Jeff Hearn

Education and Knowledge

In many ways, all of this website, and all of the sections, are all about education and knowledge. Research and publication are intimately connected with education and knowledge, and vice versa – at least one would hope so. And that is not any kind of education and knowledge, but rather critical education and critical thinking. This might seem hardly worth saying, but it is now clearer than ever that there are strong forces opposed to critical education and critical thinking, and perhaps even education (for the masses) and knowledge (for the masses) at all. Having said that, and to translate this more to the immediate task, this section is bit of a mixed bag. Education and knowledge are about everything. The section ranges from papers on educational gaming, which I have used quite a lot in teaching to educating against violence, onto commentaries on the state of universities, higher education, and academia, questions of doing research in practice, as, for example, with research access and research ethics, broader issues of disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity, and anti-violence policy in universities, higher education, and research performing organisations.

Selected Works

  1. ‘The potential of gaming and simulation in revision’, Simulation/Games for Learning, Vol. 10(1), 1980, pp. 21-25.PDF
  2. ‘The self-directing group: a neglected issue in gaming and simulation’, Simulation/ Games for Learning, Vol. 12(3), 1982, pp. 113-122.PDF
  3. ‘Educating men against violence to women’, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Special Issue: Teaching about Violence against Women: International Perspectives, Vol. 27(1 and 2), 1999, pp. 140-151.PDF
  4. ‘Organization violations in practice: a case study in a university setting’, Culture and Organization, Vol. 9(4), 2004, pp. 253-273. Link
  5. ‘Gendering men and masculinities in research and scientific evaluations’, in Gender and Excellence in the Making, Directorate-General for Research, Science and Society, European Commission, Luxembourg, EUR 21222, 2004, pp. 57-67. Link
  6. ‘Personal resistance through persistence to organizational resistance through distance’, in Robyn Thomas, Albert J. Mills and Jean Helms Mills (eds.) Identity Politics at Work: Resisting Gender, Gendering Resistance, Routledge, London, 2004, pp. 40-63.Link
  7. Background Paper on Guidelines for Researchers on Doing Research with Perpetrators of Sexual Violence. Final Report, with Kjerstin Andersson and Malcolm Cowburn, Commissioned by Sexual Violence Research Initiative, and The Global Forum for Health Research, 2007, 36 pp. Link; Link
  8. ‘Neoliberal universities, patriarchies, masculinities, and myself: Transnational personal reflections on and from the global North’, Gender, rovné přiležitotosti, výzkum [Gender and Research], Vol. 18(1), 2017, pp. 16-41. Link
  9. ‘Men and masculinities in academia, higher education and science: approaches, applications and actions’, in Dragica Vujadinović and Zorana Antonijević (eds.) Rod na rav no prav nost u vi so kom obra zo va nju: Koncepti, praksei i zazovi [Gender Equality in Academia: Concepts, Practices and Challenges] Akademska knjiga, Novi Sad, Serbia, 2019, pp. 27-45. Link
  10. ‘Men and masculinities in academe: extending gender-sensitive perspectives, processes, policies and practices’, in Eileen Drew and Siobhán Canavan (eds.), The Gender-Sensitive University: A Contradiction in Terms, Routledge, London, 2020, pp. 97-109. Link
  11. ‘Unpacking the problem of research access(es): the case of large knowledge-intensive international consultancies’, with Mira Karjalainen and Charlotta Niemistö, Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management, Vol. 10(3), 2015, pp. 1-21. Best Paper, 2015, 2016 Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence. Link; Link
  12. ‘”Do no harm”: Ethics, management and research projects’, in Suvi Heikkinen and Marjo Siltaoja (eds.) Henkilöstöjohtamisen professori Anna-Maija Lämsän juhlakirja [Festschrift for Anna-Maija Lämsä], University of Jyväskylä School of Business and Economics, Jyväskylä, 214/2022, pp. 139-147. Link
  13. ‘Wandering around the edges of the arts and humanities: Why is some writing difficult?’, in Sandra Ponzanesi, Kathrin Thiele, Eva Midden, Domitilla Olivieri and Trude Oorschot (eds.) Transities in Kunst, Cultuur en Politiek [Transits in Art, Culture and Politics], Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2023, pp. 221-230. Link
  14. ‘Gender-based violence in higher education and research performing organisations: Three steps in critique and reconceptualisation’, with Sofia Strid, Anne Laure Humbert, Fredrik Bondestam and Liisa Husu, Journal of Gender-based Violence, 2025, 23 pp.Link