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U. London, She holds an MSc in Organizational Social Psychology and a PhD in Social Psychology from London School of Economics. Her book 'Social Identity in Question: Construction, Subjectivity and Critique' is published by Routledge, Her current research explores organizational phenomena from critical and psychoanalytic perspectives