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Dr Nosheen Khan

Lecturer in Human Resource Management

  • Telephone: 0191 208 1608
  • Address: Newcastle University Business School
    5 Barrack Road
    Newcastle upon Tyne
    NE1 4SE
Background


Dr Nosheen Khan is a Lecturer in Human Resource Management at Newcastle University Business School.

Her academic work is shaped by a longstanding interest in equality, diversity and inclusion, gender and employment, organisational change, and the relationship between social responsibility and sustainability.

Her research initially focused on the role of external agents and third-sector organisations in advancing women’s access to employment and leadership positions. Drawing on Bourdieusian theory and critical realism, her work examines how organisations mobilise and transform different forms of resources, including knowledge, skills, professional networks, visibility, status and influence, to address inequalities in employment. This research also considers the relationships between individuals, organisations, policymakers, employers and advocacy groups, and how these relationships can either enable or constrain meaningful institutional change.

Building on this foundation, Nosheen’s interests have expanded to consider how intersecting inequalities shape people’s experiences of employment, careers, organisational participation and sustainability transitions. She is particularly interested in connecting equality, diversity and inclusion with responsible management and sustainability, examining how organisational and technological change can be designed in ways that are inclusive, participatory and responsive to different communities.

Her main research interests include:

  • Gender, careers and the workplace
  • Gender, work and employment relations
  • Equality, diversity and inclusion
  • Intersectionality and organisational inequality
  • Diversity, sustainability and responsible management
  • Third-sector organisations, social impact and employment
  • Agency, activism and institutional change
  • Employee voice, participation and workplace integration
  • Inclusive approaches to sustainability transitions

Nosheen is committed to interdisciplinary and engaged scholarship. She is interested in working with employers, public authorities, community groups, professional bodies and third-sector organisations to understand organisational challenges and develop practical, evidence-informed responses. A key feature of her work is the involvement of stakeholders and under-represented groups in identifying problems, evaluating interventions and shaping recommendations.

Her teaching is informed by her research and professional experience. She teaches across human resource management, equality and diversity, employee engagement, recruitment and selection, and training and development. Her approach to teaching emphasises the application of theory to workplace evidence, critical reflection and the development of responsible and inclusive organisational recommendations.

Nosheen contributes to academic leadership and scholarly community building through conference organisation, research networks, peer review and support for early-career researchers. She is currently serving as Programme Chair for the Gender, Race and Diversity in Organisations Special Interest Group of the European Academy of Management (EURAM), helping to support international conversations and collaborations on gender, race, intersectionality and organisational inequality.

Before joining academia, Nosheen worked as a Relationship Manager for multinational banking organisations, including Citibank. She also has teaching experience in Pakistan. Her professional and personal experiences of different institutional, cultural and employment contexts shaped her interest in workplace inequality and motivated her to pursue doctoral research in this area. These experiences continue to inform her commitment to research and teaching that connect academic knowledge with organisational practice and social impact.

Nosheen holds a PhD in Management from Newcastle University. During her doctoral studies at Newcastle University Business School, she received a Research Excellence Award and a Postgraduate Studentship Award. She also holds two master’s degrees from leading institutions in Pakistan and a Bachelor of Science with Honours in Computer Science from Government College University, Pakistan.

Professional Development and Certifications

  • Organisational Leadership Programme, Newcastle University: Completed a university leadership-development programme focused on strategic leadership, effective decision-making, collaboration and leading organisational change.
  • PRME Practice Certification in Responsible Management Education: Completed professional certification in responsible management education, strengthening her practice in integrating sustainability, ethics, inclusion and social responsibility into teaching and curriculum development.



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Research


Nosheen’s research lies at the intersection of equality, diversity and inclusion, gender and employment, employee voice and participation, organisational change, and responsible and sustainable management. Her work examines how individuals, organisations, networks and institutions address structural inequalities and the conditions under which their interventions produce meaningful and sustainable change.

A central strand of her research explores the role of external agents and agencies, including third-sector organisations, advocacy groups, professional associations, formal and informal networks, employers and policymakers, in improving women’s employment and career outcomes. A key contribution of this work is the development of a typology of Gender-Focused Employment Equality Organisations. The typology explains how organisations operating at individual, organisational and policy levels differ in their structures, resources, activities and capacity to advance gender equality in employment.

Nosheen’s research has expanded to encompass intersectionality and organisational inequality; employee ownership, voice and participation; the workplace integration of minoritised ethnic employees; insider EDI change agents; migration and refugee inclusion; inclusive sustainability education; corporate sustainability; and equity within sustainability transitions, including electric vehicle charging infrastructure.

Her research interests include:

  • Gender, careers and employment relations
  • Equality, diversity and inclusion
  • Intersectionality and organisational inequality
  • Employee voice, ownership and participation
  • Third-sector organisations, agency and activism
  • Migration, displacement and workplace inclusion
  • Diversity, sustainability and responsible management
  • Inclusive sustainability transitions
  • Critical realist, qualitative and participatory research

Published Research

  • Altaf, M., Davie, S., Khan, N. and Su, C. (2026) ‘Towards an integrated approach to corporate sustainability: The role of multi-stakeholder value co-creation in the food and beverage sector’, Business Strategy and the Environment, pp. 1–19. doi: 10.1002/bse.71135.
  • Kalra, K. and Khan, N. (2026) ‘Intersectional boundary spanning: Navigating gender, age and humour in multilingual teams’, in Wilmot, N.V. and Gaibrois, C. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Cross-Cultural Management. 2nd edn. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 226–237. doi: 10.4324/9781003477723-24.
  • Vincent, S., Lopes, A., Khan, N.J., Kozhevnikov, A. and Monroe, J. (2024) ‘Pandemic precarities and gendered biopolitics within the neoliberal university’, in Meliou, E., Vassilopoulou, J. and Özbilgin, M.F. (eds.) Diversity and Precarious Work During Socio-Economic Upheaval: Exploring the Missing Link. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 12–35. doi: 10.1017/9781108933070.002.
  • Altaf, M. and Khan, N.J. (2024) ‘Business ecosystem and sustainable innovative practices’, in Trinh, V.Q. (ed.) Climate Governance and Corporate Eco-Innovation: A Framework for Sustainable Companies. Cham: Springer, pp. 261–288. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-56423-9_10.
  • Altaf, M. and Khan, N. (2024) ‘Indexicality, accountability, and reflexivity in ethnomethodology: Sense-making of social actions of stakeholders for sustainable outcomes’, SAGE Research Methods: Business. London: SAGE Publications. doi: 10.4135/9781529684155.
  • Khan, N.J., Azhar, S. and Hayat, Z. (2015) ‘Strategic approach to job design: An issue in strategy implementation’, International Journal of Human Resource Studies, 5(1), pp. 48–68. doi: 10.5296/ijhrs.v5i1.6746.

Work Under Review

  • A Typology of Gender-Focused Employment Equality Organisations — under review at the British Journal of Management.
  • The Paradox of EDI Resistance — under review at Gender, Work & Organization.

Current and Funded Research

  • INTERSECT-CHARGE: Designing Fair Futures for Electric Vehicle Charging in the UK: an £85,000 interdisciplinary project investigating inequalities in access to EV charging and developing more equitable approaches to infrastructure planning and governance (for more details see https://ukerc.ac.uk/project/intersect-charge-designing-fair-futures-for-electric-vehicle-charging-in-the-uk/).
  • Towards an Equitable Transition to Electric Mobility: supported by the Newcastle University SAgE Participatory Research Fund to examine community and stakeholder experiences of EV charging infrastructure.
  • Ethnic Minority Experience and Work Integration: A Newcastle University Case Study: project lead, with Dr Komal Kalra and Dr Victoria Pagan; funded by the Newcastle University EDI Fund.
  • Insider Change Agents in Higher Education: project lead, with Dr Ana Lopes, funded by the Newcastle University Early Career Researcher Fund. The project examines the experiences and strategies of individuals seeking to advance EDI from within universities.
  • Cross-Mentoring Programmes for Women: co-led with Dr Ana Lopes and supported by HEIF and participatory research funding. The study examines how third-sector mentoring initiatives influence women’s careers, networks and professional development.

Work in Progress

  • Inclusive Sustainability in Teaching and Learning: research connecting sustainability-mindset competencies with inclusive teaching practices, supported through PRME seed funding and Newcastle University educational-development funding.
  • Employee Ownership, Voice and Participation: a critical realist study examining the organisational mechanisms that enable or constrain substantive employee participation.
  • Organising for EV charging Infrastructure: this project examines how public authorities, charge point operators, electricity networks, businesses, communities and users coordinate resources, responsibilities and decision-making to develop effective, inclusive and sustainable EV charging infrastructure.
  • Critical Integrative Review on Situation Charging: this review develops the concept of situational charging by examining how charging practices are shaped by users’ temporal routines, spatial access, social circumstances, digital interactions, institutional arrangements and justice-related concerns.
  • Critical Integrative Review on Stakeholder Value Framework in EV Charging Infrastructure: this review develops a stakeholder value framework to explain how multiple actors co-create, capture and distribute economic, social and environmental value within EV charging ecosystems.
  • Intersectional Experiences of EV Users: this project investigates how overlapping factors such as gender, disability, income, ethnicity, housing tenure, location and caring responsibilities shape users’ access to and experiences of EV charging.

Previous research contributions include the Parents and Carers Research Project, the Newcastle University Business School Research Culture Project, and research on improving women’s labour-market outcomes in UK social care.

Research Networks and Leadership

Nosheen is Co-Chair of the Refugee and Migration Research Network(RAMnet, an interdisciplinary Emerging Research Network at Newcastle University. The network brings together scholars working on migration, displacement, mobility, employment, public policy and social inequality. It supports collaborative research, publications, funding applications and engagement with organisations and communities working with migrants and refugees.

She is a Programme Chair of the Gender, Race and Diversity in Organisations Special Interest Group at the European Academy of Management since 2024. In this role, she contributes to international conference programming, symposium development and scholarly collaboration on gender, race, intersectionality and organisational inequality.

Nosheen previously chaired the EURAM standing track Women, Organisations and Beyond and was a founding member of the Gender Issues in Business Schools Conference, established at Newcastle University Business School to support doctoral researchers and early-career academics.

She is also an active member of Newcastle University Business School’s Work, Employment and Human Resource Management Research Community and contributes to peer review, research workshops, conference leadership and early-career researcher development.

Research Engagement and Collaboration

Nosheen is interested in collaborating with researchers, employers, policymakers, local authorities, professional bodies, equality advocates, and third-sector and community organisations. She is particularly interested in evaluating mentoring, networking, advocacy, employee voice and leadership-development initiatives.

Her approach emphasises participatory and engaged research that involves relevant stakeholders in identifying problems, interpreting evidence and developing practical recommendations. Through this work, she aims to produce research that advances academic debates while helping organisations create more inclusive, equitable and sustainable practices.

Teaching


Dr Nosheen Khan is a Lecturer in Human Resource Management at Newcastle University Business School. She began contributing to teaching during her doctoral studies and subsequently worked as an Associate Lecturer before joining the School as a full-time Teaching and Research Lecturer.

Nosheen teaches across human resource management, equality, diversity and inclusion and responsible management. At undergraduate level, she contributes to modules including Human Resource Management, Recruitment and Selection, Managing Diversity, and other areas of people management. She is the Module Leader for BUS2035: HR to Improving Working Lives and also contributes to BUS2000, BUS2025 and BUS3006.

As Module Leader for BUS2035, Nosheen has redesigned the module’s teaching and assessment structure to strengthen students’ ability to analyse workplace evidence and produce responsible, evidence-based recommendations. The module incorporates applied workshops on theme development, quantitative and qualitative data integration, data storytelling, recommendation design, report writing and peer feedback.

Her teaching covers areas including employee engagement, strategic human resource management, recruitment and selection, training and development, talent management, performance management, equality and diversity, and the future of work. She also supervises undergraduate management dissertations and supports students in developing independent research, critical analysis and academic writing skills.

Her approach to teaching is interactive, inclusive and evidence-based. She uses case studies, workplace data, discussion, reflective activities and applied assessment tasks to help students understand how HR policies and practices affect employees, organisations and wider society.

 

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