Group members

Professor Shireen Kanji My research focus is on inequality in the workplace and in the home and how inequalities relate to demographic issues. I am particularly interested in gender inequality in organisations, working hours of men and women, the work-family interface, performance appraisal, career choices, and wellbeing. My research is situated where gender, work and social inequality intersect. 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. 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. The differential positioning of men and women in self-employment. The exploration of the working hours and paid work participation of older men and women in Europe. The mental load of organising work and care. 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 am a Council Member of the British Society for Population Studies 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 and Gender and Employment. I 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

Professor Ashley Braganza Professor Ashley Braganza is Professor of Organisational Transformation Change at Brunel Business School. He is teaching on Undergraduate and Postgraduate taught programmes. His research interests encompass big data, change management, strategy implementation, process and knowledge management, and transformation enabled information systems. He has published over 100 papers in prestigious academic and practitioner journals and three books. He has carried out over 50 consultancy assignments with large global organisations. He has held several senior leadership positions in academic institutions as well as serving on the governing bodies of schools and small and medium-sized enterprises. His past collaborations with practitioners from BT, Microsoft, McDonald's, Astra Zeneca, Friends Provident, Volkswagen Financial Services and the Department for Children, Schools and Families and academics have co-created knowledge and practical ways of successfully implementing complex change programmes. He completed a study of CEOs and CIOs to gain fresh insights into the role of CEOs in largescale transformation programmes. He has published three books and over a hundred research articles, conference papers and working papers covering a range of topics on big data, business processes, change management, process orientation, knowledge management, governance, and organisation structure. Prof Braganza's research interests encompass big data, change management, strategy implementation, process and knowledge management, and transformation enabled information systems. He has published over 100 papers in prestigious academic and practitioner journals and three books.

Professor Fiona Denney I am a Professor in Leadership and Business Education in the Organisations and People division in Brunel Business School and my focus is on human-centred leadership. My research interests are focused on hybrid management and compassionate leadership in organisations including universities and the not-for-profit and public sectors. I hold a BA / Leverhulme grant for a project investigating the role of hybrid managers in universities. I am always interested to hear from prospective doctoral students whose interests align with my research areas. In a career of over 20 years, I have been a business studies academic in the areas of marketing and general managment and leadership and I have held a number of central university positions. Between 2003 and 2019, I worked in academic staff and researcher development, including being the Assistant Director of the Graduate School at King’s College London and heading up the Brunel Educational Excellence Centre at Brunel University London until 2019. Both of these positions plus my national and international work for Vitae (see have involved me in strategic leadership and operational management including managing people, projects and resources, which now form my research interests in leadership. I served as a member of the Executive Committee of the UK Council for Graduate Education as well as the Honorary Secretary between 2017 and 2021. I am also a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA). I am currently an external examiner for the University of Lincoln's College of Social Science Research Degrees Board and have served as an external examiner in many other UK universities including UCL. I am also involved in providing consultancy work for Epigeum - a major developer of online training programmes for the higher education sector owned by Oxford University Press. I am a qualified and highly experienced executive coach and I coach senior executives in professional services industries as additional consultancy work. I teach MG3119 Issues and Controversies in Management Project - the final year project module for Business and Management students.

Professor Jane Hendy I am a Professor of Organisation Studies and the Dean of Brunel Business School. I joined the school in 2016, having previously held posts at Surrey Business School, Imperial College Business School, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and University College London. Before pursuing an academic career I was a senior manager, consultant and advocate in the public sector. I regularly act as an advisor to business leaders looking to innovate. I research, consult and co-ordinate on large policy initiatives for government, applying organisational theory to leadership and innovation, both nationally and internationally. I regularly sit on commissioning panels for national and international healthcare funding bodies. I do research that is impactful, publishing in top medical journals and 4 star Business School ranked outputs. During my work I have developed close links with the Cabinet Office and National and Local Government, providing consultancy on the development of policy-led initiatives for increasing innovation activity and system-access issues. Currently, I am researching Migrant's risk of communicable disease and their access to healthcare. Most recently, I am working on managing the risk of COVID-19 in BAME groups. My research has been given as written evidence to the House of Commons Select Committee, and featured in national and international press. I recently gave a presentation to Cabinet Office on I have led consortia on transformational change initiatives which include the world's largest trial of remote care, a ministerial led programme call the 'Whole System Demonstrator'; the £10m North West London Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research (CLAHRC), and the £7m Health and Care Infrastructure Research Innovation Centre (HaCIRIC). This work included evaluating the strategic planning and change management attached to new build hospitals in the USA, UK and Canada. Most recently, I was interested in policy-making and practice around migrant's access to healthcare interventions, and healthcare screening, and was awarded a grant of £398,000 from the National Institute of Health Research. More recently I have been awarded a grant of £371,000 from UKRI to investigate how to manage the risk of COVID-19 in BAME groups. I recently gave a cabinet office presentation on this topic, see

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. Human resource management; International and comparative human resource management; Employment relations; International Business Strategy

Dr Rachel Morgan Rachel (Beth) Morgan is a Lecturer in HRM-OB. Beth completed her PhD in Management at Brunel Business School, Brunel University 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 been collaborating on an impact case which has involved working 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. For the past 6 years, Beth has been teaching on a variety of modules at Brunel Business School in HRM-OB and Marketing. In addition to her teaching activities, she is currently working on a number of ABS 4* publications with esteemed scholars. Modules Taught on: Organisational Behaviour and Analysis (Current) Diversity Management in Organisations (Current) Business Ethics (Current) Critical Perspectives in Management Gender in Organisations Understanding Management Research Principles and Practices of Marketing Office Hours 21/22 Term 2: 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 International Journal of Human Resource Management, Journal of Managerial Psychology and Employee Relations journals among others. ​

Professor Mustafa Ozbilgin Mustafa F. Özbilgin is a Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Brunel Business School, London. He also holds two international positions: Co-Chaire Management et Diversité at Université Paris Dauphine and Visiting Professor of Management at Koç University in Istanbul. His research focuses on workplace equality, diversity and inclusion from comparative and relational perspectives. He has conducted field studies in the UK and internationally, and his work is empirically grounded. His research is supported by international and national grants from the ESRC, EPSRC, EU Horizon2020, CIPD, ACE, ACCA, and British Academy. His work focuses on changing policy and practice regarding workplace equality and diversity. 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 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 served as the editor-in-chief of the journal, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: an international journal (Emerald Press) between 2006 and 2010. 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 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, 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. MG5621 Creativity, Entrepreneurship and Innovation (Module Leader) MG5622 Digital Creativity and New Media Management (Module Leader) MG2607 Creativity, Innovation and Leadership (Module Leader) Consultation and Feedback Sessions: Wednesdays and Fridays 1-2pm

Dr Ace Simpson I am a member of the Oganizations and People Division within Brunel Business School and Research Advisor to the Center for Positive Organizations, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. Prior to joining Brunel I was Senior Lecturer in Organizational Behaviour at UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia. My primary area of research is compassion in organizations, which has relevance to Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour. My professional mission is to help create more compassionate workplaces where people feel understood, respected and supported by their coworkers - leading to greater employee satisfaction, fulfillment and wellbeing. I try to achieve this objective through my teaching, research and work with industry partners. I am co-author of the textbook titled Positive Organizational Behavior (Routledge, 2020). In addition to publishing research findings on organizational compassion I have also investigated topics such as humble leadership, power, love, management education, innovation and organizational paradoxes. My research has been published in top academic journals such as the Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management, British Journal of Management, and Journal of Business Ethics. My industry engagement has included working with an Australian health district with six hospitals and 14,000 staff to address bullying issues by enhancing their organizational compassion capabilities. To this end I have worked with colleagues to develop a measure of organizational compassion, the NEAR Organizational Compassion Scale. I have a keen interest in human well-being, flourishing and social justice, and my research is concerned with positive organizational practices such as humility, psychological safety, paradox transcendence, and love. My teaching activities are in the following areas: Postgraduate: MG5577 International and Comparative Human Resource Management - Module Leader Undergraduate: MG3119 Issues and Controversies in Management - Module Leader My office hours (by appointment) are: Thurs 12:30-2:30, Fri 12:30-1:30 pm. Students can make an appointment to meet me using the following link: Book time with Ace Simpson (Staff)

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. 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. 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). Dissertation, Research Methods, HRM, Organisational Behaviour/Leadership.

Dr Joana Vassilopoulou Dr Vassilopoulou is a Reader (Associate Professor) in 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. Currently, Joana is an editor at Work, Employment and Society (WES) Journal. From 2015 to 2020, she served as an Associate Editor of the European Management Review (EMR) and 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 held visiting Professorship at Dauphine University, Paris /France, at MCI Innsbruck (Austria) and at 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 in Management 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) 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. 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

Dr Michael Koch Dr Michael Koch is Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management & Organisational Behaviour at Brunel Business School, Brunel University London. Dr Koch’s research focuses on the antecedents and consequences of individual career mobility. This includes the quantitative analysis of career patterns using sequence analysis, and research on the relationship between career mobility and career outcomes, for example in terms of life satisfaction, mental wellbeing and income. Dr Koch’s work on career mobility is mostly based on the analyses of large-scale panel datasets. Dr Koch also conducts qualitative research on careers, and is currently completing a project on career attitudes and aspirations of British and German gig economy workers which was funded by the British Academy. His work was nominated for the Best Paper Prize of the Annual Conference of the Strategic Management Society and won the Best Symposium Award of the Careers Division of the Academy of Management. Dr Koch’s methodological interests include Structural Equation Modelling and Sequence Analysis. Dr Koch currently serves as an editorial board member of the International Journal of Human Resource Management (ABS3) and regularly reviews submissions for a number of scholarly outlets, including Journal of Management Studies, Human Resource Management Journal, Human Relations, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, and Social Science & Medicine. MG2608 Employment Relations MG3610 Organisational Structure, Functions and Service Delivery MG5595 Organisational Behaviour Office hours during the Autumn Term 2022 are Thursday 9-10am and 2-3pm.

Professor Francesco Moscone Francesco Moscone is Professor of Business Economics and 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 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. Enhancing analytical skills in business; Quantitative Methods in Business and Management; International Business Economics Office hours: Tuesday 5-6pm and Thursday 11am-12

Dr Bryan McIntosh Bryan has worked in central Government, the NHS, local Government and at several academic institutions occupying several roles, he was previously a Reader in Organisational behaviour and Healthcare Management. Bryan is currently the Consultant Editor of the British Journal of Healthcare Management a Technical Adviser to the Shadow Health Minister (Scottish Parliament). He has over 120 publications and has been a Principal or a co-investigator on multiple research projects and grants. Lean systems, Service quality, Policy, Equality and Diversity and Human Rights

Dr Lefteris Kretsos Dr Lefteris Kretsos is a 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 research activity focused on the study of precarious work especially among young and cultural workers. He 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 of Alexis Tsipra's government 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 and International Human Resource Management and he is Programme Leader for the PhD (Without Residence Programme). 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. 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. My current research inquiry is focused on how platform-based work, digitization, AI and systematic remote work disrupt the media and creative industries leading to radical changes in the nature of work, the pay and salary structures and the employment relationship itself. MG2610 Research Methods MG2133 Human Resource Management and its International Dimensions 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 focus is on inequality in the workplace and in the home and how inequalities relate to demographic issues. I am particularly interested in gender inequality in organisations, working hours of men and women, the work-family interface, performance appraisal, career choices, and wellbeing. My research is situated where gender, work and social inequality intersect. 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. 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. The differential positioning of men and women in self-employment. The exploration of the working hours and paid work participation of older men and women in Europe. The mental load of organising work and care. 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 am a Council Member of the British Society for Population Studies 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 and Gender and Employment. I 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