Prof. M.C.L. van den Brink (Marieke)

Professor - Radboud Social Cultural Research
Professor - Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies

Chair: Gender and Diversity

Contact

marieke.vandenbrink@ru.nl

Visiting address

Thomas van Aquinostraat 4
6525 GD NIJMEGEN

Postal address

Postbus 9104
6500 HE NIJMEGEN

Working days Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

Marieke van den Brink is Professor of Gender and Diversity at the faculty of Social Sciences and scientific director of Radboud Gender and Diversity Studies.

The central themes of her research and teaching are gender and diversity in organizations, organizational learning and change, power and resistance and she links these themes with macro developments such as migration, new public management and austerity. She studies these subjects using an innovative mixed methods approach, with a focus on qualitative techniques such as organizational ethnographies and discourse analysis.

Research theme

Gender and diversity in organizations

Research group

Gender & Diversity Studies

Tags: gender and diversity, organisational change, diversity management, inclusion, networking, leadership, micropolitics, power and resistance, critical management studies, feminist interventions

Publications

Research grants and prizes

Projects

2018 - 2019 Harassment in Dutch academia: Exploring manifestations, facilitating factors, effects and solutions More information
2017 - 2022 Inclusion in organizations. Organizations are increasingly divers in term of gender, ethnicity and class, especially in low-skilled-labour (LSL) organizations. This study examines how these organizations deal with its diversity in their workforce and how they create inclusive, safe and productive working environments. More information
2016 - 2017 Gender practices in the appointment process of women on boards (funded by the Ministry of Eduction). More information
2013 - 2017 Gendering the Academy and Research: combating career instability and asymmetries (EU FP7 Garcia/PI). This international comparative research project (funded by the EU) examines how gender affects the career possibilities of academics in an era of austerity, new managerialism and globalization. It shows how the economic recession is creating a turbulent environment for higher education systems which poses new challenges for universities and academics. More information
2011 - 2015 Sustainable change towards diversity (VENI grant/PI). This project was a scale case study research on organizational learning and change towards diversity. This research analyzed the strategies, networks and resources used by change agents at the micro-processual level to develop the capacity of an organization to change. More information

Curriculum Vitae

Ancillary activities

About

Marieke van den Brink conducts research into gender and diversity within organisations, including those within the scientific community. She specifically researches the existing opportunities and the obstacles that prevent women or persons of colour from being excluded from the labour market.