Jeff Hearn

Education and Knowledge

This section is a bit of a mixed bag. It ranges from papers on educational gaming, which I have used quite a lot in teaching in the past, to commentaries on the state of universities and academia, onto questions of research access and ethics, and disciplinary and interdisciplinarity.

Selected Works

  1. ‘The potential of gaming and simulation in revision’, Simulation/Games for Learning, Vol. 10(1), Spring 1980, pp. 21-25.
  2. ‘Issues of control in simulation and gaming: a reconsideration’, Simulation/Games for Learning, Vol. 13(3), Autumn 1983, pp. 120-125.
  3. ‘Organization violations in practice: a case study in a university setting’, Culture and Organization, Vol. 9(4), 2004, pp. 253-273. Link
  4. ‘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
  5. ‘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.
  6. 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
  7. ‘On men, organizations and intersectionality: personal, working, political and theoretical reflections (or how organization studies met profeminism)’, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, special issue on “Men ‘Doing’ In-Equalities Research: Critical Reflections and Analyses from Men in the Field”, Vol. 33(5), 2014, pp. 414-428.
  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