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Unemployment (2025)
Book Chapter
Briken, K., & Maclean, G. (2025). Unemployment. In Elgar Encyclopedia of Critical Management Studies (487-488). Edward Elgar Publishing

Care (2025)
Book Chapter
Maclean, G., & Briken, K. (2025). Care. In Elgar Encyclopedia of Critical Management Studies (53-54). Edward Elgar Publishing

A Crisis of Energy: War and Heat in the Professional Kitchens of North East England (2025)
Journal Article
Maclean, G., & Hill, D. (online). A Crisis of Energy: War and Heat in the Professional Kitchens of North East England. Current Sociology, https://doi.org/10.1177/00113921251324738

The invasion of Ukraine by Russia in February 2022 led to a dramatic increase in energy prices in the UK. Chefs interviewed in the North East of England were found already struggling with post-lockdown re-opening, now huge energy bills and food short... Read More about A Crisis of Energy: War and Heat in the Professional Kitchens of North East England.

Written evidence submitted by the research team of the following project: “Investigating the use of temporary accommodation for housing asylum seekers and refugees during the COVID-19 outbreak” (2025)
Report
Guma, T., Maclean, G., Blake, Y., & Makutsa, R. (2025). Written evidence submitted by the research team of the following project: “Investigating the use of temporary accommodation for housing asylum seekers and refugees during the COVID-19 outbreak”

Written evidence submitted to Home Affairs Committee inquiry

The Broomhouse Centre & Enterprises Report (2023)
Report
Maclean, G., O'Donnell, E., Cunningham, A., & Ran, J. (2023). The Broomhouse Centre & Enterprises Report. Broomehouse Centre and Edinburgh Napier University

Report produced from consultancy work Edinburgh Napier University was asked to conduct on behalf of the The Broomhouse Centre.

“Are we criminals?” – everyday racialisation in temporary asylum accommodation (2023)
Journal Article
Guma, T., Blake, Y., Maclean, G., MacLeod, K., Makutsa, R., & Sharapov, K. (2024). “Are we criminals?” – everyday racialisation in temporary asylum accommodation. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 47(4), 742-762. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2023.2238052

This paper critically examines the placement of people seeking asylum in temporary accommodation during the Covid-19 pandemic. It is based on a 14-month collaborative ethnography conducted between 2020 and 2022 with asylum seeking individuals in Glas... Read More about “Are we criminals?” – everyday racialisation in temporary asylum accommodation.

A Crisis of Energy: Plant Work and Sustainability in Professional Kitchens (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hill, D., & Maclean, G. (2023, April). A Crisis of Energy: Plant Work and Sustainability in Professional Kitchens. Paper presented at BSA Annual Conference 2023: Sociological Voices in Public Discourse, Manchester

Professional kitchens find themselves at the forefront of ‘polycrisis’: a recruitment crisis born of tightened borders; a cost-of-living crisis based on soaring food and energy costs that pose an existential threat to the entire hospitality sector; a... Read More about A Crisis of Energy: Plant Work and Sustainability in Professional Kitchens.

What ‘Work’ Does Precarity Do? Understanding the Stigmatisation and Commodification of Asylum Seekers in Temporary Housing (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Maclean, G., Guma, T., Macleod, K., Sharapov, K., Blake, Y., & Makutsa, R. (2023, April). What ‘Work’ Does Precarity Do? Understanding the Stigmatisation and Commodification of Asylum Seekers in Temporary Housing. Paper presented at BSA Annual Conference 2023: Sociological Voices in Public Discourse, Manchester

News coverage and public policy over the past 20 years portrays asylum seekers as a burden that must be shared across the country. Through policy choices over this time originating in the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999, asylum accommodation operates... Read More about What ‘Work’ Does Precarity Do? Understanding the Stigmatisation and Commodification of Asylum Seekers in Temporary Housing.

Into the Planthroposcene - together with the photosynthetic ones (2023)
Digital Artefact
Carabelli, G., & Maclean, G. (2023). Into the Planthroposcene - together with the photosynthetic ones. [Video]

How present are plants in your life? Do you notice them, or consider them part of the background? This video explores the relationships we have with the photosynthetic ones - those beings thanks to whom we can breathe, and thus be alive. By learning... Read More about Into the Planthroposcene - together with the photosynthetic ones.

Production of Bureaucracy/Bureaucracies of Production: Understanding formal organisation on and off screen (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Maclean, G. (2022, June). Production of Bureaucracy/Bureaucracies of Production: Understanding formal organisation on and off screen. Paper presented at Critical Studies in Television Slow Conference, Edge Hill University [online]

The post-2016 conjuncture can be viewed in terms of an anti-bureaucratic romanticism in parts of the Global North (Lopdrup-Hjorth and Du Gay, 2020). The votes for Brexit in the UK and the rise of right-wing populists, such as Donald Trump, can be clo... Read More about Production of Bureaucracy/Bureaucracies of Production: Understanding formal organisation on and off screen.

Safe environment? Understanding the housing of asylum seekers and refugees during the Covid-19 outbreak (2022)
Report
Guma, T., Maclean, G., MacLeod, K., & Sharapov, K. (2022). Safe environment? Understanding the housing of asylum seekers and refugees during the Covid-19 outbreak. ESRC

This report presents the key findings of the research project: Investigating the use of temporary accommodation to house people seeking asylum during the Covid-19 outbreak. The project explored
the impact of the Covid-19 outbreak on people seeking a... Read More about Safe environment? Understanding the housing of asylum seekers and refugees during the Covid-19 outbreak.

I Am Still Here (2022)
Exhibition / Performance
MacLeod, K., Guma, T., MacLean, G., & Sharapov, K. I Am Still Here. [Digital Video]. Exhibited at Glasgow Media Access Centre. 23 February 2022 - 23 February 2022

Premiere screening of "I Am Still Here" documentary film at Glasgow Media Access Centre as part of hybrid launch of project "Investigating the use of temporary accommodation to house asylum seekers and refugees during the Covid 19 outbreak."
Napier... Read More about I Am Still Here.

‘Are we criminals?’ Encounters with accommodation providers and everyday housing experiences amongst asylum seekers living in Glasgow during the pandemic (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Guma, T., Blake, Y., Maclean, G., MacLeod, K., Sharapov, K., & Makutsa, R. (2021, December). ‘Are we criminals?’ Encounters with accommodation providers and everyday housing experiences amongst asylum seekers living in Glasgow during the pandemic. Paper presented at Refugee Borders and Home-making, Barcelona

This paper addresses these gaps in our knowledge. It draws from TEMPACCO research project (https://tempacco.wordpress.com/), which is an ongoing 12-month digital collaborative ethnography carried out with asylum seekers living in Glasgow. The project... Read More about ‘Are we criminals?’ Encounters with accommodation providers and everyday housing experiences amongst asylum seekers living in Glasgow during the pandemic.

Workplace Preparedness for an Ageing Workforce: A Case Study (2021)
Journal Article
Egdell, V., Raeside, R., Chen, T., & Maclean, G. (2022). Workplace Preparedness for an Ageing Workforce: A Case Study. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 42(9/10), 890-907. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSSP-07-2021-0175

Design/methodology/approach
A questionnaire survey of workplaces was undertaken in the Fife region of Scotland, which in economic and demographic terms is representative of wider Scotland and other nations in Northern Europe. Descriptive analysis wa... Read More about Workplace Preparedness for an Ageing Workforce: A Case Study.

Safe environment? Investigating the use of temporary accommodation to house asylum seekers during the Covid-19 outbreak (2021)
Report
Guma, T., Maclean, G., Macleod, K., & Sharapov, K. (2021). Safe environment? Investigating the use of temporary accommodation to house asylum seekers during the Covid-19 outbreak. ESRC

This report presents interim findings of the research project: Investigating the use of temporary accommodation to house asylum seekers during the Covid-19 outbreak. The project explores the impact of the Covid-19 outbreak on asylum seekers living in... Read More about Safe environment? Investigating the use of temporary accommodation to house asylum seekers during the Covid-19 outbreak.

Understanding the housing of asylum seekers and refugees during the Covid-19 outbreak (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Guma, T., Sharapov, K., Blake, Y., Makutsa, R., Maclean, G., & Macleod, K. (2021, July). Understanding the housing of asylum seekers and refugees during the Covid-19 outbreak. Paper presented at Disrupting Theory, Unsettling Practice: Towards Transformative Forced Migration Scholarship and Policy, University of Ghana

Paper presented at Disrupting Theory, Unsettling Practice: Towards Transformative Forced Migration Scholarship and Policy, University of Ghana, 26-30 July 2021.

Midlife Creativity and Identity: Life into Art (2019)
Journal Article
Maclean, G. (2019). Midlife Creativity and Identity: Life into Art. Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change, 4(2),

Review of the book "Midlife Creativity and Identity: Life into Art" by Philip Miles.

Age management in the workplace: manager and older worker accounts of policy and practice (2018)
Journal Article
Egdell, V., Maclean, G., Raeside, R., & Chen, T. (2020). Age management in the workplace: manager and older worker accounts of policy and practice. Ageing and society, 40(4), 784-804. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X18001307

The impact of an ageing workforce on the workplace is a concern internationally. Governments are increasingly encouraging the continued labour market participation of older workers, seeking to remove previous barriers to the extension of working live... Read More about Age management in the workplace: manager and older worker accounts of policy and practice.