Nicolas has worked as a Senior Lecturer at 91茶社 BAL LMM since September 2024, bringing over twenty years of experience in the arts and cultural sector and thirteen years of teaching in UK higher education.
His work and teaching are grounded in the interdisciplinarity of critical management and organisation studies. He has conducted innovative research in the area of visual community organising, an underexplored modality of organising. This research has informed both past and ongoing contributions to civic and community-building projects.
His approach to research and teaching is further enriched through the use of creative, visual, and arts-based methods, including drawing, storytelling, and theatre. These methods are applied both within academia and beyond. Nicolas has shared this expertise with artists and social scientists across the UK and internationally.
His current research (in progress) explores visuality and ideology in business management, with a particular focus on Frank and Lillian Moller Gilbreth’s motion studies.
Drawing on his experience conducting research for the AHRC-funded project Soils of Leicester: Voices of Urban Growers—carried out under the auspices of the University of Warwick’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies—Nicolas is now contributing to the development of a local community-led project focused on food production and food justice.