Emerald and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal sponsors a Best Conference Paper Award. The winning paper will be awarded £200 and named here.

Past Winners

2025 Athens Conference

"From Token to Straw Woman: Gender quotas and the inclusion of women in France’s CAC40 Board Committees"

Daniela Cardenas, SKEMA Business School

Michel Ferrary, SKEMA Business School

"Tossing the Coin on Meritocracy: A Qualitative Study on Greek Women in Organizations"

Olivia Kyriakidou, American College of Greece

Apostolos Vrynios, American College of Greece

2024 Seville Conference

"Insights into Inclusive Supervisory Behaviors, Workplace Social Inclusion, and Turnover Intention in the Context of Employee Age"

Muhammad Ali, Queensland University of Technology

Marzena Baker, Australian Catholic University

Mirit K. Grabarski, Lakehead University

Ranjita Islam, Queensland University of Technology

2023 London Conference

“Who Does Diversity Better? The Influence of Servant Leadership and Inclusive Practices on Minority Representation in Public vs. Private Sector Organizations.” – award declined

Eddy Ng, Queen’s University

Greg Sears, Carleton University

Kara Arnold, Memorial University

“When a little compassion does not go a long way, but a little hybrid work does: The disability-inclusive quality of material disruption.” – runner up

Eline Jammaers, Hasselt University

Ive Klinksiek, Université catholique de Louvain

Noortje van Amsterdam Utrecht University

2022 Cape Town Conference

“Critical consciousness leadership for decolonising higher education's leadership: A Black consciousness perspective.”

Sadi Seyama (University of Johannesburg)

2021 Bern Conference
"Mandatory binationalism: Organizing multiple identities in a cross-border company."

Simone Pulcher, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

Lia Tirabeni, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca