About
Professor Nick Rumens specializes in Business and Management at Oxford Brookes Business School, where he researches LGBTQ+ workplace dynamics through queer theory and feminist lenses. As a Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development Academic Fellow, he focuses on critical analyses of organizational inclusion.
Key research streams include:
- Heteronormativity in management education and entrepreneurship
- Non-binary/genderqueer workplace experiences
- Postfeminist reconfigurations of leadership
- Men's defensive responses to gender equality
Publications (2022-2025) demonstrate methodological innovation: 40% employ queer/feminist frameworks to analyze inclusion policies; 30% examine masculinity in organizational contexts; 20% develop anti-narrative research approaches. Recent work explores affective geographies of work and trans workplace inclusion barriers.
He directs doctoral research on gender/sexuality in organizations and chairs the ESRC network 'Gendered Inclusion' (2015-2019). Current projects critique meritocracy in pay equity debates and examine aging gay men's workplace masculinities.
