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Staff Profile

Dr Ana Lopes

Senior Lecturer in Work and Employment

  • Telephone: 0191 208 1567
  • Address: Newcastle University Business School
    5 Barrack Road
    Newcastle upon Tyne
    NE1 4SE
Background


Ana Lopes is a senior lecturer in Work and Employment and a Researcher Education and Development Fellow with the RED team in School X, contributing to postgraduate training for students across the HaSS Faculty. 

Her main research interests are:

  • Gender, work and employment relations
  • Gender, careers and the workplace
  • Equality and diversity, equal opportunities, diversity management
  • Living wage campaigns and community organising

Ana is an Associate Editor for the journal Work, Employment and Society. She is an Associate Academic Fellow of the CIPD and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.


     

Research


Ana Lopes is passionate about equality and diversity. Her research focuses mostly on the areas of gender, work and employment relations. Recently she has been particularly interested in the experiences and careers of women who work in non-traditional roles or in male dominated industries. She has been working on a project that has culminated in the development of a mentoring scheme for women (and by women) in aviation and aerospace, based on a knowledge exchange partnership between an academic team and the Royal Aeronautical Society, Airbus and the Royal Air Force and co-funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. This unique mentoring scheme, called alta, has been launched in 2015. The academic team continues to be involved to measure and monitor research impact.

She is also working with one of the UK’s largest unions on a project commissioned by their Women’s Committee. The study aims to better understand women’s experiences at work, career progression and development needs, as well as women’s representation and participation in trade union activism.

Ana originally studied Social Anthropology and gained her PhD in Sociology with the thesis ‘Organising in the sex industry: an action research investigation’. She has also written and published work on the casualisation of academic work, living wage campaigns and community organising.

PhD Supervision:

Ana is interested in supervising doctoral research in the following areas:

  • Gender, work and employment relations
  • Gender, careers and the workplace
  • Equality and diversity, equal opportunities, diversity management
  • Living wage campaigns and community organising


Teaching


Ana leads the following modules:

  • NBS8383 Diversity in a Global Context(PG)
  • BUS3006 Managing Diversity (UG)
  • HSS8001 Thinking About Research
Publications