Graham Sewell

Professor Graham Sewell is Professor of Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management and Area Head in Organisational Studies in the Department of Management and Marketing, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Melbourne. He earned a PhD from the University of Wales, Cardiff in 1994 and a Bachelor's Degree with Honours from Wales. Sewell has been a Professor at the University of Melbourne since 2007.

His research specializations include workplace surveillance, teamwork, business ethics, organisation and management theory, qualitative research methods, evolutionary psychology, strategy development processes, surveillance in organizations, leadership, organizational discourse, and innovation. Sewell has 74 scholarly outputs, comprising 34 journal articles, 21 book chapters, 12 conference proceedings, 4 scholarly editions, 2 books, and 1 report. Key publications feature "Someone to watch over me': surveillance, discipline and the just-in-time labour process" (Sewell and Wilkinson, 1992), "The discipline of teams: The control of team-based industrial work through electronic and peer surveillance" (1998), "Out of sight, out of mind in a new world of work? Autonomy, control, and spatiotemporal scaling in telework" (Sewell and Taskin, 2015), "Surveillance: A Key Idea for Business and Society" (book, 2021), and "Can a leader be authentic and cruel? What happens when a vice becomes a virtue" (2024). Sewell has obtained research grants including "An Organisation Perspective on Sovereign Wealth Funds" (2012-2013) and "Learning From Preventable Deaths: A Prospective Evaluation of Reforms to Coroners' Recommendation Powers in Victoria" (2010-2013). Sewell received a 2022 University of Melbourne award and has contributed to public discussions on workplace surveillance through outlets like Pursuit by the University of Melbourne.

Professional Email: gsewell@unimelb.edu.au