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Dr Grace Gao

Assistant Professor

School: Newcastle Business School

Grace is a Senior Lecturer in Leadership and HR Management at Newcastle Business School, and the Associate Editor for Gender, Work and Organization (CABS3*). She has also co-edited Special Issues at the International Journal of Management Reviews (CABS3*) and at Management Learning (CABS3*).

Her area of expertise encompasses relational and interdisciplinary perspectives on equality, diversity, and inclusion at work. This involves incorporating feminist theories and interrogating work on the gendered nature of non-traditional employment and the emergence of women in male-dominated sectors across borders. Grace graduated from the Management School of the University of Sheffield, UK. She has examined how the intersection of gender, race/ethnicity, time, space, and lifestyle can construct and reconstruct younger agents' career trajectories in computing and IT as part of her Ph.D. thesis. She is currently doing projects on the topics of singlehood, critical race, decolonial feminism, work-family dynamics, and female entrepreneurship.

Grace is active in engaging with qualitative resesearch methods and creative forms of writing, informed by feminist epistemologies, to explore issues of gender, diversity, embodiment, ethics and affect in organisations. Grace's research has appeared in international outlets such as Gender Work and Organization, Journal of Family Theory and Review, Studies in Higher Education, and Management Learning.

Grace Gao

Intersections between gender, race, identity work, agency and power relations in organisation studies;

Technofeminism, sex and changing subjectivites;

Singlehood and work-family dynamics;

Inclusion, diversity and equality in the workplace;

Gender, AI and the Future of Work.

  • Jonathon Wilson Exploring the work-life experiences of childfree professionals: Challenges, opportunities and future change at work Start Date: 01/10/2025 End Date: 17/10/2025
  • Charlotte Wren Exploring the work-life experiences of childfree professionals: Challenges, opportunities and future change at work Start Date: 01/04/2026
  • Jonathon Wilson Exploring the work-life experiences of childfree professionals: Challenges, opportunities and future change at work Start Date: 01/10/2025 End Date: 03/12/2025
  • Marketing and Market Research MSc
  • Management Science PhD
  • Teaching & Learning PGCert

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