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Past Conferences - EDI 2025 Athens

Invited Speakers  

Dr Emily Yarrow is a Senior Lecturer in Management and Organisations, at Newcastle University Business School, UK. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) and Academic Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (MCIPD). Emily is Vice Chair for EDIR (Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Respect) of the British Academy of Management, and an elected member of Newcastle University Senate.  

Emily earned her doctorate at the Centre for Equality and Diversity (CRED) at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. Her scholarly work focusses on and contributes to contemporary understandings of gendered organisational behaviour, artificial intelligence, women's experiences of organisational life, and the [inclusive] future of work. Her current work is focused on algorithmic bias perpetuation in hiring platforms, exploring how subjective preferences that reflect societal biases, which are inscribed in algorithms, may lead to unfair or discriminatory hiring outcomes.

She has contributed to leading international top-tier journals including: Gender, Work and Organization; Work, Employment and Society; Public Management Review; The British Educational Research Journal, and Academy of Management Learning and Education. Emily is an Editorial Review Board Member of: Gender, Work and Organization; Work, Employment and Society; and Group & Organization Management.  

She is the Degree Programme Director for MSc Global Human Resource Management (CIPD Accredited Programme) at Newcastle University Business School. Bringing both academic and blue-chip commercial experience, Emily has worked for organisations such as Procter and Gamble as a Buyer, and Scottish Widows (Lloyds Banking Group), as well as having been involved in research projects for the Scottish Government, and Diageo.  

Feel free to reach out to Dr Emily Yarrow: Emily.yarrow2@newcastle.ac.uk https://uk.linkedin.com/in/emily-yarrow-00573721

Recent publications: Yarrow, E. and Davies, J., (2024). A typology of sexism in contemporary business schools: Belligerent, benevolent, ambivalent, and oblivious sexism. Gender, Work & Organization, 31(5), pp.2019-2039. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/gwao.12914  Johnston, K. and Yarrow, E., (2024). Active representation and identity taxation: unintended outcome of representative labour?. Public Management Review, 26(4), pp.970-987. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14719037.2022.2126881 Yarrow, E. and Johnston, K., (2023). Athena SWAN: “Institutional peacocking” in the neoliberal university. Gender, Work & Organization, 30(3), pp.757-772. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gwao.12941 Yarrow, E. and Anderson, V. (2024). The Future of HRD in a Changing, Complex, and Ambiguous World. In: The Sage Handbook of Human Resource Development. Tonette S. Rocco, Michael L. Morris and Rob F. Poell Editors, 55 City Road: Sage Publications Ltd. https://sk.sagepub.com/hnbk/edvol/embed/the-sage-handbook-of-human-resource-development/chpt/55- future-hrd-a-changing-complex-ambiguous-world

Mustafa F. Özbilgin is a Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Brunel Business School, London. His research focuses on workplace equality, diversity and inclusion from comparative and relational perspectives.  He has conducted field studies in the UK and internationally. Supported by international and national grants from the ESRC,  EPSRC, EU Horizon2020, CIPD, ACE, ACCA, and British Academy. he studied changing policies and practices of workplace equality, diversity and inclusion. He is an engaged scholar, driven by values of workplace democracy, equality for all, and humanisation of work. 

He has authored and edited more than 20 books and published over 200 papers in academic journals such as the British Medical Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Learning and Education, Journal of Management Studies, British Journal of Management, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Human Resource Management, Human Relations, Gender Work and Organization, and Social Science and Medicine, among others. 

He has conducted research, consultancy and training at a large number of organisations, including the House of Commons, Barclays Bank, The Bank West Australia, Google, Halifax, the CIPD, the National Health Service, the NHS Employers, L'Oreal, Tesco, the Probation Services, The UK Fire Service, the Economist Research Unit, the OECD, the WRVS, DTI, Rio Tinto, PwC, Linklaters and ACCA.

He served as the editor-in-chief of the journal, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: an international journal (Emerald Press) between 2006 and 2010. He served as the editor-in-chief of the European Management Review (EMR), the official journal of the European Academy of Management (EURAM), from 2014 to 2018 and as the editor-in-chief of the British Journal of Management, the official journal of the British Academy of Management, for four years from 2010 to 2014. He is currently serving on the editorial boards of over 20 journals internationally.