational ethnography: lessons from overcoming compassion fatigue (2018-03)
Vincett, Joanne
Journal of Organizational Ethnography, 7(1) (pp. 44-58)
Supporting migrants and asylum seekers in and beyond immigration detention in the UK (2018)
Vincett, Joanne
In: Wroe, L.; Larkin, R. and Maglajlic, R.A. eds. Social Work with Asylum Seekers, Refugees and Undocumented People: Going the Extra Mile ((In Press))
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers | Published : London
Compassion in Volunteer Work: An Ethnography of a Befriending Organization (2018)
Vincett, Joanne; Wright, Alex and Lucas, Mike
In : 78th Annual Meeting of The Academy of Management (10-14 Aug 2018, Chicago, Illinois, USA)
Organizational Ethnography and the Art of Judgment in-the-Moment (2013)
Vincett, Joanne
In : 29th European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium (3-6 Jul 2013, Montreal, Canada)
Inside International Development Organisations: Socially Constructing Judgement in-the-Moment (2013-01-06)
Vincett, Joanne
mres thesis The Open University
Three days is still too long to hold pregnant women in immigration detention (2018-07-25)
Vincett, Joanne
The Conversation, London, UK.
I befriend women detained at Yarl’s Wood: Their life in immigration limbo is excruciating (2018-03-12)
Vincett, Joanne
The Conversation, London.
Befriending Kinships in Immigration Detention in the UK (2017-05-02)
Vincett, Joanne
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