Dr. Christine A. Hemingway’s work is geared towards the creation of social, environmental and economic value. She is one of the founding scholars of the micro-foundations of corporate social responsibility (micro-CSR). This is a sociological and psychological perspective that investigates responsible/irresponsible organizational contexts, and the development of formal and informal leaders, or activists, known as ‘corporate social entrepreneurs’. Her pioneering work has inspired a practitioner movement, and is widely cited in major scholarly journals.

Prior to joining UCL, Christine was a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the Institute of Management Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London. This followed on from a Research Fellowship at Imperial College London, and Lectureships (Assistant Professor) at the Universities of Loughborough, Aston and Hull, lecturing also in Hong Kong, Singapore, and South Africa. Christine’s Visiting Scholarships include Darden UVA, EPFL Switzerland, and the Universities of Sheffield and Nottingham. She has also been a doctoral external examiner at Cranfield Management School, Cranfield University, UK.

Christine spent the first 12 years of her career based within the headquarters of blue-chip MNCs, with line management and budget responsibility for some globally recognised consumer brands, getting promoted regularly, and working her way up from graduate trainee. This experience preceded her appointment as a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the beginning of her academic career, prior to commencing on a part-time programme of study at the Nottingham University Business School, University of Nottingham, for her doctorate in Business and Management. Christine’s extensive management career, spanning a number of industries, informs her research and teaching, and led to her ethnographic investigation of an anonymised $5bn FTSE 100 and Forbes Global 2000 company, published as a research monograph, by the Cambridge University Press.