Group members

Professor Shireen Kanji My research addresses inequalities in workplaces, in homes and their many interconnections. I am an expert in how inequalities relate to demographic issues. Much of my research is situated where gender, work and social inequality intersect. My previous research has analysed gender inequality in organisations, working hours of men and women, the work-family interface, performance appraisal, career choices, self-employment and wellbeing. Parents’ experiences at work. My research has examined, firstly, women’s participation and exit from work. Secondly, male breadwinners' working hours preferences and actual hours of work. Thirdly, the impact that the care grandparents provide to grandchildren has on the labour force participation of mothers in the UK. I have analysed how becoming a parent or partner differentially affects the transitions of men and women to self-employment and business ownership. Occupations. I have studied the occupational aspirations of younger workers in relation to the gender mix of occupations and gendered self-concepts in mathematics, the long-lasting impact of precarious work on the wellbeing of younger workers in Germany. Research on occupations and inequality is based on women scientists in the pharmaceutical industry in Switzerland and women’s changing occupational status in China (conducted for the Asian Development Bank). Current research: Working hours and paid work participation of older men and women in Europe. The experiences of women bankers in Bangladesh. Young people's transitions from school to work in developing countries. My work has been widely reported in national and international media in The FInancial Times, The Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Wirtschaftswoche, Time Magazine, The Daily Express, ITV News and BBC News. I have appearedtwice on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour and on the BBC World Service. I have undertaken consultancy work for international organisations. For example I was involved in an OECD project on how the school to work transition in Switzerland is gendered, an Asian Development Bank research project on women’s changing occupational status in China and several DFID projects on poverty in Russia. I have also undertaken consultancy work for private organisations including Starling Bank. I am a Council Member of the British Society for Population Studies and serve on one of the ESRC Grant Assessment Panels. I have served as an evaluation member panel for the Portuguese and Swedish Social Research Councils. I was a member of the editorial team of Work, Employment and Society from 2010-2013. I am currently on the Editorial Board of Industrial Relations Journal. I joined Brunel Business School in 2019, having previously held posts at the University of Birmingham, University of Leicester, Basel University and the University of Cambridge. I have taught courses on Leadership, Human Resource Management, Statistical Modelling, Research Methods, International Human Resource Management, the Sociology of the Family and Gender and Employment. At Brunel I have designed and tuaght a module on ethics, power and inequality in artificial intelligence in Brunel's new Masters in AI Strategy. Prior to working in academia, I had a career in international finance I am currently teaching the following courses: MG3018 Gender in Organisations MG2063 Critical Perspectives on Management MSc in Artificial Intelligence Ethics, Power and Inclusion in AI HRM for small and medium sized businesses

Dr Chima Mordi Dr Chima Mordi is a Reader in Human Resource Management and Employment Relations. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. As a trained lawyer, Chima’s experiences have helped shape and influence his doctoral and post-doctoral research interests. He focuses on the social nature of labour problems in Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East and Asia and their implications for the variable efficacy of Western management theories and practices. His primary research interests also lie in workload and work-life balance, work-life interface, flexible working arrangements, Employee voice and contemporary Employment relations in Sub-Saharan Africa. Chima has authored over 100 articles in refereed academic journals, practitioner outlets, international conference proceedings, and books. His recent papers have appeared in various outlets, including Work Employment and Society, Gender, Work & Organization, Journal of Managerial Psychology, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Thunderbird International Business Review, Personnel Review, Employee Relations and Career Development International Journal. He is also the co-editor of several forthcoming edited volumes of Managing HRM in Africa (Palgrave Macmillan), Employment Relations and Trade Unions in Africa (Palgrave Macmillan), Employee Voice in the Global North (Palgrave Macmillan), Employee Voice in the Global South (Palgrave Macmillan). In addition, Chima has received several awards for outstanding contributions to teaching and research (best tutor and supervisor-Brunel University and recipient of the Emerald Literati Network awards for excellence). He has supervised over 30 doctoral students. The state of employee relations in sub-Saharan Africa Workload and work-life balance Employee involvement / voice in sub-Saharan Africa International human resource management HRM, organization studies, managing in emerging economies International business and SMEs in emerging markets Human resource management; International and comparative human resource management; Employment relations; International Business Strategy

Dr Rachel Morgan Rachel (Beth) Morgan is a Senior Lecturer in HRM-OB. Beth completed her PhD in Management at Brunel Business School, Brunel University of London which looked at how those in tainted occupations manage disrespect. She has worked on a number of research projects broadly in the areas of gender, class, well-being and work. Proceeding her PhD, Beth has collaborated with London councils with the aim to improve relations between members of the public and waste management workers. She has also worked as a research fellow in Gendered Excellence. More recently, Beth has been collaborating with colleagues on a research project aiming to co-create an action plan with key stakeholders to facilitate community well-being in the North Kensington community after the Grenfell fire. Additionally, she is working on producing a social class audit for FTSE 100 organisations, to promote social mobility and inclusion across the UK. Furthermore, she is leading a project exploring how class and gender impact mental health disclosure at work, with NHS wales as a project partner. Beth has published articles in ABS 4* journals. In addition, she has been teaching on a variety of modules at Brunel Business School in HRM-OB. Identity and subjectivity Inequalities at work Class and gender in organisations Dirty work Modules Taught on: Organisational Behaviour and Analysis (Current) Diversity Management in Organisations (Current) Understanding Business and Management Research (Current) Business Ethics Critical Perspectives in Management Gender in Organisations Principles and Practices of Marketing Office Hours: Monday 13.00 - 14.00, Thursday 12.00 - 13.00 Please e-mail in advance to book an appointment

Dr Emeka Oruh Dr Emeka Smart Oruh is a Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management (HRM) and Organisational Behaviour (OB), and the Post Graduate (PGT) Deputy Admission Director at Brunel University London, UK, where he obtained a PhD in Employment Relations (ER) and Human Resource Management (HRM) in 2017. Before now, he lectured at the University of Portsmouth School of Business and Law, UK between 2018 and 2020. His key research examines OB, ER and HRM issues within international business – particularly in emerging and developing markets. Dr Emeka (Smart) has authored several publications – some of which have appeared in highly rated international journals such as Human Relations, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Journal of Managerial Psychology, International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Marketing Theory, Management Decision, European Management Journal, Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance, and Employee Relations journal among others including Edited Books and Book Chapters. ​

Professor Mustafa Ozbilgin Mustafa F. Özbilgin is a Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Brunel Business School, London. His research focuses on workplace equality, diversity and inclusion from comparative and relational perspectives. He has conducted field studies in the UK and internationally. Supported by international and national grants from the ESRC, EPSRC, EU Horizon2020, CIPD, ACE, ACCA, and British Academy. he studied changing policies and practices of workplace equality, diversity and inclusion. He is an engaged scholar, driven by values of workplace democracy, equality for all, and humanisation of work. He has authored and edited more than 20 books and published over 200 papers in academic journals such as the British Medical Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Learning and Education, Journal of Management Studies, British Journal of Management, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Human Resource Management, Human Relations, Gender Work and Organization, and Social Science and Medicine, among others. He has conducted research, consultancy and training at a large number of organisations, including the House of Commons, Barclays Bank, The Bank West Australia, Google, Halifax, the CIPD, the National Health Service, the NHS Employers, L'Oreal, Tesco, the Probation Services, The UK Fire Service, the Economist Research Unit, the OECD, the WRVS, DTI, Rio Tinto, PwC, Linklaters and ACCA. He served as the editor-in-chief of the journal, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: an international journal (Emerald Press) between 2006 and 2010. He served as the editor-in-chief of the European Management Review (EMR), the official journal of the European Academy of Management (EURAM), from 2014 to 2018 and as the editor-in-chief of the British Journal of Management, the official journal of the British Academy of Management, for four years from 2010 to 2014. He is currently serving on the editorial boards of over 20 journals internationally. He currently holds the following editorial roles: Book Series Editor: Equality Diversity and Inclusion: international perspectives (Emerald Press) Associate editor: Frontiers in Psychology Frontiers in Sociology Member of the Editorial Board: Academy of Management Learning and Education (AMLE) British Journal of Management Journal of Management Studies Equality Diversity and Inclusion: an International Journal (Emerald Press) He is the founder of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: an international conference (EDI). The EDI conference was established in 2008 and has travelled to 14 different countries to date across four continents: www.edi-conference.org Mustafa Ozbilgin is a member of the Reform Club: Mustafa Ozbilgin is also on: LinkedIn: Twitter: Scholar citation: My research interests are on equality, diversity and inclusion at work from international and comparative perspectives, drawing mainly on sociology theory. In particular, I am interested in engaged scholarship that can support the development of theory and practices that promote equality, diversity, inclusion and human rights across public, private and voluntary sector organisations in Britain and internationally. Global diversity management Comparative employment relations Social and organisational change Discrimination at work International perspectives on equality at work Intersecting inequalities at work Academic labour process Global Diversity Management Qualitative Research Methods; International Human Resource Management Responsible Leadership Consultation and feedback sessions (please email me to make sure spaces are available): Wednesday 14:00-16:00 hrs

Dr Marios Samdanis Dr Marios Samdanis is a Senior Lecturer in Strategy, Entrepreneurship and International Management. Prior to joining Brunel, he was a Lecturer in Digital Creativity and New Media Management at Birkbeck College, University of London, and a Lecturer in Art Business at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London. He has a PhD in Management from Kent Business School, University of Kent, and a Master degree in Innovation Management and Technology Policy from Birkbeck College. His research has been published in journals such as International Journal of Management Reviews, International Business Review, Journal of Business Research, European Management Review, Information and Organization and International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. He is active reviewer for a wide range of journals in the areas of innovation and entrepreneurship. Dr Samdanis’s research interests focus on innovation and entrepreneurship in the creative industries, and in particular in contemporary visual arts, architecture and design drawing mainly on organisational theory. He is also interested in studying leadership, creativity and diversity in the domains of technology and culture. Innovation in art, design and technology Leadership and diversity management New institutionalism and sociomateriality Technology, cultural and social entrepreneurship MG5621 Creativity, Entrepreneurship and Innovation (Module Leader) MG2607 Creativity, Innovation and Leadership (Module Leader) Consultation and Feedback Sessions: Wednesdays and Fridays 1-2pm

Dr Didem Taser-Erdogan Dr Didem Taser Erdogan is a lecturer in Human Resources Management (HRM) and Organisational Behaviour (OB). She has received her PhD degree from King's Business School. Didem holds an MSc degree from London School of Economics and a BA degree from Bilkent University, Turkey. Her research interests include gender and organisations, diversity and inclusion, work-life balance and flexible working. Didem has experiences of teaching core HRM and OB topics to both undergraduate and postgraduate students, including recruitment and selection, teamwork, work motivation, and cross cultural management. Her research interests are mainly related to gender and organisations and work-life balance issues. Specifically, she is interested in individuals careers and the factors that influence its impact on individual work attitudes and behaviours. Using a qualitative design, her research investigated women's limited representation at senior management through the interplay between macro, meso and micro level issues which in turn impacted women's career aspirations. Gender and organisations Diversity management Work-life balance Flexible working MG5617 HRM in Context: Resourcing, Performance and Assessment MG 3611 Contemporary HRM in Context: Resourcing, Performance and Assessment

Dr Selcuk Uygur Dr. Selcuk Uygur is a Senior Lecturer in Business Ethics. He has received his PhD degree from Brunel Business School on management researches. Selcuk holds an MBA degree from Baskent University and a BA degree from Inonu University, Turkey. His research interests include work ethic, business ethics and social responsibility, the influence of religion in business, diversity management. He is a reviewer for the Journal of Business Ethics, Gender Work and Organization, International Journal of Human Resource Management. Selcuk is acting as a member of Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour (HRM-OB) research group at Brunel Business School. He has been a member of the European Business Ethics Network (EBEN) since 2007, and an Academic Member of CIPD since 2018. He is the Director of Teaching and Learning at BBS since 2019. Work ethic Corporate social responsibility Diversity management Religion and business ethics Research group(s) Human Resource Management and Organization Behaviour Research Group (HRMOB) MG3113 Business Ethics, Environmental Sustainability and, Governance; MG3119 Issues & Controversies in Management Project; MG5510 Dissertation

Dr Raffaella Valsecchi Dr Raffaella Valsecchi is Reader (Associate Professor) in Human Resource Management/ Organisational Behaviour at Brunel Business School. Prior to join Brunel University, she held posts at Greenwich Business School, Royal Holloway- University of London and the University of Leicester. She completed her PhD in Sociology of Work at the University of Leicester, funded by the ESRC. Raffaella’s research focuses on the management of health and wellbeing at work, the impact of technology on the labour process in health organisations, community wellbeing, students’ experience and health and wellbeing and, flexible working. She has been working in multidisciplinary research projects funded by the ESRC, British Academy/ Leverhulme Trust, Brunel University London Knowledge Transfer Grant, Research Catalyst Fund. She has published in well-known international journals, such as Work, Employment and Society, New Technology and Employment, Technology Forecasting and Social Change, Economic and Industrial Democracy and Employee Relations. She has served in the Editorial Board for the journal European Management Review (2017-2022) and acted as reviewer at the European Academy of Management (EURAM) conference. She an active member of the International Labour Process Conference and, organised and supported a series of conference stream. She is member of European Group for Organisational Studies (EGOS) and she regularly presents papers at EGOS colloquium. She acts as reviewer for the academic journals: New Technology Work and Employment, Gender, Work and Organization and Technology Forecasting and Social Change and, has been nominated as a reviewer for ESRC projects. Recently, she has served as guest editor for the Journal Frontiers in Sociology creating the special issue ‘Re-building and re-inventing workplaces’. Raffaella held numerous successful academic leadership positions, examples of those are Director of PGT programmes, Director of Work Placements, Programme Leader for the MSc HRM and Director of Undergraduate programmes, making substantial positive impact in academic programmes and students’ experience. Her role as Director of PGT programmes was crucial during the recent pandemic and COVID-19 aftermath, where she promptly led and implemented the necessary Teaching & Learning changes, managing a PGT students’ cohort which doubled its intake (800 PGT students- 10 PGT programmes). She has played an important role in key successful accreditations, such as the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), and the Chartered Institute of Professional Development (CIPD). She is now assisting Brunel University’s organisational change by supporting a series of strategic workshops and mentoring colleagues in leadership positions from BBS other Departments. Raffaella is Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Professional Development (CIPD). She also acted as CIPD Director during her position of Programme Leader of the MSc HRM programme, supporting a series of engagement activities with her MSc students and the CIPD. She is passionate in disseminating her research among her students and, since 2018, she has organised a series of seminars and workshops on managing health and wellbeing at work with Occupational Health professionals, the last two focused of managing employees during the pandemic and the COVID-19 aftermath. She holds a position of external examiner at Bayes Business School and Henley Business School. She supported and attended two internationalisation/student engagement activities between the MBA Programmes at BBS and University of Bicocca Milan. She was nominated for ‘Best Final Year Project tutor’ (UG students’ nomination -2014); ‘Ken Darby-Dowman memorial prize’ (2020-21); ‘Collaborate & Collegiate working’ (College nomination 2021-2022). The management of health and well-being at work The impact of technology on the labour process in health organisations Tele-health Community Wellbeing Flexible working Dissertation, Research Methods, HRM, Organisational Behaviour/Leadership.

Professor Joana Vassilopoulou Dr Vassilopoulou is a Professor in EDI & HRM and the Divisional Lead of the Organisations and People Department at Brunel Business School, Brunel University London. Her research focuses on equality, diversity & inclusion, gender, migration, AI & diversity and precarious work from a critical and international comparative perspective. She has been part of grants in the field of diversity and inclusion with a total value of over £2.5 million, such as for the OECD, the European Academy of Management (EURAM), EU Horizon2020 and EU Erasmus+. She is the Co-Founder of the Centre for Inclusion at Work (CEFI), in Athens, Greece: Joana Vassilopoulou has an established academic and professional record in the field of diversity and inclusion, is frequently invited to deliver talks and has organised and hosted the international Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) conference twice. Joana was an editor at the Work, Employment and Society (WES) Journal from 2020 to 2024 and from 2015 to 2020, she served as an Associate Editor of the European Management Review (EMR). She was a board member of the European Academy of Management (EURAM) and the UK National Representative of EURAM. She has published over 50 publications in edited collections and journals such as Human Resource Management Journal, Work, Employment and Society, European Journal of Industrial Relations, International Business Review and the International Journal of Human Resource Management. She is an associated faculty member at the Erasmus Centre for Women and Organisations, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Rotterdam/Netherlands, and she has held visiting Professorships at Dauphine University, Paris /France, MCI Innsbruck (Austria), and the University of Wuppertal (Germany). Dr Vassilopoulou is the recipient of a visiting scholarship at Sydney University’s business school (2017), the winner of the Transnational Best Paper Award at the American Academy of Management conference (2012), and the recipient of the University of East Anglia’s Norwich Business School Diversity and Equality in Careers and Employment Research PhD scholarship (2007-2010). She has a PhD from Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia and her Social Science/Sociology degree from the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Equality, diversity & inclusion, gender, migration, AI & diversity and precarious work, from a critical and international comparative perspective. Research group(s) Human Resource Management and Organization Behaviour Research Group (HRMOB) Dr Vassilopoulou's research focuses on equality, diversity & inclusion, gender, migration, AI & diversity and precarious work, from a critical and international comparative perspective.. MG3018 Gender in Organisations MB5527 Leading People and Managing Organisations

Dr Ning Wu Ning is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in OB/HRM at Brunel Business School. Ning started her higher education career as a university lecturer in Economics in Peking University China, then conducted research in Labour Economics at Oxford University as a senior member. Before joining Brunel Business School, Ning held a lecturer post in HRM at Nottingham Business School. High-performance work practices: antecedents and impact on performance Employment relations in the private sector and firm size effect Flexible/Agile working, employee wellbeing, and job performance Inequalities associated with age in workplaces Leadership, employee engagement, psychological capital, and labour turnover Managing Change and Creativity in Organisations MBA Leadership Master Class Quantitative Research Methods in HRM UG Final Year Projects Office hours in Term 1 for non-FYP (on-campus/Teams appointment- to book by email): Monday: 11:30-12:30 Thursday: 11:30-12:30 Office hours for FYP groups in Term 1 (on-campus/Teams appointment- to book by email): Monday: Sem 1- 12:30-13:30 Sem 2- 13:30-14:30 Sem 5- 14:30-15:30 Sem 6- 15:30-16:30

Professor Francesco Moscone Francesco Moscone leads the area of Healthcare Management and Wellbeing at BBS, where his research concentrates on sustainable health expenditure, exploring potential savings from both demand and supply perspectives. On the demand side, he examines scenarios such as potential savings if the smoking population transitions to reduced-risk products like vaping, if heavy drinkers shift to moderate drinking, and if individuals become more physically active. On the supply side, his research explores questions such as the productivity gains in hospitals if physicians adopt more cost-effective medical technologies. Francesco is Professor of Business Economics, former Division Lead for Organisations and People, former head of the Centre of Research into Entrepreneurship, International Business in Emerging Markets, former Director of the MBA programs, and former Director of Internationalisation. He also teaches policy evaluation at the University Ca' Foscari University of Venice. He has previously worked at the University of Leicester, University of Cambridge, London School of Economics (LSE), University of Bergamo, and the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart Rome. He has held visiting scholar positions at University of California-Berkeley, University Pompeu Fabra, and LSE. He has worked as health economist for the National Collaborating Centre for Women and Children's Health, and the National Agency for Regional Health Services. Francesco has been co-investigator of a major EPSRC (UK government funding) grant entitled "Semantic Credit Risk Assessment of Business Ecosystems". He has also been the principal investigator on an ESRC (UK government funding) research grant entitled "Statistical Modelling of Interdependence in Economics", and on the UK part of a major EU grant entitled "Biopool- Services associated to digitalise contents of tissues in Biobanks across Europe". Further, he has acted as co-investigator for the grant "Economic Performance and Quality of Life in European Cities" awarded by the Economics Education and Research Consortium. Francesco has served as associate editor for Economic Modelling and he is currently associate editor for the journal Empirical Economics and a Senior Member of ESRC Peer Review College. Francesco is also a co-editor, with Professor Badi H. Baltagi, of Contributions to Economic Analysis, Emerald Publishing. Here you can follow Francesco on LinkedIn and X (better known as Twitter) Francesco Moscone (@MosconeF) / X Francesco Moscone's research focuses on sustainable health expenditure, investigating possible savings from both demand and supply perspectives. Regarding the demand side, he explores scenarios like potential savings if the smoking population transitions to reduced-risk products like vaping, if heavy drinkers shift to moderate drinking, and if individuals become more physically active. On the supply side, his research delves into questions such as the potential productivity gains in hospitals when physicians adopt more cost-effective medical technologies. The fact remains that anything we do in life will never be entirely risk-free. However, what we can strive for is risk reduction. Transitioning from excessive alcohol intake (defined as consuming, on average, more than half a liter of wine a day) to moderate drinking may not eliminate the risk of certain liver-related diseases, but it can significantly reduce those risks. Similarly, the well-known fact that tobacco consumption claims millions of lives worldwide each year emphasises the potential life-saving impact of adults switching to reduced-risk products like vaping. Moreover, a sedentary lifestyle, spending most of the day on the sofa, is detrimental to health and increases the likelihood of developing numerous chronic pathologies. Engaging in physical exercise is recommended to counteract these risks. Interestingly, transitioning toward various reduced-risk behaviors not only saves lives but also proves to be financially advantageous. My recent published work demonstrates that in Italy, we could save over one billion euros annually in the National Health Services by promoting physical exercise, reducing wine consumption, and encouraging the switch to e-cigarettes and heated tobacco.Furthermore, another scientific study of mine revealed that if half of the smokers in England transitioned to vaping, the NHS could save more than a billion pounds each year. This presents a unique opportunity in the public health sector to free up resources, which could be reinvested to revitalise the healthcare system. Such a strategy offers an alternative approach to making the NHS more resilient against shocks like Covid-19 and addressing urgent health issues such as rising waiting times. I've also been exploring healthcare system sustainability from the supply side. My research delves into the connection between hospital quality and health expenditure. It's uncertain whether augmenting health resources, such as having more physicians, will invariably enhance people's health. Conversely, increased spending might increase mortality rates in cases of inefficiency. Recent findings underscore the significance of adopting medical technologies, like increasing the use of aspirins, beta blockers, and statins for patients with cardiovascular issues, to potentially save more lives. These research areas cover a broad spectrum of health economics and healthcare management, offering valuable insights into the financial aspects of healthcare and social care systems. In these fields I contribute to evidence-based policymaking and the development of efficient and sustainable healthcare systems Feel free to reach out if you're interested in learning more about my research. Research group(s) Strategy Entrepreneurship and International Business (SEIB) Healthcare Policy; Business Economics; Analytical Skills; Quantitative Methods in Business and Management Office hours: Tuesday 5-6pm and Thursday 11am-12

Dr Lefteris Kretsos Dr Lefteris Kretsos is a Senior Lecturer in Business and Management. Prior to joining Brunel University London he was a Senior Lecturer in HRM at University of Greenwich, Greenwich Business School, a Research Fellow at Coventry University, Coventry Business School and a Lecturer in Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen Business School. His achievements were acknowledged by City University of London through the distinguished honor of an Honorary Senior Lectureship. His research activity focused on the study of precarious work especially among young and cultural workers. He is currently working in the intersection of political economy and employment relations focusing on how AI, Public Policy and Management interventions result in certain outcomes, processes and strategies. Lefteris has been published in leading academic presses and in world-class journals such as Work, Employment and Society, Work and Occupations, Industrial Relations Journal, Industrial Law Journal. His research has also been funded by various organisations and streams including the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the European Research Council (ERC awards). In addition, Lefteris has been on a range of editorial boards and committees, he has proposed legislation and holds proven record in policy making and analysis in government and intergovernmental organisations (for example European Commission, ILO, OECD, Unesco). From March 2015 to July 2019 Lefteris served as a Cabinet Minister and as General Secretary responsible for Digital and Media Policy in Greece. During his tenure he initiated the restructuring of public policy organisations and championed policies for making Greece a global film friendly location. He is currently teaching Research Methods in Business and Management, International Human Resource Management for Undergraduate Students. He also teaches Leading People and Managing Organisations for MBA Students. Lefteris is also the Programme Leader for the PhD Programme with Ahlia University in Bahrain. My research has addressed the nature of change in a variety of work organisations, how this has impacted on employees, and how industrial relations processes shape the nature of outcomes of organisational and labour market restructuring. An on-going research interest concerned changes in working time patterns and employees’ experience of precarious work. I am currently working in the intersection of political economy and employment relations. I situate organizational and social related problems in a policy context examining how AI, public policy and Management interventions results in certain outcomes, processes and strategies. To date I have participated in 15 international research projects funded by a number of important institutions, such as the European Commission and the European Research Council, the Economic and Social Research Council, the European Regional Development Fund, the European Foundation for the Improvement of Working and Living Conditions. Digitalisation and the Future of Work, Public Policy for the Creative Industries, Working Time Changes. MG2610 Research Methods MG2133 Human Resource Management and its International Dimensions MB5527 Leading People and Managing Organizations (MBA) Undergraduate and Postgraduate dissertation supervision and marking I am also Programme Leader for the PhD (Without Residence Programme). Office hours: Students can make an appointment to meet me by either using the following link by simply sending me an email.

Professor Shireen Kanji My research addresses inequalities in workplaces, in homes and their many interconnections. I am an expert in how inequalities relate to demographic issues. Much of my research is situated where gender, work and social inequality intersect. My previous research has analysed gender inequality in organisations, working hours of men and women, the work-family interface, performance appraisal, career choices, self-employment and wellbeing. Parents’ experiences at work. My research has examined, firstly, women’s participation and exit from work. Secondly, male breadwinners' working hours preferences and actual hours of work. Thirdly, the impact that the care grandparents provide to grandchildren has on the labour force participation of mothers in the UK. I have analysed how becoming a parent or partner differentially affects the transitions of men and women to self-employment and business ownership. Occupations. I have studied the occupational aspirations of younger workers in relation to the gender mix of occupations and gendered self-concepts in mathematics, the long-lasting impact of precarious work on the wellbeing of younger workers in Germany. Research on occupations and inequality is based on women scientists in the pharmaceutical industry in Switzerland and women’s changing occupational status in China (conducted for the Asian Development Bank). Current research: Working hours and paid work participation of older men and women in Europe. The experiences of women bankers in Bangladesh. Young people's transitions from school to work in developing countries. My work has been widely reported in national and international media in The FInancial Times, The Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Wirtschaftswoche, Time Magazine, The Daily Express, ITV News and BBC News. I have appearedtwice on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour and on the BBC World Service. I have undertaken consultancy work for international organisations. For example I was involved in an OECD project on how the school to work transition in Switzerland is gendered, an Asian Development Bank research project on women’s changing occupational status in China and several DFID projects on poverty in Russia. I have also undertaken consultancy work for private organisations including Starling Bank. I am a Council Member of the British Society for Population Studies and serve on one of the ESRC Grant Assessment Panels. I have served as an evaluation member panel for the Portuguese and Swedish Social Research Councils. I was a member of the editorial team of Work, Employment and Society from 2010-2013. I am currently on the Editorial Board of Industrial Relations Journal. I joined Brunel Business School in 2019, having previously held posts at the University of Birmingham, University of Leicester, Basel University and the University of Cambridge. I have taught courses on Leadership, Human Resource Management, Statistical Modelling, Research Methods, International Human Resource Management, the Sociology of the Family and Gender and Employment. At Brunel I have designed and tuaght a module on ethics, power and inequality in artificial intelligence in Brunel's new Masters in AI Strategy. Prior to working in academia, I had a career in international finance I am currently teaching the following courses: MG3018 Gender in Organisations MG2063 Critical Perspectives on Management MSc in Artificial Intelligence Ethics, Power and Inclusion in AI HRM for small and medium sized businesses