Kate Kenny is full Professor of Business and Society at University of Galway Ireland. She has held research fellowships at Cambridge University’s Judge Business School, and the Edmond J. Safra Lab at Harvard University. Her research centres on the contribution of psychosocial and feminist theory to the study of organizations. Books include Regulators of Last Resort: Whistleblowers, the Limits of the Law and the Power of Partnerships (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2024), Perspectives on Whistleblowing: Cases and Theories (Bristol University Press, forthcoming 2024, with I. Munro and M. Fotaki), Whistleblowing: Toward a New Theory (Harvard University Press, 2019), The Whistleblowing Guide (Wiley Business, 2019, with W. Vandekerckhove and M. Fotaki), Understanding Identity and Organizations (Sage 2011, with A. Whittle and H. Willmott), and Affect at Work: The Psychosocial and Organization Studies (Palgrave 2014, with M. Fotaki). Her work has been cited in the UK House of Commons, and in EU policy documents. She has written and contributed to articles in the Financial Times, the Irish Times, the Guardian and contributed to programmes on Ireland’s RTÉ (radio and television) and TG4. 

Indicative Topics for SyMeCo Supervision:

• Digital Whistleblowing Speak-up Arrangements;
• Whistleblower Networks- Partners and Allies;
• Democracy, Critique and Whistleblowing;
• Whistleblowing in Software & Services Sectors
• Open Source Whistleblowing Systems in Practice
• Whistleblowing & Global South Software Workplaces