Jack Daly

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Jack Daly is a post-doctoral research fellow in the Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change (CERIC) at the University of Leeds. His research focusses on equality, diversity and inclusion in male-dominated occupations and industries, with a particular interest in the role of men in facilitating and/or resisting the implementation of effective equality work. Specfically, his research has spanned across multiple topics centred on (in)equalities: the gender pay gap in the professional services, gender (in)equalities in climate change, and ‘just transitions’ to a zero-carbon economy.

 

 

Research interests

My research primarily focusses equality, diversity and inclusion (ED&I) policies in traditionally-male dominated industries. It aims to understand both the the roles of men as facilitators and barriers to the implementation of effective policies and any institutional factors of resistance to creating more egalitarian working lives over the career-span. My PhD explored the gender pay gap in the financial and legal sectors, to identify structural and cultural gendered wage penalties occuring over the career course, problematising existing gender pay gap reporting legislation for a failure to stimulate the needed motivation within-firms where current actions beyond mandatory reporting remain voluntary and contradict with profit-driven motives of the industries. Since the completion of my PhD, my research has explored the how enhanced cultures of inclusion can stimulate performance in the Highways sector, and how ED&I initiatives can support the decarbonisation goals of the foundation industries. 

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Selected Conference Papers: 

Daly, J., Trappmann, V., Tomlinson, J. & Bessa, I. 2023. Can workforce diversity stimulate transformation towards a more sustainable future? TFI+ Network Conference. Sheffield, United Kingdom. 5th-6th December 2023.

Tomlinson, J., Durbin, S., Warren, S., Daly, J. 2023. In search of the good life? Experiences of executives and senior managers navigating reduced hours in the UK. European Group for Organization Sciences (EGOS) Colloquium 2023. University of Cagliari, Italy. July 6th-8th 2023.

Daly, J. 2022. Conceptualising “glass bubbles”: isolated careers in the professional services. BSA PGR Forum: Inequalities at work in the aftermath of COVID-19. University of Leeds, United Kingdom. 1st April, 2022.

Daly, J., 2021. Hegemonic masculinity and the gender pay gap: male senior-leadership as a site of resistance. EGOS Colloquium 2021. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 8th – 10th July, 2021.

Cutter, J., Trappmann, V., Daly, J. & Schulz, F. 2020. Working on climate change: organised labour and climate mitigation strategies in context. International Labour Process Conference 2020: Critical Differences at Work. Newcastle University, United Kingdom. 15th – 17th April 2020.

Trappmann, V., Cutter, J., Schulz, F. & Daly, J. 2019. Trade Unions and Climate Change. Society for the Advancement of Socioeconomics (SASE) 31st Conference: Fathomless Futures – Algorithmic and Imaged. New York, 27th – 29th June, 2019.

Daly, J. 2019. Gender and job crafting: understanding the role of gendered behaviours in the abilities and motivations to proactively craft work. BAM 2019. Aston University, England. 

 

Qualifications

• Ph.D Work and Employment Relations, University of Leeds
• MA Organizational Behaviour, University of Leeds
• BA (Hons) Business and Management, University of Lincoln

Student education

PhD supervision
•    Parul Srivastava (2024-present): Women's Underrepresentation in Leadership Roles in Indian BPO Industry.

Dissertation supervision
•    LUBS5376M Human Resource Management Dissertation

Undergraduate Seminars
•    LUBS1755 Business and Society (Combined) – 2019/20; 2021/22
•    LUBS1765 Business and Society (Social Theory) – 2019/20
•    LUBS1585 Economic Institutions (Industry) – 2019 – 2022.
•    LUBS3001 Gender and Equality at Work in Comparative Perspective – 2019/20

Master’s Level Seminars
•    LUBS5381M The Psychology of Effective Organizations - 2019/20

Undergraduate Lectures
•    LUBS3311 Human Resource Management Dissertation – 2019 – present.

 

Research groups and institutes

• Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change