With a background in social anthropology and a PhD from Copenhagen Business School, Irene's research interests include identity/alterity, collective moral disengagement, organisational elites and transnational life, work and (im)mobility. Her work has appeared in Human Relations, Global Networks, Group & Organization Management, Critique of Anthropology, European Journal of International Management, Organization, Social & Cultural Geography, The Conversation and in books from Palgrave Macmillan and Information Age Publishing.

Media coverage:

The desperate families torn apart by Covid rules
Outlet: CNN Online Date: 02/05/2021 12:08
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Dr Irene Skovgaard-Smith (NBS), who is conducting research on transnationals and their wellbeing during the pandemic, quoted.

Related research output: 

Skovgaard-Smith, I. (2021). Transnational life and cross-border immobility in pandemic times. Global Networks, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12350

The Conversation (International), 9/11/17

"To be cosmopolitan you don’t have to be rootless or a member of the global elite"

https://theconversation.com/to-be-cosmopolitan-you-dont-have-to-be-rootless-or-a-member-of-the-global-elite-85636

Related research output: 

Imagining ‘non-nationality’: Cosmopolitanism as a source of identity and belonging

Also published by BBC Worklife (International), United Kingdom, Web

"The complex world of the global citizen"

10/11/17

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20171110-the-complex-world-of-the-global-citizen

"How European academics are feeling about life in Britain a year after Brexit vote"

22/06/17

The Conversation (International), United Kingdom, Web

https://theconversation.com/how-european-academics-are-feeling-about-life-in-britain-a-year-after-brexit-vote-78687