Jack Daly

Profile

Jack Daly is an MKTP Research Associate and Diversity, Inclusion and Performance Lead 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. His research has spanned across multiple topics centred on (in)equalities: the gender pay gap in the professional services, how to implement effective inclusion initiatives in the construction, gender (in)equalities in climate change, and ‘just transitions’ to a zero-carbon economy.

Research interests

My research 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 research spans across multiple sectors, including the profesisonal services, construction, entrepreneurship and the green economy. My PhD, completed in 2022, 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.

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

Current postgraduate researchers

• Parul Srivastava