Our expert staff
Essex Business School has an international reputation for research on workplace inequalities and injustices. Research by our organisation studies and human resource management group covers:
- job insecurity and its consequences across cultures
- organisational change, transition and leadership
- sustainability, ethics and corporate social responsibility
- integrated health care, workplace wellbeing and mental health
- collective creativity and innovation
- emotional and aesthetic aspects of work and workplaces
You'll have the opportunity to hear from experts such as Professor Elisabeth Kelan Professor of Leadership and Organisation at Essex Business School.
Professor Kelan is a leadership and gender expert and currently holds a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship worth £189,000 for a project exploring the future of work in two distinct areas: digitalisation and gender.
Elisabeth's work investigates women in leadership; men as change agents for gender equality; generations at work; technology in organisations; and diversity, inclusion and belonging. Her research is regularly featured in the media such as the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Telegraph. The Times featured her as one of the management thinkers to watch.
Professor Kelan regularly consults on behalf of global businesses including Accenture, General Electric, Goldman Sachs, Google, KPMG, Linklaters, Johnson & Johnson, and PwC.
The research activities of academics in our organisation studies and human resource management group is supported by the Centre for Work, Organisation and Society (CWOS) which brings together interdisciplinary research on work, society and organisational life. The Centre's research draws on the humanities and social sciences, bringing in perspectives from disciplines such as cultural studies, history, literary theory, philosophy, psychology, sociology and political economy.