University of Nottingham Malaysia
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
     
  

Public pedagogy, popular culture and women's leadership learning

Location
F4LG06
Date(s)
30th November 2018
Contact
For more information on the event, kindly e-mail Chan Wen Li.
Description
A talk presented by the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences Equality & Diversity Committee and Gender Equality in Nottingham (GEN)

The concept of public pedagogy has helped management and leadership learning scholars to recognise the significance of media artefacts as vehicles for informal learning. Public pedagogy provides a theoretical framework through which we can interrogate popular culture’s role in promoting particular discourses and shaping cultural identity. Having situated public pedagogy as an analytic lens, the speaker explores what mediated images and texts of women leaders and women’s leadership can tell us about understandings and perceptions of leadership.

The speaker will illustrate how qualitative examinations of such media constructions can help unmask systemic inequalities, which occlude the complexity of gender bias faced by women in their everyday leadership experience. A fundamental challenge for leadership learning and development is to increase awareness of gendered social and cultural norms that influence how the workplace is organized and that shape leadership understandings.

The presentation will conclude with a discussion of how the media as a site of public pedagogy for leadership development brings together understandings of informal learning, and critical approaches to learning, to promote a critically reflexive methodology for leadership learning and development.

Details
Date: 30 November 2018, Friday
Time: 14:30 to 16:00
Venue: F4LG06
             University of Nottingham Malaysia
             Jalan Broga 43500 Semenyih Selangor Darul Ehsan

Refreshments will be served.

About the speaker
Since 2016 Dr Elliott has been Professor of Human Resource Development at the University of Roehampton Business School where she is the editor-in-chief of the Taylor and Francis journal Human Resource Development International. From 2014-2017 she was Principal Investigator for the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Seminar Series “Challenging Gendered Media (Mis)representations of Women Professionals and Leaders.”

Dr Elliott is currently working with Dr Linda Perriton, University of Stirling, on a British Academy of Management funded project examining the visibility of gender and diversity on the management education curriculum. Her ongoing research projects include an examination of textual and visual representations of women’s leadership in the media, and collaborations with Sarah Robinson and Ron Kerr on the development of critical hermeneutic and visual methods.

She regularly presents her research at national and international conferences, and is an academic fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, a Fellow of the Leadership Trust Foundation in the UK and Visiting Professor at Huddersfield University Business School.

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

University of Nottingham Malaysia
Jalan Broga, 43500 Semenyih
Selangor Darul Ehsan
Malaysia

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