معرفی
Kate Sang is Professor of Gender & Employment Studies at Heriot-Watt University's Edinburgh Business School within the School of Social Sciences. She serves as Director of the Centre for the Transformation of Work (launched Nov 2024) and Vice President of the HWU UCU branch, with prior roles including Business Management Research Coordinator and Human Resource Management Group lead.
Her research centers on workplace gender reproduction through intersectional lenses, with current projects including EDICa (£4.19m UKRI), Disability Inclusive Science Careers (EPSRC £494k), and Menstruation Research Network (Wellcome Trust). Key interests span menstrual health, neurodiversity, disability inclusion, migrant academic careers, and academic labor under frameworks of feminism and posthumanism.
Analysis of her 117 publications reveals sustained focus on gender-disability intersections, pandemic impacts on marginalized workers, and institutional EDI policy. Recent outputs (2023-2025) increasingly address neurodivergent menstrual health and autistic workforce inclusion through qualitative and mixed-methods approaches.
- Principals Impact Award PRIME (2021)
- Principal's Research Impact and Engagement Award Winner (2024)
- Research Culture Recognition Award (2024)
- STUC Equality Award (2020)
She supervises PhD projects on equity/diversity (especially gender, menstrual health, disability), with expertise in qualitative methods including participatory action research. Current external roles include Scottish Government advisory work (2018-2020), REF 2021 committee service, and Canadian Research Chairs EDI Committee (2019-2022). She directs the Centre for the Transformation of Work and co-leads industry-funded menopause policy initiatives.
