Alice Lam is Professor of Organization Studies at the School of Business and Management. She joined Royal Holloway in 2005 and served as the School’s Director of Research from 2007 to 2011. Additionally, she led the Research Theme Group ‘Knowledge and Organizational Learning’ from 2012 to 2021. Previously, she held academic positions as a Research Professor at Brunel University, a Reader at the University of Kent, and a Lecturer at Manchester Business School. Alice holds a PhD in Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). During her time at LSE, she was also a research fellow at the Suntory-Toyota International Centre for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD). Prior to working at LSE, she was a Monbusho scholar at Waseda University in Tokyo, where she obtained an MA in Industrial Sociology.

Alice has served as a Senior Editor of Organization Studies and remains a member of its Editorial Board.

Relevant Research

• Lam, A., & Rui, H. (2022). Global human mobility and knowledge transfer: Highly skilled return migrants as agents of transnational learning. Global Networks, 23(2), 311–331. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12384

• Lam, A. (2021). Organizational Misfits as Creative Agents of Change: The Case of Pracademics. In Research in the sociology of organizations (pp. 163–186). https://doi.org/10.1108/s0733-558x20210000075013

Interests

• Careers

• Creative Knowledge Work

• Work Role and Identity Transitions

• Hybridity

• Knowledge Transfer Across Boundaries