Thomas J. Roulet FAcSS is a French-British social scientist, management thinker and professor at the University of Cambridge where he holds the Chair of Organisational Sociology and Leadership.
[9] Roulet is a regular commentator on workplace issues, leadership and management education for a variety of media including the BBC,[10][11] the Telegraph,[12][13][14] the Financial Times,[15][16][17][18] ITV News,[19][20] Le Monde,[21][22][23] The Washington Post[24][25] or The Guardian[26][27] among others.
[42] The book was shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize,[43] a runner up for the George Terry Award of the Academy of Management and the Axiom Medal.
[50] He also explored how apparently unpopular and counterintuitive ideas, such as degrowth, can anchor themselves in behaviors and be considered attractive even for capitalist firms.
[51][52] With colleagues, Roulet also wrote a piece on covert participant observation – rehabilitating the method as an important tool to uncover social phenomena that have ethical implications.
[63] In 2023, he was selected as a Mid-Career Fellow of the British Academy,[31] and he received the Pilkington Prize for Teaching Excellence awarded annually by the University of Cambridge.