Research at the Work Inclusivity Research Centre

Academic Publications

• Cassell, C.M., Watson, K. Ford, J. and Kele, J. (2021) Understanding inclusion in the retail industry: incorporating the majority perspective. Published in Personnel Review
• Radcliffe, L. Cassell, C.M. and Malik, F. (2021) Providing, performing and protecting, single parent identities. (2021) Published in British journal of Management
• Schaub, J. and Greenchester, A. (2022) Gender and sexuality: ensuring social work meets LGBTQ+ people’s needs. Practice Guidance. Community Care Inform. [online] https://adults.ccinform.co.uk/practice-guidance/gender-and-sexuality-ensuring-social-work-meets-lgbtq-peoples-needs/
• Gibney, J. and Nicholds, A. (2021) Re-imagining Place Leadership as Social Purpose, In: Sotarauta, M. and Beer, A., eds. Handbook On City And Regional Leadership, Edward Elgar: Cheltenham
• Forbes, S., Birkett, H., Evans, L., Chung, H., & Whiteman, J. (2020). Managing employees during the Covid-19 lockdown: Changing preferences and the future of work
• Chung, H., Seo, H., Forbes, S., & Birkett, H. (2020). Working from home during the COVID-19 lockdown: Changing preferences and the future of work.
• McCarthy, L., Soundararajan, V. & Taylor, S. (2020) ‘The hegemony of men in global value chains: Why it matters for labour governance’. Human Relations
• Smolovic-Jones, O., Smolovic-Jones, S., Taylor, S. & Yarrow, E. (2020) ‘I wanted more women in, but…’: Oblique resistance to gender equality initiatives’. Work, Employment & Society.
• Smolovic-Jones, S., Smolovic-Jones, O., Taylor, S. & Yarrow, E. (2020) ‘Theorising gender desegregation as political work: The case of the Welsh Labour Party’. Gender, Work & Organization.
• Bell, E., Merilainen, S., Taylor, S. & Tienari, S. (2020) ‘Dangerous knowledge: The political, personal, and epistemological promise of feminist research in management and organization studies’, International Journal of Management Reviews, 22: 177-192.
• Atkinson, C., Beck, V., Brewis, J., Davies, A., & Duberley, J. (2020). Menopause and the workplace: new directions in HRM research and HR practice. Human Resource Management Journal. (forthcoming) published on line May 2020
• Atkinson., Carmichael, F and Duberley, J (2020) The menopause taboo at work: examining women’s embodied experiences of menopause in the UK police service. Work Employment and Society (forthcoming) published online December 2020
• Cohen, L and Duberley J (2020) Women in extraordinary times: The impact of external jolts on professional women’s careers, Journal of Professions and Organisations (forthcoming) published on line December 2020
• Gribling, M., & Duberley, J. (2020). Global competitive pressures and career ecosystems: contrasting the performance management systems in UK and French business schools. Personnel Review. (forthcoming) published online September 2020
• Shah, S. Bradbury-Jones, C., Taylor, J. ( 2020). Using Facebook to tell stories of premature ageing and sexual and reproductive healthcare across the life course for women with cerebral palsy in the UK and US BMJ Open.
• McCann, L., Granter, E., Aroles, A., Hyde, P. (2020) 'Upon the gears and upon the wheels': terror convergence and total administration in the neoliberal university. Management Learning. 51(4): 431–451.
• Aroles, J., Granter, E. and de Vaujany, FX. (2020) ‘Becoming mainstream’: the professionalisation and corporatisation of digital nomadism. New Technology, Work and Employment 35(1): 114-129.
• Granter, E (2020) Critical Theory and the Post Work Imaginary, in Aroles, J., de Vaujany, FX and Dale, K. (eds.), Experiencing the New World of Work. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Wierman, B, Granter, E and McCann, L (2020) Anarchy in Management Today, in M Parker, M., Stoborod, K. and Swann, T. (eds.), Anarchism, Organization and Management: Critical Perspectives for Students. London: Routledge.
• Gibney, J. and Nicholds, A. (2021) Re-imagining Place Leadership as Social Purpose, In: Sotarauta, M. and Beer, A., eds. Handbook On City And Regional Leadership, Edward Elgar: Cheltenham.
• Collinge C (2020), "Theorizing, Deleuzian-style" in Cultural Geographies Vol. 27.4 pp.545-560
• Bell, E., Meriläinen, S., Taylor, S. & Tienari, J. (2019). ‘Time’s up! Feminist theory and activism meets organization studies’, Human Relations,72(1), pp.4–22.
• Kenny, E. J. & Donnelly, R. (2019). ‘Navigating the gender structure in IT: How does this affect the experiences and behaviours of women in tech?’ Human Relations (OnlineFirst).
• Vershinina, N., Rodgers, P., McAdam, M. & Clinton, E. (2019). ‘Transnational migrant entrepreneurship, gender and family business’. Global Networks Journal.
• Jones, S., Martinez Dy, A. and Vershinina, N. (2018). ‘“We were fighting for our place”: Resisting gender knowledge regimes through feminist knowledge network formation’. Gender, Work and Organization.
• Rodgers, P., Vershinina, N., Williams, C. C., & Theodorakopoulos, N. (2018). ‘Leveraging symbolic capital: the use of blat networks across transnational spaces’. Global Networks.
• Tienari, J. & Taylor, S. (2018). ‘Feminism and men: Ambivalent space for acting up’, Organization.
• Trehan, K., Higgins, D., & Jones, O. (2018). ‘Engaged scholarship: Questioning relevance and impact in contemporary entrepreneurship/small and medium-sized enterprise research’. International Small Business Journal, 36(4), 363-367.
• Vershinina, N. A., Rodgers, P., Ram, M., Theodorakopoulos, N., & Rodionova, Y. (2018). ‘False self‐employment: the case of Ukrainian migrants in London's construction sector’. Industrial Relations Journal, 49(1), pp.2-18.
• Vershinina, N., Woldesenbet Beta, K., & Murithi, W. (2018). ‘How does national culture enable or constrain entrepreneurship? Exploring the role of Harambee in Kenya’. Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 25(4), pp.687-704.
• Birkett, H., Carmichael, F., & Duberley, J. (2017). ‘Activity in the third age: Examining the relationship between careers and retirement experiences’. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 103, pp.52-65.
• Durepos, G., McKinlay, A. & Taylor, S. (2017). ‘Narrating histories of women at work: Archives, stories, and the promise of feminism’, Business History, 59(8), pp.1261-1279.
• Ram, M., Edwards, P., Jones, T., & Villares-Varela, M. (2017). ‘From the informal economy to the meaning of informality: Developing theory on firms and their workers’. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 37(7/8), pp.361-373.
• Ram, M., Jones, T., & Villares-Varela, M. (2017). ‘Migrant entrepreneurship: Reflections on research and practice’. International Small Business Journal, 35(1), pp.3-18.
• Vershinina, N., Barrett, R., & McHardy, P. (2017). ‘Logics and rationalisations underpinning entrepreneurial decision-making’. Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 24(1), 158-175.
• Wheatley, D. (2017). ‘Autonomy in paid work and employee subjective well-being’. Work and Occupations, 44(3), pp.296-328.

Book Contributions

• Blackledge, A. & Trehan, K. (2018). ‘Language, Superdiversity and Self-Employment’ in Phillimore, J., Wei, L., Robinson, M., Blackledge, A., Rock, F., Baynham, M., Tagg, C. The Routledge Handbook of Language and Superdiversity, pp. 21-45: Routledge.
• Land, C., Sutherland, N. & Taylor, S. (2018). ‘Back to the Brewster: Craft brewing, gender and the dialectical interplay of retraditionalisation and innovation’, in Bell, E., Toraldo, M.L., Taylor, S. & Mangia, G. (eds) The Organization of Craft Work: Identities, meanings & materialities. New York: Routledge.
• Lawton, C. & Wheatley, D. (2018). ‘The Quality of Work Among Older Workers’, in Caven, V. & Nachmias, S. (eds.) Hidden Inequalities in the Workplace (pp. 91-126): Springer.
• Coogan, T., & Cluley, R. (2017). ‘Servicescapes, people, brands, and marketing management’, in Bolt, D. & Penketh, C. (eds). Disability, Avoidance and the Academy. London: Routledge.
• Kenny, E. J. (2017). ‘Minority ethnic employees experiences in the workplace’ in Cornish T. & Calvard T. (eds). The Psychology of Ethnicity in Organizations. London: Palgrave.
• Nicholds, A., Gibney, J., Mabey, C., & Hart, D. (2017). ‘Making sense of variety in place leadership: The case of England’s smart cities’. Regional studies, 51(2), 249-259.
• Villares-Varela, M., Ram, M., & Jones, T. (2017). ‘Female Immigrant Global Entrepreneurship: From Invisibility to Empowerment?’ in Henry, C., Nelson, T., Lewis, K.V. (eds.) (2017) The Routledge Companion to Global Female Entrepreneurship.
• Wintersberger, D. (2017). ‘International Human Resource Management: A Case Study Approach’: Kogan Page Publishers.

Practitioner Publications

• Birkett, H. & Forbes, S. (2018). ‘Dads are missing out: The multiple barriers that have prevented fathers from taking Shared Parental Leave’. Midlands Business Insider, November issue

Reports & Policy Briefs

• Birkett, H. and Forbes, S. (2018). ‘Shared Parental Leave: Why is take-up so low and what can be done?’

Blogs & Press Pieces

• Taylor, S. (2018). ‘Closing the gender pay gap: Should men take a pay cut?’, The Conversation, 5^th March

• Taylor, S. & Smolovic Jones, O. (2016). ‘Can quotas make gender equality happen in politics?’, The Conversation, 27^th September

• Taylor, S. (2016). ‘Calling all men – Five ways you can be a feminist at work’, The Conversation, 2^nd August

• Taylor, S. (2015). ‘University Challenge and lesson on quotas for British business’, The Conversation, 13^th January

• Taylor, S. (2015). ‘God’s work? The battle over religious belief in the office’, The Conversation, 2^nd April

Events

Internal

• Disability and Leadership: New Challenges – New Possibilities? Online workshop hosted in collaboration with the (UK) National Association of Disabled Staff Networks (NADSN) and PurpleSpace, Wednesday 2^nd June 2021.
• Half-Day Workshop (External speakers: Dr Louise Ashley, University of London; Professor Marylyn Carrigan, Keele University) Tuesday 4^th December 2018, 1.00pm – 5.00pm, Birmingham Business School.

• ‘Crafting Papers for Publication: Novelty and Convention in Academic Writing’ Workshop (External speaker: Professor Gerardo Patriotta, General Editor of Journal of Management Studies) 10^th December 2018, 12.00pm – 2.00pm, Birmingham Business School.

• Half-Day Workshop (External speaker: Professor Carol Atkinson, Manchester Metropolitan University) Thursday 13^th June 2019, 1.00pm – 5.00pm, Birmingham Business School.

External

• John Gibney (9^th November 2020) Place Leadership as Social Purpose, Place-based leadership panel, RSA Global Webinar series, Worldwide Online.
• The Centre for Women’s Entrepreneurship & Leadership (WE-LEAD) & The Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM) joint event: ‘Not The Normal Network: Leaders and Storytellers’ 18^th October 2018, 9.30am – 1.00pm, Birmingham Repertory Theatre.

• Hampton-Alexander Review Breakfast Roundtable Wednesday 21^st November 2018, 8.00am – 10.00am, KPMG Birmingham.

• Birmingham Literature Festival Jo Duberley introduced Helen Pankhurst’s talk about her book ‘Deeds not Words’ 9^th October 2018, Birmingham Repertory Theatre.

• ‘Shaping The Future of Women at Work’ Conference Wednesday 30^th January 2019 – London.

Successful bids

• Funder: What Works LGBTQ
  Project: LYPSA: Lgbtq+ Young People in Social cAre
  Award: £260,000
  Dates: March 2021 – March 2023
  Principal Investigator: Dr Jason Schaub
  With: Professor Paul Montgomery and Dr Willem Stander (Birmingham)

• Funder: National Institute of Health Research, School of Social Care Research
  Project: LOASCA: Lgbtq+ Older Adult Social Care Assessment study
  Award: £270,000
  Dates: October 2021 – September 2023
  Principal Investigator: Dr Jason Schaub
  With: Dr Stephen Hicks (Manchester), Dr Paul Willis (Bristol) Professor Ben Thomas (Opening Doors London) and Dr Liadh Timmins (Birmingham)

• Funder: Ministry of Defence
  Project: Defence Inclusivity: The Lived Experience
  Award: £299, 96.00
  Dates: 01/07/16 – 30/11/18
  Principal Investigator: Etlyn J Kenny (with Jo Duberley)

• Funder: British Academy Small Grants
  Project: Women, Computing and Identity: The Salience of Gender in the IT Profession
  Award: £9,990.00
  Dates: 01/11/15 – 31/10/17
  Principal Investigator: Etlyn J Kenny (with Rory Donnelly)

• Funder: UoB Education Enhancement Fund
  Project: The Education Experience of Widening Participation Students
  Award: £5,260
  Dates: 2014 – 2015
  Principal Investigators: Nick Rowbottom and Dan Herbert

• Funder: British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant
  Project: The experiences of Disabled Entrepreneurs on a scheme to promote disability entrepreneurship
  Award: £10,000
  Date: Awarded in 2015
  Principal Investigator: Thomas Coogan
  Grant number: SG152018

Current PhD students

• Emma Partlow: Equalities legislation on disabled people in the workplace
• Lowri Evans: Research Assistant for The Equal Parenting Project