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Staff Profile

Dr Emily Yarrow

Senior Lecturer

Background

Dr Emily Yarrow is a Senior Lecturer in Management and Organisations, in the Leadership, Work and Organisation Subject Group. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) and Academic Member of the CIPD (MCIPD). 

Emily's scholarly work focusses on and contributes to contemporary understandings of gendered organisational behaviour, women's experiences of organisational life, and the future of work. Her research interests broadly include organisational theory, gender and inequality regimes, impact, and governance in higher education. 

Emily earned her doctorate at the Centre for Equality and Diversity (CRED) at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. She also holds an MA in International Business Management from Newcastle University Business School. 

She has contributed to leading 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. 

Emily currently serves as Chair of the Board of Examiners for Undergraduate study, and is the Degree Programme Director for MSc Global Human Resource Management (CIPD Accredited Programme).  Emily is also a currently serving elected member of Newcastle University Senate.   

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. 

Emily is available for media comment on any of her research interests, including in print, radio, or television; she is aware of the need to respond to journalists in a timely manner. Areas of her expertise include:

  • Gender equality
  • Gender pay gap
  • Organisational inequalities and social justice
  • Employment and evaluation issues in Higher Education

Emily has supervised student dissertations (from undergraduate to PhD) and is interested in working collaboratively on projects that fit her areas of expertise. She is happy to hear from prospective PhD students, particularly those with an interest in equality, diversity, and inclusion, strategic HRM, and higher education.


Research


Core areas of research:

  • Gendered organisational behaviour
  • Women’s lived experiences of organisational life
  • Developing [equitable and sustainable] work futures
  • Critical organisational theory
  • Governance in higher education
  • Research impact and inequalities

Emily is passionate about social justice in education and equality of opportunity in a multitude of organisational settings, and possesses a fervent interest in management and organisational theory overall, particularly surrounding women’s career development, vertical gender segregation and [gendered] power dynamics in organisations. 

Emily is also interested in the algorithmic perpetuation of inequality and is keen to develop potential global collaborations in this domain. 

To date, her research has focused on the impact of research evaluation on female academic careers, research impact, women’s lived experiences of organisational life, and the experiences of older workers.




Teaching

Emily has a wide range of teaching experience at all levels including MBA, with a focus on Human Resource Management, Global Human Resource Management, and Research Methods. Having taught for over ten years at a range of Universities, including Queen Mary University of London; The University of Edinburgh, and Portsmouth Business School, Emily has a passion for inclusive teaching, student engagement, and fostering independent learning.   


Emily currently teaches at both the Undergraduate and Postgraduate levels in the Business School.


She is Degree Programme Director for Global Human Resource Management MSc (2022-) 

and Module Leader for:

NBS8386 : Human Resource Development in a Global Economy (Postgraduate)

BUS2018: Research Methods (Undergraduate)


Emily also teaches on NBS8326: Managing Organisations and People (Postgraduate)



Publications