Adrian Marrison

Adrian Marrison serves as Assistant Professor in the Organisation and Work Group at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, specializing in ethnographic studies of high-risk occupations including prison officers and pedophile hunters.

Education:

• PhD, University of Cambridge (ESRC scholar)

His research examines occupational socialization, risk navigation, and invisible organizational dynamics through immersive 12+ month fieldwork. Key interests include extreme contexts, frontline work processes, and qualitative methodology development, with significant contributions to understanding how professionals manage uncertainty in volatile environments.

His 2022 Academy of Management Journal publication analyzes extreme practices through pedophile hunter ethnography, revealing critical patterns in risk perception and occupational identity formation within high-stakes contexts.

Awards:

• Grigor McClelland Doctoral Dissertation Award Finalist (2024)

Adrian teaches core modules including Managing People in a Complex World (IB3N90) across BSc International Management, Accounting and Finance, Management, and Joint Degrees programmes, plus Leading and Managing Change (IB98R0) for MSc Management. Student advising details and grant information remain unspecified in available materials.

He operates within Warwick Business School's Organisation and Work Group, which investigates fundamental workplace structures and professional behaviors through empirical organizational research.