Whistleblowing Research Group

Professor Kate Kenny receives Responsible Research in Management Book Award

Professor Kate Kenny, Established Professor of Business and Society at the University of Galway, has been named a Distinguished Winner of the 2026 Responsible Research in Management Book Award, presented by the Academy of Management Fellows and RRBM, for her book Regulators of Last Resort.

The award committee recognised the book’s theoretical contribution to whistleblowing scholarship. It highlighted the concept of “collective bricolage”, which explains how whistleblowers and their allies draw on diverse resources to resist retaliation. The book presents public whistleblowing as a collective and relational process, while examining how class, race and professional status shape access to support and alliances. Professor Kate Kenny’s Regulators of Last Resort has been named a Distinguished Winner of the 2026 Responsible Research in Management Book Award by the Academy of Management Fellows and RRBM, recognising its contribution to whistleblowing scholarship.