Professor of Organisational Behaviour, researching equality, diversity, inclusion and social justice at work. Brunel University of London. All my publications are on researchgate.net in open access.
#Robots and #AI are reshaping education. But what does this mean for students, teachers and human judgement?
@ozbilgin.bsky.social and I introduce a framework centred on recognition, accountability and authority.
Better technology needs better #pedagogy.
Read it here: tinyurl.com/4x9jde8z
Our latest chapter is out!
@ozbilgin.bsky.social, Ebru and I explore how class hierarchies are reproduced through symbolic power and everyday emotions, including shame, gratitude, respectability and invisibility
Read it here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Our recent paper in EMJ!
@ozbilgin.bsky.social and I show how algorithms can close down worker voice, turn fear into self-silencing, and push resistance into informal digital spaces.
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Full article: Decolonising #ManagementEducation: mechanisms for challenging colonial legacies and other intersecting hierarchies of knowledge in a neoliberal context www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Sercan Hamza Bağlama, @ozbilgin.bsky.social, Cihat Erbil, and Kurt April
#Decolonisation
Our new paper in GSE!
Management education often presents itself as universal, neutral, and objective. Sercan, @ozbilgin.bsky.social, Kurt and I develop a multilevel framework for decolonising management education.
Read it here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Our paper in Management Learning!
@ozbilgin.bsky.social, Dorothy, Benedetta and I explore how professionals move beyond adaptation in times of polycrisis, recalibrating, withdrawing, and resisting as institutions change around them.
Read it here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Our study (with Sifiso, Kurt,
@ozbilgin.bsky.social) in the British Journal of Sociology. We examine how relatability racialises corporate graduate recruitment. Our paper shows how meritocracy may mask the reproduction of labour market exclusion.
Read it here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Global crises demand new research methods. Our new Routledge volume, co-edited with @ozbilgin.bsky.social and
Dimitria Groutsis, unites global scholars to rethink justice, inequality, and research for world crises.
Here is the opening chapter: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Disgraceful!
The US/Israel just bombed Sharif University in Tehran. This is not only Iran's best university, but also a top 100 global university in the field of Civil Engineering.
It has also been a center of student opposition to the Iranian gov
And Trump just bombed it...
BREAKING: Trump Fires Pam Bondi… for Not Being Corrupt Enough.
Our authoritarian president wanted Bondi to prosecute his enemies. She tried – and helped cover up the Epstein scandal, too. It wasn’t enough.
Full article: Hysteresis in the neoliberal academy: inside- and outside-track academic lives under authoritarian neoliberalism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... with @ozbilgin.bsky.social, Semih Akçomak, Serdal Temel, Elif Karaosmanoğlu, Hülya Ünlü
90+ research papers.
90+ short videos.
6–7 minutes each.
The Equality Research channel turns peer reviewed social science on equality, diversity and inclusion into short, accessible videos for teaching, presenting and practice.
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Our latest co-authored chapter with @ozbilgin.bsky.social and Dilek Torunoğlu Tinay, Incels at Work: Misogyny as Identity, Labels and Normative Structures of Work, is now published.
Call for papers: Critical HRM and Evidence-Based Policy: Challenging Power, Inequality and Managerial Orthodoxy www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-pa...@ozbilgin.bsky.social, Kurt, Milena and I inviting submissions that critically examine HRM’s role in power and inequality.
Our new paper has been accepted!
Comparing the Grenfell Tower fire (UK) and the Grand Kartal Hotel fire (Turkey), @ozbilgin.bsky.social, Raffaella and I propose Inequality-Responsive Accounting to re-centre justice in disaster governance and accountability
Read it here: shorturl.at/NAYpw
Our report is online: A scoping survey of EDI interventions in the energy sector in the UK strathprints.strath.ac.uk/94695/
UK energy sector EDI efforts show strong intent but uneven delivery; @ozbilgin.bsky.social and I call for accountable, collaborative, evidence-driven structural reform.
Our recent paper has been accepted by Human Resource Management Journal. In this paper, @ozbilgin.bsky.social, Milena, Nur, and I propose an HR-led co-design model with neurodivergent employees to move beyond tokenism towards #neuroinclusion.
Read it here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Our most recent chapter (co-authored with @ozbilgin.bsky.social), Board Diversity as Institutional Competence: Recognition and Misrecognition of Diversity Claims, is out now!
You can read it here: researchgate.net/publication/...#EDI#BoardDiversity#Competence#HR#HRM
In case you can't tell what just happened, JK Rowling instructed her followers to take photos of anyone in a women's restroom who doesn't match their idea of Western feminine beauty standards. Short hair? Thick cheekbones/jaw? Too tall or broad-shouldered? You're now "a man" and will be harassed.
If you're still buying wizard book shit, you are no friend to the trans community. Here's the wizard book bigot inciting harassment against innocent people to her 14 million followers on the nazi app.
And no, they can't Always Tell.
How does leadership in #EDI evolve during the global #altright turn? We are running a short survey (10 mins) for EDI leaders worldwide.
Take part here: forms.gle/P4Fntg9zAX59...#EDI#Leadership#Inclusion#Diversity#SocialResearch#HR#HRLeaders#HRSurvey#HRCommunity@ozbilgin.bsky.social
Mustafa F. Özbilgin (@ozbilgin.bsky.social) and I are inviting contributions for a special issue on Anti-Woke Organising and Resistance to EDI. We look forward to your papers on this significant topic.
Deadline: 30 June 2025
#CallForPapers#Woke#EDI
Call: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/as...
New Chapter Out: AI, Bias and Marginalisation (co-authored with Aybike Mergen and Nergiz Çetin Kılıç), titled “Artificial Intelligence and Bias Towards Marginalized Groups: Theoretical Roots and Challenges.” is in the volume AI and Diversity in a Datafied World of Work
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If merit is so important as you say now, why are there so many white cis het incompetent and immature men in positions of power and authority screwing up what people with merit created? Just curious.
Key U.S. agencies, including the FBI, State Department and the Pentagon, have instructed their employees not to comply with cost-cutting chief Elon Musk’s latest demand that federal workers explain what they accomplished last week — or risk losing their job. apnews.com/article/musk...