Our Research
Our research focuses on the following sub-themes:
Sub-theme 1: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Our research is characterised by a commitment to organisational practices that promote equality, diversity and inclusion.
Examples of our research
Grace Gao (Co I) - Tackling Hidden Barriers and Advancing Inclusion for East and Southeast Asian Academics in the UK Higher Education (Wellcome Trust's Institutional Funding for Research Culture, University of Birmingham ASPIRE Joint Project)
Oonagh Harness (PI) - On the road – Women's experiences of driving work in the UK (BA/Leverhulme Small Grant Scheme)
Valerie Egdell (Northumbria lead) - Working With Dementia (WWD) Network Plus (Alzheimer’s Society, ESRC and NIHR funded, 2024-29)
Abdellatif, A., & Prasad, A. (2024). How does legal status inform immigrant agency during encounters of workplace incivility?. Journal of Business Ethics, 1-13.
Nguyen, A. T., Doan, T., & Nguyen, A. T. L. (2025). Multiple capable guardianship and workplace cyberbullying: A mediating moderating study in Vietnam. Environment and Social Psychology, 10(1), Article 3257. https://doi.org/10.59429/esp.v10i1.3257
Nguyen, D. T. N., Nguyen, H. N., Teo, S. T. T., Nguyen, N. T. H., & Quan, T. H. M. (2025). The interactional effects of contextual and individual factors on work–home enrichment. Personnel Review. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1108/PR-07-2023-0560
Sub-theme 2: Meaningful Work
We explore the meanings we attribute to, and derive from, work, especially in the context of ageing, health and well-being, and parenting.
Examples of our research
Egdell, V., Hussein, R., Harrison, D., Bader, A. K., & Wilson, R. (2023). ‘I Find it Daunting... That I’m Gonna Have to Deal with This until 60’: Extended Working Lives and the Sustainable Employability of Operational Firefighters. Work, Employment and Society, 37(3), 721-739.
Sub-theme 3: Human Resource Management
We drive research that examines human resource management, human resource development, coaching, competency and performance management, work design, organisational change, agile frameworks, and SME dynamics.
Examples of our research
Rachael Thompson (Co I) - The recruitment, retention and career progression of women police officers and women (civilian) police staff (Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner and Durham Police and Crime Commissioner funded)
Bakkevig Dagsland, A-H. Robinson, R.N.S. & Brenner, M. (2024). Stemming (chef’s) occupational attrition: Navigating and surviving the socialisation process, International Journal of Hospitality Management, 122,103847.
Bozionelos, N., Seraj, S., & Bozionelos, G. (2025). Mentoring: Could there also be caveats in it? European Management Review. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/emre.70003
Jam, F.A., Ali, I., Albishri, N., Mammadov, A., and Mohapatra, A.K. (2025). How does the adoption of digital technologies in supply chain management enhance supply chain performance? A mediated and moderated model. Accepted/In press at the Technological Forecasting & Social Change.
Lamovšek, A., Radević, I., Mohammed, S. S., & Černe, M. (2025). Beyond the office walls: Work design configurations for task performance across on‐site, hybrid and remote forms of work. Information Systems Journal, 35(1), 279-321.
Nantunda, L., & Zhu, X. (2025). Igniting executives through reflective development with the composite leadership innovation and change model: a UK automotive manufacturing Journal of Work-Applied Management, 1-18. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1108/JWAM-02-2025-0041
Shujahat, M., Wang, M., Ali, M., Zhu, Q., & Škerlavaj, M. (2025). The dual effects of job design on knowledge hiding: expanding job demands–resources theory to employee rational-choice behaviour. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 36(2), 173-205. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2024.2442081
Warhurst, R. P., & Black, K. (2024). Theorising Later-Career as a Basis for Enhancing Inclusion and Extending Working Lives Through Human Resource Development. Human Resource Development Review, 23(4), 522-544.
Zhang, L., Lin, Z., Baranchenko, Y., & Ren, L. (2025). Intra-family succession and firm’s internationalization: a network-based resource perspective. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJEBR-10-2023-1066
Sub-theme 4: Critical Management Studies
Critical Management Studies challenges conventional management, focusing on ethical practices, social justice, and power dynamics in organisations. Our research challenges workplace norms to foster inclusive, equitable, and people-centred environments.
Examples of our research
Abdellatif, A., Boncori, I., & Mandalaki, E. (2024). Exploring academic careers through the metaphors of doors and ladders: A relational, feminist, and vulnerable approach. Organization, 13505084241276642.
Mirabito, A., Solnet, D., Cockburn, B.S., Golubovskaya, M., Hu, X(J)., McClelland, L.E. & Robinson, R.N.S. (2025). Crafting the road to well-being for precarious frontline workers: Explicating the role of jolts and resources, Journal of Vocational Behavior, 157. 104097
Muñoz, K. E., Robinson, R. N. S., & Marston, G. (2025). Reframing tourism labour: Alterity and the global south. Annals of Tourism Research, 112, 1-15. Article 103950. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2025.103950
Hussein, R. P. (2023). Locked down? Speaking from the shadows and silence for survival. Gender, Work & Organization, 30(1), 301-311.
Tracey, H. (2025). ‘You’d die if you didn’t have fun’: interpreting the experiences of long-term unemployed men as Bakhtinian death-rebirth. Work, Employment and Society, 39(3), 748-767. https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170241295680
