Maria+Daskalaki

 Maria Daskalaki is a Principal Lecturer at Kingston Business School, Kingston University. She is also the Liaison Director for Kingston Business School, Overseas Collaborations (Greece) for the last 6 years. She graduated with a BA in Psychology and an MA from Lancaster University in Organisational Analysis and Behaviour. She then completed her PhD in Organisation Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. She has been previously involved in interdisciplinary research on a wide range of themes and subject areas including labour markets (Reed-funded project), architecture, cityscapes and embodied creativity, practice-based organisation studies as well as knowledge management and interpersonal networks and identity (ESRC project). Maria’s work is predominantly based on observational studies and autobiographical methods. She has published in //Business and Professional Ethics Journal, International Journal of HRM, Culture and Organisations//, and a contribution to an edited book entitled //Organizations as Knowledge Systems// (Palgrave). Currently, Maria is involved in three projects that explore creativity as an embedded and embodied expression of human life: a) ‘Living Chuao’: An Organisational Boundary Crossing Experience through Art b) Parkour: The Embodiment of Creative Thought and c) Interpersonal Networks in the Creative Industries: The Film Industry in Greece.