Staff profiles
Dr Liz Doherty
Emeritus professor, BA, MA, PhD, MCIPD
Phone 0114 225 5145
E-mail l.doherty@shu.ac.uk
Subject areas
- human resource management
- employee relations
- equal opportunities and diversity management
- cross-cultural management
- work-life balance
- gender and employment
Profile
After completing her MA in Industrial Relations and working for a period as a research associate at the University of Oxford, Liz spent around 12 years working as a practitioner. She worked as an industrial relations officer, a personnel manager, a training manager and head of equal opportunities.
This experience was gained in range of different industries - nuclear energy, the voluntary sector and education. Liz became an academic in 1991 at Oxford Brookes University and she joined Sheffield Hallam University in 2005. Her research has spanned two broad areas. One has been in evaluating human resource practice in the hospitality industry, and the other has been related to equality and diversity, particularly in relation to women's employment.
Her recent work has been funded by the European Social Fund, the DTI, the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education and private industry. In the summer of 2005, Liz led the group that organised the Fourth European Conference on Gender Equality in Higher Education which was held in the UK.
Research interests
- human resource management (including international HRM)
- equal opportunities and diversity management
- careers in higher education and in the hospitality industry
- the causes of women's under-representation at senior levels
- work-life balance
- equal pay issues
Teaching interests
- human resource management
- employee relations
- change management and innovation
- equality and diversity management
- research methods
Author of recent publications
'The complexity of culture: using the appraisal process to compare French and British Managers in a UK based international hotel organisation' (with S Groschl ) International Joumal of Hospitality Management, (published electronically May 2005, forthcoming in hard copy)
'Human resource management and performance in the Barbados hotel industry' (with P Alleyne and D Greenidge) International Journal of Hospitality Management (published electronically in August 2005, forthcoming in hard copy)
'Work-life balance: implications for women' (2004) Employee Relations, Vol 26, Issue 5
'The appraisal process: beneath the surface' (2002) (with S Groschl ) Journal of Human Resources in Hospitality and Tourism, No 1, Issue 3
'Women's employment in Italian and UK hotels' (2001) (with S Manfredi ) International Journal of Hospitality Management, Vol 20
Research and consultancy projects
- European Social Fund: Improving Women's Representation in Senior Positions in the Higher Education Sector
- The Leadership Foundation for Higher Education: Leadership Styles for Work-Life Balance
- The Department for Trade and Industry: Work-Life Balance Partnership Project in a UK University
- The Department of Trade and Industry and the HCIMA: Work-Life Balance Good Practice in the Hospitality Industry
- Consortium of industry bodies and employers: Careers in Hospitality Management
