Sajia Ferdous

Education

PhD in Business and Management, Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester

MSc in International Human Resource Management and Comparative Industrial Relations, Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester

Other qualifications:

Associate Fellow of Advance HE (formerly the Higher Education Academy) (since 2019)

Member of ESRC Peer Review College

Member of the QMS Athena Swan team (since 2021)

My research mainly explores work related equality issues at the intersections of gender, age, class, race/ethnicity and other social identities with a special focus on the UK/European labour market contexts. I feel at home applying qualitative methods such as interviews and focus groups. My philosophical stance is mainly inspired by critical feminist and critical management perspectives.

I am currently the PI for the project entitled "Gender mainstreaming in talent management: an intersectional investigation into Northern Irish SMEs", which has been funded by AHSS Faculty research initiative funding, Queen's University Belfast.

I am also working on another project entitled, "Deconstructing digital precarity for older workers: intersectional comparisons between the UK and Irish labour markets". This research is supported by the QUB Agility funding scheme and Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, University of Oxford through visitng research scholar programme.

Module coordinator: MGT 7146 HRM Theory and Strategy (MSc Human Resource Management)

Module coordinator: MGT2013 Human Resource Management (BSc in Management)

PhD supervision: Huda Alrasheed (second supervisor)