Our Associates: Jo Duberley

Jo joined the University of Birmingham in 2002.  Prior to this she had held posts at Heriot Watt, Sheffield, Leeds and Sheffield Hallam Universities.  She has held a wide variety of leadership posts whilst at Birmingham including, Director of undergraduate programme in Business and Management, Director of Postgraduate Research for College of Social Sciences,  Director of Research for Birmingham Business School and Director of Research for the College of Social Sciences. 

Central to her research is an interest in the concept of career.   Her main contribution in this area has been to develop a more theoretically informed and contextually embedded understanding of career.  In the last ten years she has developed research examining the impact of gender, ethnicity, social class and age on careers in a variety of contexts including defence, professional service organisations and the police in the UK.  She co-directs the Work Inclusivity Research Centre with Dr Holly Birkett and has successfully won over £2 million of research funding to support her research.  She publishes her work in journals such as Journal of Vocational Behaviour, Human Relations, Work Employment and Society and Gender Work and Organisation.

Jo is also Co-Director of the Work Inclusivity Research Centre (WIRC).