1 day Conference
The Unequal Academy
Sponsored by
Jean Monet Interdisciplinary Research Centre,
The University of Manchester
People Management and Organisation Division
Manchester Business School
& Fairness at Work Research Centre, The University of Manchester
Date of the event: 5th June Wednesday 2013
Place: Manchester Business School
MBS WEST Building Room 3.76 (West)
The organizer: Dr Marianna Fotaki,
Professor of health policy, organisation theory and ethics
Manchester Business School, People, Management and Organisation Division
The event is FREE but registration is required please contact Sophie.Thomas@mbs.ac.uk
Programme
9.30 -9. 45
Teas/coffees
9.45-10.00
Introduction and Welcome by Professor Marianna Fotaki
10.00-10.30
Professor Helen Gunter, The University of Manchester
‘Knowledge and knowing in leadership’
10.30-10.45
Discussion Chaired by Professor Cathy Cassell, Manchester Business School
10.45-11.00
Coffee break
11.00-11.30
Professor Mary Evans, London School of Economics and Political Science
‘The meanings of gender inequality in the contemporary academy’
11.30-11.45
Discussion Chaired by Professor Erica Burman, Manchester University
11.45 -12.15
Professor Rosalind Gill, Kings College, London
‘The hidden injuries of the neoliberal University’
12.15-12.30
Discussion Chaired by Professor Jackie Ford, Leeds University Business School
12.30-13.30
Lunch
13.30-14.00
Professor Valerie Hey, University of Sussex
‘Towards decoding austerity's affective economy in the English academy‘
14.00-14.15
Discussion Chaired by Professor Nancy Harding, Bradford School of Management
14.15-14.45
Professor Rosemary Deem, Royal Holloway University of London
'Engendering diversity: Leadership for the 21st century university'?
14.45-15.00
Discussion Chaired by Professor Helge Hoel, Manchester Business School
15.00-15.15
Tea break
15.15-15.45
Dr Kelly Coate, Kings College London
‘Gender and prestige in academic work’
15.45-16.00
Discussion Chaired by Dr Anna Einarsdottir, Manchester Business School
16.00-16.30
Professor Marianna Fotaki, Manchester Business School
‘The masculine symbolic order and the unwanted female body in academia’
16.30-16.45
Discussion Chaired by Dr Saleema Kauser, Manchester Business School
16.45 -17.30
Plenary with all participants Chaired by Marianna Fotaki
The presenters
Marianna Fotaki is Professor at Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. She holds degrees in Medicine,
Health Economics, and a PhD in Public Policy from the London School of Economics and has worked as EU resident adviser
to the governments in transition and for Médecins Sans Frontières and Médecins Du Monde. Her research on the
marketization of public services, health inequalities, gender and otherness in organizations and business in society has
appeared in British Journal of Management, Human Relations, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Social Policy,
Organization, Policy & Politics, Public Administration, Social Science & Medicine and Sociology of Health & Illness. A
monograph, The fantasy and reality of choice in public services is due to be published by Edward Elgar.
Mary Evans is an emeritus professor at the University of Kent’s School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research
since 2007. She is a centennial professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science at present. Her major
interests at present are in narratives, both in fiction and otherwise. Prof. Evans has published on various authors (including
Simone de Beauvoir and Jane Austen) and different genres of writing (detective fiction and auto/biography). She has also
written on feminist theory and the body. At present she is working on two themes: the reproduction of gender and class
inequality (provisionally entitled Re- Writing Middlemarch) and a study of gender, religion and politics. Mary has edited
various handbooks and other collections and for fifteen years was the co-editor of the European Journal of Women’s
Studies.
Helen Gunter is Professor Education Policy in the School of Education, University of Manchester, UK and is an
Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences. She co-edits the Journal of Educational Administration and History. Her
work focuses on education policy and knowledge production in the field of educational leadership, where she has used
Bourdieu’s thinking tools to explain the configuration and development of the field. Her most recent book is: Leadership
and the Reform of Education published in 2012 by Policy Press; and her next book is: Educational Leadership and Hannah
Arendt to be published in 2014 by Routledge.
Rosalind Gill is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at King's College London. Her work is animated by questions
about power, (in)equality and social justice, and has cut across the fields of media, new technologies and work. She has
written extensively about gender inequalities in cultural work and is currently researching the experiences of academics.
She is author of Gender and the Media (Polity, 2007); and co-editor of The Gender-Technology Relation (Taylor & Francis,
1995); Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process (Routledge, 2010); New Femininities (Palgrave, 2011) and Theorising
Cultural Work (Routledge, 2013).
Valerie Hey is Professor of Education at the University of Sussex. She is co-director of the Centre for Higher Education
Studies located in the School of Education & Social Work. Her research interests have been inspired by her social and
intellectual biography and are transdisciplinary in ambition working across the fields and approaches of: feminist theory;
cultural studies and sociology. She is well-known for her work on girlhood cultures of friendship and gender and education.
She was the principal applicant for an ESRC seminar series convened to discuss the ‘disqualified discourses’ of higher
education entitled ‘Imagining the University of the Future’ and along with Professor Louise Morley, has focussed on
devising with colleagues in CHEER http://www.sussex.ac.uk/education/cheer and beyond, a cultural sociology of higher
education as a means to infuse our understanding of the Academy as producing both social divisions as well as positive
generative possibilities.
Rosemary Deem is currently Vice Principal (Education) and Professor of Higher Education Management at Royal
Holloway, University of London. Rosemary is a sociologist and an Academician of the UK Academy of Social Sciences. She
was a UK Education Research Assessment Exercise sub-panellist in 1996, 2001 and 2008, has twice chaired the British
Sociological Association, is a former UK Council for Graduate Education Executive member (1999-2002), directed the UK
Education Subject Centre ESCAlate from 2001-2004 and was Vice-Chair of the Society for Research into Higher Education
from 2007- 2009. Her research interests include higher education policy, leadership, governance and management, public
service modernisation and leadership development, equality in educational organisational settings, doctoral research
students, research and teaching relationships; the purposes of higher education.
Kelly Coate is a Senior Lecturer in Higher Education at King’s College London. Previously she was a lecturer at the
National University of Ireland, Galway and the Institute of Education, London. Her research focuses on policy and practice
in higher education, particularly in relation to gender, internationalisation and the curriculum. She is on the editorial
boards of the Journal of Education Policy, Teaching in Higher Education, and Higher Education Research and Development.