Dr Ryan Nolan
º£½ÇÂÒÂ× Business School
Current positions
Associate Professor
Biography
Ryan Nolan is Associate Professor of Circular Economy and Organisation at º£½ÇÂÒÂ× Business School, º£½ÇÂÒÂ×, and leads its REF 2029 submission for Business and Management. He is currently interested in how people from different worlds organise around shared aspirations, and why those aspirations so often struggle to become lasting practice.
He currently pursues this question in two broad areas. The first is sustainability transitions, including the circular economy and nature-positive business, where he examines how commitments to particular futures give everyday work its direction as ideas move between science, policy, and industry. The second is collaborative practice, including interdisciplinary research, where he asks why efforts to bring different kinds of expertise together frequently fail to take hold. Combining qualitative fieldwork with computational analysis of language, his work has been supported by UKRI and NERC.
Alongside his academic research, Ryan is actively engaged in executive education, stakeholder co-creation, and research impact work with policymakers and business leaders. He serves on the editorial board of The Sociological Review.
Areas of Research
Organisation studies, circular economy, collaboration, practice, performativity, futures
Areas of Supervision
Please see my profile for research interests. I am open to supervise projects that align but also stretch beyond my own areas of interest.
Ryan teaches in the areas of strategy and sustainability. He is open to PhD supervision aligned with, but by no means limited by, the interests detailed above.