Research news

Discover our recent publications, conference presentations, grants and projects.

PUBLICATIONS

2021

• Beauregard, T. A., Booth, J. E., & Whiley, L. A. (2021). Transgender employees: Workplace impacts on health and well-being. In J. Hassard & L. D. Torres (Eds.), Aligning perspectives in gender mainstreaming: Gender, health, safety and wellbeing.
• Hwang, S., & Beauregard, T. A. (2021). Contextualising intersectionality: A qualitative study of East Asian female migrant workers in the UK. Human Relations.
• Whiley, L. A. (2021) What can critical femininity offer reviewing? A case for reviewing with empathy. Gender, Work & Organization, ISSN (print) 0968-6673 (Epub Ahead of Print).

2020

• Adisa, T.A, Mordi, C., Simpson, R., & Iwowo, V. (2020, online first). Social dominance, hyper-masculinity and career barriers in Nigeria. Gender, Work and Organization.
• Au, W., Chatrakul Na Ayudhya, U., Soon, Y., & Ahmed, P.K. (2020). The work-life experiences of an invisible workforce: The case of live-in women migrant domestic workers in Malaysia. Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: An International Journal.
• Beauregard, T. A., Adamson, M., Kunter, A., Miles, L., & Roper, I. (2020). Diversity in the work-life interface: Introduction to the Special Issue. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal.
• Evans, S., Whiting, R., & Mackenzie Davey, K. (2020, online first). Struggles for distinction: Classing as discursive process in UK museum work. Gender, Work and Organization.
• Lawton Smith, H., Henry, C., Etzkowitz, H., & Poulovassilis, A. (Eds.) (2020). New Perspectives in Gender, Science & Innovation. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
• Owalla, B., Vorley, T., Coogan, T., Lawton Smith, H., & Wing, K. (2020). Absent or overlooked? Promoting diversity among entrepreneurs with public support needs. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing.
• Vorley, T., Lawton Smith, H., Coogan, T., Owalla, B., & Wing, K. (2020). Supporting Diversity and Inclusion in Innovation. An Innovation Caucus report. Swindon: UK Research and Innovation.
• Whiley, L. A., Sayer, H. and Juanchich, M. (2020) Motherhood and guilt in a pandemic : negotiating the 'new' normal with a feminist identity. Gender, Work & Organization, ISSN (print) 0968-6673 (Epub Ahead of Print).
• Whiley, L. A., Stutterheim, S. and Grandy, G. (2020) Breastfeeding, 'tainted' love, and femmephobia : containing the 'dirty' performances of embodied femininity. Psychology and Sexuality, ISSN (print) 1941-9899 (Epub Ahead of Print).

2019

• Adisa, T.A., Cooke, F.L., & Iwowo, V. (2019). Mind your attitude: The impact of patriarchy on women’s workplace behaviour. Career Development International.
• Barnes, C., Lewis, R., Yarker, J., & Arevshatian, L. (2019). Women directors on FTSE company boards: An exploration of the factors influencing their appointment. Cogent Psychology.
• Beauregard, T. A., & King, K. A. (2019). “Bring in Your Parents Day”: Building inclusion and engagement through a cross-generational family-friendly workplace initiative. Strategic HR Review. 
• Chatrakul Na Ayudhya, U., Prouska, R., & Beauregard, T.A. (2019). The impact of global economic crisis and austerity on quality of working life and work-life balance: A capabilities perspective. European Management Review. (Winner of the 2019 European Management Review Best Paper Award)

Conference presentations

• Drury, L. & Fasbender, U. (2020, June). Intergenerational co-worker harmony: How positive contact attenuates workplace conflict via reduced age discrimination. Paper presented at the Institute of Work Psychology International Conference, Sheffield, UK.
• Drury, L. & Fasbender, U. (2019, November). Work beside me and by my friend: Understanding organizational outcomes of intergenerational workplace friendship. Paper presented at the Age in the Workplace Small Group Meeting, University of St Gallen, Switzerland.
• Drury, L. Swift, H.J., Palmer, S., & Abrams, D. (2019, May). The influence of positive and negative intergroup contact between social care providers and recipients on psychological and organisational outcomes. Paper presented at the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology Conference, Working for the Greater Good, Turin, Italy.
• Wright, A., Whiley, L.A., and Sutterheim, S. (2021, July). Menopause as 'dirty' femininity: Femmephobia, but with pockets of resistance. Paper presented at the Gender, Work and Organization Virtual Conference, Canterbury, UK.

Funding

• Lai, Y. & Thorpe, A. Barriers that hinder female staff in higher education institutions (HEIs) from taking a full maternity entitlement: A social psychological perspective.
  • (2019) Athena Swan Research Grant, University of Portsmouth (£3,500).
  • (2020) BEI School Research Grant, Birkbeck, University of London (£3,000).
• Lawton-Smith, H. (2020). Addressing regional inequalities in innovation opportunities for BAME and disabled groups. Regional Studies Association FeRSA Award (£7,368).
• Lawton-Smith, H. (2019). Promoting the participation of people with disabilities and people from BAME communities in business innovation. ESRC/Innovate UK Innovation Caucus (£4,000).
• Whiting, R. (2019). “We have to buy my space shirts in the boys’ section!” A business ethics approach to undoing gender in gendered toy marketing. The British Academy (£9,060).