Guest Scholars:

• Dr. Jamie L. Callahan (Durham University, United Kingdom).

• Dr. Sharon Mavin (University of Newcastle, United Kingdom).

• Dr. Melissa Yoong (University of Nottingham Malaysia).

Topics Include:

• What is meant by the term Gender?

• What is the connection between Gender and the concepts of work and the workplace?

• How does the increasing focus on transgender and nonbinary issues fit into the wider discussion on Gender within organizations?

• What is the connection between Gender and HRD?

• Advice for HRD practitioners on how to look critically at their own organization’s performance on Gender issues?

• Advice for HRD practitioners on how to work on multiple issues in parallel?

Bios:

• Dr. Jamie L. Callahan (EdD, The George Washington University; PhD, Tilburg University) is Professor of Organization and Ethics at Durham University. She is the former Editor of Human Resource Development Review and current Co-Editor of International Journal of Management Reviews, She has also earned numerous research awards, including the inaugural Laura Bierema Excellence in Critical HRD Award, Academy of Human Resource Development 2020 Scholar of the Year Award and 2015 Outstanding Book of the Year Award. Her research addresses issues of power and privilege in organized contexts, leading her to explore marginalized groups’ experiences of leadership, learning, and organizational transformation. Her particular passion is championing gender equity.

• Dr. Sharon Mavin is Professor of Leadership and Organization Studies at Newcastle University and Co-Chair of UFHRD. Awarded the British Academy of Management Medal for Leadership in 2021 and added to the Northern Power Women Power List (2022), Sharon’s research interests are gender and women leaders, vulnerability, identity, learning, dirty work, gendered media representations and organisation studies. Recent research about women elite leaders, identity, learning and vulnerability is published in Management Learning, Human Relations, Gender in Management an International Journal and Gender, Work and Organization. Sharon co-edited the Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in Gender in Management published in 2021.

• Dr. Melissa Yoong is a sociolinguist at the University of Nottingham Malaysia. She conducts research on issues relating to language, gender, employment and family care, with a particular focus on postfeminism and neoliberal feminism in media discourse. She is author of Professional Discourses, Gender and Identity in Women's Media published by Palgrave as well as other contributions to journals and edited books.

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Sponsor:

This episode is sponsored by the Board of the Academy of Human Resource Development, which encourages you to register for their 30th International Research Conference in the Americas in Minneapolis, MN, March 1-4, 2023. For full details, visit https://www.ahrd.org/.