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Professor Elena Doldor

Elena

Professor of Leadership and Diversity

Email: e.r.doldor@qmul.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8985
Room Number: Room 4.21, Francis Bancroft Building, Mile End Campus
Office Hours: Thursday 4-5pm

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I am a Professor of Leadership and Diversity within the School of Business and Management, where I lead the school’s impact agenda and co-direct one of its most prominent research centres. My key expertise is on diversity and leadership, having carried out research on this topic for 15 years. My empirical work is generally qualitative and draws on naturalistic organisational data to investigate and theorize the organisational processes accounting for the lack of diversity in leadership, and for the different career experiences of women and ethnic minorities. Across different projects I have examined head-hunters’ board selection practices and their impact on gender balance on corporate boards; promotion processes to partnership level for women and ethnic minority professionals in professional services firms; the nature of gender bias in 360 narrative feedback provided to leaders; and gendered experiences of organisational politics for leaders. I have published in journals of recognized international excellence such as The Leadership Quarterly, Human Relations, Human Resource Management Journal, British Journal of Management and Harvard Business Review.

I have a track record of collaborating with practitioners, organizations and policymakers to generate impact from my research and to advance diversity and inclusion in the workplace. I worked with national and transnational policymakers (e.g. Government Equalities Office, the Equality and Human Rights Commission, the European Parliament, the Davies Review on Women on Boards, the Hampton-Alexander Review on Women FTSE Leaders), corporations and professional services firms (e.g. Aviva, KPMG, EY and Barclays) and practitioners in the equality and diversity space through commissioned research, policy reports, and advisory roles.

Before joining Queen Mary, I worked as a Senior Research Fellow at Cranfield School of Management, where I obtained her PhD. I have an MSc in Organizational Psychology from Pierre Mendes University, France, and I was a Fulbright Visiting Fellow at Northwestern University, USA.

I welcome proposals for PhD supervisions on topics broadly related to my core research areas.

Twitter: @DrElenaDoldor
LinkedIn: Elena Doldor

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