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aNN CUNLIFFE
Ann is currently Professor of Organization Studies at the Escola de Administraçâo da Fundaçâo Getulio Vargas, Brazil and Visiting Professor at the University of Bath, UK. She previously held positions in the UK at Bradford University and the University of Leeds, and in the U.S. at the University of New Mexico and California State University. Ann was Associate Editor at the British Journal of Management, as well as Associate Editor and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Management Learning for 12 years.
Ann’s current research interests include more human and ethical ways of doing research and theorizing. For over 25 years, she has been engaged in non-traditional and more reflexive forms of qualitative research. Her passion is supporting others who are also engaged in more situated, imaginative and relevant research and she initiated the biennial Qualitative Research in Management and Organization Conference in 2008 as a place for exchanging ideas and for constructive dialogue around a multiplicity of non-mainstream qualitative methodologies and methods.
helena liu
Helena Liu (PhD, University of Sydney) is an Associate Professor at Bond Business School, located on the lands of the Kombumerri people of the Yugambeh language region, colonized as the Gold Coast, Australia. Her research interrogates the gender, race, and class dynamics that underpin the enduring romance with leadership.
More recently, Helena's work has engaged in radical dreaming about the liberatory possibilities of anti-racist feminist leadership. Her book, Redeeming Leadership: An Anti-Racist Feminist Intervention was published with Bristol University Press in 2021. She is currently an Associate Editor at Human Relations, while her work has also been published in Journal of Business Ethics, Organization, Management Learning, Journal of Marketing Management, and Journal of Intercultural Studies.