People in WIRC

Dr Holly Birkett is a Senior Lecturer in Organisation Studies and Director of the Work Inclusivity Research Centre (WIRC) at the University of Birmingham. She is Co-Director of the Equal Parenting Project and a member of the Department of Management. Holly's research field is careers and career transitions and she is currently conducting research into parental leave policies, ...

Fiona joined Birmingham Business School in 2007. She has a PhD in Economics from the University of East Anglia (1989) and an MPhil in economics from Cambridge University (1985). Her first degree  in Economics, Politics and Quantitative Methods is from The University of East Anglia (1983). Her main theoretical and empirical contributions are concentrated at the ...

Specialisms

Specialisms include:

• Regional and local economic change, with particular reference to the emergence of regional knowledge economies in a cross-national context
• Evolving patterns of public sector governance, strategy and leadership, as between markets, hierarchies, groups and decentred networks
• Issues in the theorization of political and economic change at the sub-national level (from ...

Dr Christian Darko is an Associate Professor in Labour and Development Economics. Christian’s research mainly takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the process of human capital development and labour market outcomes particularly in developing countries. His primary research focuses on the education and employment of marginalised people with emphasis on inequalities including ...

Tony is Professor of Work and Employment Relations at Birmingham Business School. He is part of the Organisation, Work and Employment (OWE) group in the Department of Management. He joined Birmingham Business School in May 2018, from Bangor University. Tony has over twenty years of employment relations experience as an academic, researcher, and journalist in the UK and Republic of Ireland, ...

Professor Jo Duberley is Deputy Head of the College of Social Sciences. Jo is also Co-Director of the Work Inclusivity Research Centre (WIRC). She is an elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and the Royal Association of Arts and Manufacturing and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. 

Jo joined the University of Birmingham in 2002 as a lecturer in ...

Research Interests

• Leadership and governance in city, regional and trans-border development (place leadership)
• Leadership education and learning
• Responsible economic development at the sub-national scale
• Knowledge and learning policy at the sub-national scale

Michel Goyer joined BBS in June 2013 from Warwick Business School where he was a member of the Industrial Relations and Organizational Behaviour group. He was also a committee member in the Industrial Relations Research Unit (IRRU) at Warwick. Previous appointments include visiting research fellow at the Wissenschaftszentrum (Berlin), post-doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study ...

After completing an undergraduate degree in geography, Anne has spent nearly all of her career conducting applied research of relevance to academia and policy in research centres/ institutes in the higher education sector.

She started her career at the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS) in Newcastle. Apart from a short stint at the Department for City and Regional Planning ...

Dr Andy Hodder joined Birmingham Business School in September 2012. He is currently a Reader in Employment Relations, and Head of the Organisation, Work and Employment Group. Between 2019 and 2021, he was the University’s Director of Postgraduates (PGT).

Andy’s research examines contemporary employment relations in a range of contexts and can be split into three interrelated areas ...

Benjamin Hopkins is a senior lecturer in the Birmingham Business School with expertise in work and employment issues.  His recent research has investigated temporary and migrant work in food manufacturing, young people and voluntary work, wage inequality, and work in the public sector.  His current research investigates migrant work in the European Union and United States, the impacts ...

Paula Hyde is Professor of Organisation Studies at Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham and holds a visiting position at Macquarie University, New South Wales, Australia. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Paula is one of the leading figures in the field of organisation studies in health and social care both nationally and internationally. Her standing in the ...

Etlyn is a Professor in the Department of Management and is a member of the Organisations, Work and Employment Group.  Etlyn's research interests are in the field of employee diversity and organisational careers. Her research and publications focus both on how employees experience organisations as minorities as well as the analysis of organisational practices and structures designed to ...

Paul is a Political Economist interested in examining and understanding key features of contemporary capitalism. He has an undergraduate background in the natural sciences and the philosophy of science, a post-graduate training in political science and international relations, and professional experience as a management consultant.

Joanne Murphy is a Professor of Inclusive Leadership at Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham. Her research explores leadership and change in volatile environments. She has worked extensively with business, government, not for profits and police and security organisations to build leadership capacity and manage change. Professor Murphy’s latest book - ‘Management and ...

Dr Margarita Nyfoudi is an Associate Professor of Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour. Her current research focuses on working conditions during crisis, workplace learning, coaching, and direct employee voice. She is predominantly interested in the individual, team level and cross-level characteristics that influence the effectiveness of core management processes. She has a ...

Nick is a Professor of Accounting and Corporate Reporting whose research focuses on how extensions and innovations in the corporate reporting model are shaped, constructed and implemented. Through publications, funding, and collaborations with regulators, practitioners and firms, Nick is an active researcher in the fields of sustainability reporting, digital reporting (using iXBRL/XBRL) and ...

Mark Saunders is Professor of Business Research Methods at the Business School. He currently holds visiting professorships at the Universities of Pretoria (South Africa), Mälardalan (Sweden), Surrey and Worcester. He was awarded a fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences in recognition of his contribution to methods and human resource management research and social science researcher ...

W Stanley Siebert is Professor of Labour Economics at the Business School, where he has worked since 1980. He gained his PhD at the London School of Economics. He has published widely in the major economics and industrial relations journals including the Academy of Management Journal, British Journal of Industrial Relations,  Industrial & Labor Relations Review, Management ...

Scott Taylor has worked at Open, Essex, Exeter, and Loughborough universities. He worked at Birmingham from 2002-07, then rejoined in 2013. He has visited and taught at the universities of Auckland, Delhi, GFV-EAESP Sao Paolo, Jeddah, Melbourne and Lapland. Scott is currently Development Editor for the Journal of Business Ethics, and an editorial board member for Academy of Management ...

Daniel Wheatley is Reader in the Department of Management. He is the Director of Postgraduate Taught Programmes in Birmingham Business School, having previously acted as Director of Undergraduate Programmes (2018-2021). His research focuses on workplace well-being including job quality, work-life balance and flexible working arrangements, spatial dimensions of work including work-related travel, ...

Daniel Wintersberger joined Birmingham Business School as a teaching fellow in 2014 and became a lecturer in 2018. Before joining the school, he held teaching posts at Cardiff and Swansea University and worked as a pay and reward specialist with the British Airline Pilots’ Association. 

Daniel's doctoral research (funded by the International Transport Workers’ Federation ...

Dr Mengyi Xu is an Assistant Professor of Human Resource Management and Director of Full-time MBA at Birmingham Business School. Her current research focuses on work-life balance (WLB) and inclusion, boundary management, the future of work (e.g. flexible working) and sustainable career. She is particularly interested in understanding work-life inclusion and its interplay with sustainable ...

Dr Fuk Ying Tse (Ying) joined the University of Birmingham as Assistant Professor in Organisation, Work and Employment in January 2023. Her research broadly covers employment relations and the sociology of work, especially in the areas of reward management, job quality, and equality, diversity and inclusion. Prior to her PhD, she worked as a labour policy researcher in a non-governmental ...