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Sensing Sound
​Essay on the experience of hearing loss, published in the catalogue of Sound Art Brighton, March 2022.
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​Voice matters 
A personal story about learning to speak and listen in groups
e-Organisations & People, Vol.26, No.1, spring 2019. 
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Can we get wiser about power relating?
My personal write-up of an unusual conversation reveals quite a bit about people's real experiences of "speaking truth to power". It is also a story about how writing can help to draw in unheard voices.
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Playful facilitation methods for serious purposes. 
e-Organisations & People, Vol.25, No.1, spring 2018.  Download PDF.

Our Kafkaesque World. International Journal of Business and Globalisation, Vol. 17, No. 4, 2016. Journal website.
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Beyond communication skills – human relating: a doorway to doing good business​, by Alison Donaldson and Michael MacMahon, e-Organisations & People, journal of the Association of Management Education & Development (AMED), Vol. 23, No. 2, summer 2016. Download PDF or support e-O&P by buying the article or subscribing to the journal here.

​Revealing tales about trust. e-Organisations & People, Vol.23, No.4, winter 2016. Inspired by "The Guest" by Albert Camus. Download PDF.

​​Trust and the emotional bank account, by Alison Donaldson & Rob Warwick. Available as a Croner Strategic Briefing, April 2016.

The emergence of trusting relationships, by Alison Donaldson & Rob Warwick. Research paper for Roffey Park Institute, 2016. Free PDF from Roffey Park.

Learning from experience: why history matters in organisational life.  e-Organisations & People, winter 2013. Download PDF.

Making the Invisible Visible. Editorial for special issue of e-Organisations & People. AMED, March 2012. Available free from AMED.

A community of influence: clinician researchers join to make a difference to people affected by consequences of cancer treatment.  Chapter in: Suchman et al. Leading Change in Healthcare: transforming organizations using complexity, positive psychology and relationship-centred care. Radcliffe Publishing, 2011. See book on Amazon.

Beyond paperwork: conversation-entwined writing, or becoming alive to the special qualities of writing and conversation. Organisations & People, November 2009. PDF.

A Bright Star Touches Everyone: a moment of common reference among cancer patients. International Journal of Collaborative Practices 1(1), 2009:40-41. PDF.

​Striking moments: how reflective writing can develop new ways of seeing and acting. Organisations & People, February 2008. PDF.
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Reflexive writing and the social life of documents.  Paper presented at EGOS conference in Vienna, 2007. PDF.

Writing in organizational life: how a technology simultaneously forms and is formed by human interaction.  Chapter by Alison Donaldson in: Experiencing emergence in organizations (ed. R Stacey). Routledge, 2005.  Download PDF. 

DOCTORAL THESIS: The part played by writing in the organisational conversation, thesis for Doctor of Management in Organisational Change, Business School, University of Hertfordshire, 2003.

Book​

​Communities of Influence: improving healthcare through conversations and connections. Book by Donaldson, Lank & Maher, Radcliffe Publishing, 2011. Read more at: www.communities-of-influence.uk.

Radio interview

Why communication matters in business
​Alison Donaldson interviewed by Nick Peters for Share Radio. Download transcript. 
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