Jeff Hearn is Professor Emeritus, Management and Organisation, here at Hanken, as well as being Research Director, GODESS (gender, organisation, diversity, equality, social sustainability) Institute. He is also Senior Professor, Human Geography, Örebro University, Sweden; Professor of Sociology, University of Huddersfield, UK; and honorary doctor, Social Sciences, Lund University, Sweden.
His research ranges across work, care, organisations, management, age, gender, sexuality, violence, men and masculinities, policy, ICTs, and transnational studies, including implications of decoloniality/postcolonialism for ‘centres’ and the global North. Involvement in many national, Nordic, EU, and international projects, including currently the 4-country project, Equal Care on older people living alone and digitalisation.
He is a member of the Hanken 'Responsible Organising' Area of Strength, and a long-term member of the Hanken Gender Research Group, and has edited with Charlotta Niemistö and Margaux Viallon, Memories and Reflections from the Gender Research Group: 21 Years of Collaborative Action, Hanken School of Economics Research Report, 2021. https://tuhat.helsinki.fi/ws/portalfiles/portal/173009134/FR_79_Gender_Reseach_Group.pdf. He has supervised 50 PhDs to completion, including 18 at Hanken.
He has published widely in such journals as: Organization; Organization Studies; British Journal of Management; Human Relations; Work, Employment & Society; Journal of Business Ethics; International Journal of Public Sector Managment; Leadership; Gender in Management, Gender, Work & Organization; Zeitschrift für Personalforschung; Finnish Journal of Business Economics/Liiketaloudellinen Aikakauskirja; Culture and Organization; Ekonomiska Samfundets Tidskrift; Equality, Diversity and Inclusion; Hallinnon Tutkimus; Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management; and Global Discourse.
External assignments include: board member of many journals, such as Leadership, Gender in Management, Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management, and Gender, Work & Organization (Distinguished board); Co-managing editor, Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality book series (42+ titles); Co-editor, NORMA: the International Journal for Masculinity Studies; and previously (Co-)chair, RINGS, the International Research Association of Institutions of Advanced Gender Studies, 2014-2020.
Recent books include Men of the World: Genders, Globalizations, Transnational Times, Sage, 2015; Men’s Stories for a Change, co-author, Common Ground, 2016; Engaging Youth in Activism, Research and Pedagogical Praxis: Transnational Perspectives on Gender, Sex, and Race, co-editor, Routledge, 2018; Age at Work, with Wendy Parkin, Sage, 2021; Knowledge, Power and Young Sexualities: A Transnational Feminist Engagement, with Tamara Shefer; and Digital Gender-Sexual Violations, with Matthew Hall and Ruth Lewis, both Routledge, 2022; and currently completing the co-editing, with Kadri Aavik, David Collinson and Anika Thym, of Routledge Handbook on Men, Masculinities and Organizations: Theories, Practice and Futures of Organizing.
