Jeff Hearn - professor of Gender Studies

Research profile and interests:

• Critical Studies on Men and Masculinities
• Gender, Sexuality, Diversity, Organisations and Management
• Violence and Abuse
• Postcolonialism, Transnationalisation
• Social Theory, Methodology, Material-discursive Analysis
• Autoethnography, Memory Work
• Information Society and ICTs
• Cultural Studies
• Embodiment and Ageing

2. Short CV

Background:
Education: PhD in Social Sciences (Bradford), MA Geography (Oxford), MA Organisation Studies (Leeds), PGDipTP Urban Planning and Sociology (Oxford Brookes), AcSS (UK Academician)

Hertfordshire County Council 1970-1972; Northampton New Town Development Corporation 1972-1973; University of Bradford 1974-1995 (Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader, Head of Department); Research Professor in Social Sciences, University of Manchester 1995-2003; Professor II, Sociology, Oslo University 1998-2001; Professor, Management and Organisation, Swedish School of Economics, Helsinki, 2003-, Professor of Sociology, University of Huddersfield, 2003-, Visiting Professor in Universities of Gothenburg, Helsinki, Innsbruck, Sunderland, Swedish School of Economics (Helsinki), Tampere, Uppsala, Växjö.

Research and projects:

• Director, Vinnova 4D Doing Driving, Doing Design
• Partner, with Guest Professor Liisa Husu, EU FP7 GenSET, Gender in Science and Technology:
• Director, with Professor Robert Morrell, VR Sweden-South Africa Research Network on Hegemonic Masculinity
• GenSET – a new major EU Gender and Science project to Linköping

Assignments:

• Co-Director of VR GEXcel Centre of Gender Excellence
• Leader, GEXcel Theme 2 “Deconstructing the Hegemony of Men and Masculinities” and Theme 9 “Gendered sexualed transnationalisations”
• Co-editor, Men and Masculinities
• Co-managing editor, with Nina Lykke, Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality book series
• Associate editor, Gender, Work & Organization and member of editorial advisory boards of many other journals
• Member of Academic Board and Selection Committee, EDDA, the Icelandic Interdisciplinary Centre of Excellence on Equality, Diversity, Development, Advancement

3. Highlighted publications

• The Gender of Oppression (Wheatsheaf, St Martin's Press, 1987)
• 'Sex' at 'Work' (with Wendy Parkin, Wheatsheaf, SMartin's Press, 1987; Prentice Hall/St Martin's Press, 1995)
• Men in the Public Eye (Routledge, 1992)
• The Violences of Men (Sage, 1998)
• Consuming Cultures: Power and Resistance (co-editor with Sasha Roseneil, Macmillan, St Martin’s Press, New York, 1999)
• Transforming Politics: Power and Resistance (co-editor with Paul Bagguley, Macmillan. St Martin’s Press, 1999)
• Information Society and the Workplace: Spaces, Boundaries and Agency (co-editor with Tuula Heiskanen, Routledge, 2004)
• Gender, Sexuality and Violence in Organizations (with Wendy Parkin, Sage, 2001)
• Handbook of Studies on Men and Masculinities (co-edited with Michael Kimmel and Raewyn Connell, Sage, 2005)
• Men and Masculinities in Europe (with Keith Pringle et al., Whiting & Birch 2006)
• European Perspectives on Men and Masculinities (with Keith Pringle and members of CROME, Palgrave Macmillan 2006)

Recently edited/co-edited journal special issues are:
Sexualities (2007) (with Robert Morrell, Deevia Bhana and Relebohile Moletsane) on sexualities in Southern Africa; British Journal of Management (2008) (with Adelina Broadbridge) on new research directions in gender and management; and NORMA: The Nordic Journal of Masculinity Studies (2007) on life course research.

My most recent books are Sex, Violence and the Body: The Erotics of Wounding (co-edited with Viv Burr, Palgrave Macmillan) and Managers Talk About Gender (with Rebecca Piekkari and Marjut Jyrkinen, Edita, 2009). I am currently co-editing, with Elzbieta Oleksy and Dorota Golanska The Limits of Gendered Citizenship (Routledge), and, with Elisabetta Ruspini, Bob Pease and Keith Pringle, Men and Masculinities around the World: Transforming Men's Practices (Palgrave Macmillan).