Prof. M.C.L. van den Brink (Marieke)

Professor - Radboud Social Cultural Research
Professor - Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies

Chair : Gender and Diversity

Contact

marieke.vandenbrink@ru.nl
024-3612007

Visiting address

Thomas van Aquinostraat 4
6525 GD NIJMEGEN

Postal address

Postbus 9104
6500 HE NIJMEGEN

Working days Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

Marieke van den Brink is Professor of Gender and Diversity at the faculty of Social Sciences and the director of Radboud Interdisciplinary Gender and Diversity Studies in which 100+ researchers from several faculties and disciplines collaborate.

The central themes of her research and teaching are gender and diversity in organizations, organizational learning and change, power and resistance and she links these themes with macro developments such as migration, new public management and austerity. She studies these subjects using an innovative mixed methods approach, with a focus on qualitative techniques such as organizational ethnographies and discourse analysis. With her NWO-Veni grant, Marieke performed a large-scale case study on organizational learning and change towards diversity, analyzing the strategies, networks and resources that change agents at the micro-processual level use to develop the capacity of an organization to change.

Together with Professor Benschop, she is currently the principal investigator of the EU FP7 GARCIA project ('Gendering the Academy and Research: Combating Career Instability and Asymmetries'), which addresses the implementation of interventions in European Universities and research centers to counter the gender inequality. She has been a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics, University of British Colombia in Vancouver, Northeastern University in Boston, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Institute of Technology in Stockholm Sweden, and University of Örebro, Sweden.

She received her Master degree in Organizational Anthropology at the Free University Amsterdam (cum laude) and my PhD in Management Sciences at the Radboud University Nijmegen (cum laude).

In 2017, she will organize the Summerschool Gender & Diversity: http://www.ru.nl/radboudsummerschool/courses/2017/gender-diversity-core-concepts-society-science/

Tags: gender and diversity, organisational change, diversity management, inclusion, networking, leadership, micropolitics, power and resistance, critical management studies, feminist interventions

Research theme

Gender and diversity in organizations

Research group

Radboud Gender & Diversity Studies

Publications

Key publications

De Vries, J. & M. van den Brink (2016). Transformative gender interventions: Linking and extending theory and practice using the ‘bifocal approach’. Equality Diversity Inclusion. Vol. 35 Iss: 7/8, pp.429 - 448. Full text
Van den Brink, M., C. Holgersson & S. Linghag (2016). Inflating and downplaying strengths and weaknesses. Practicing gender in the evaluation of potential managers and partners. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 32, 1, 20-32. Full text
Van den Brink, M. & Y. Benschop (2014). Practicing Gender in Academic Networking: The role of gatekeepers in professorial recruitment. Journal of Management Studies, 51 (3), 460–492. Full text
Van den Brink, M. & L. Stobbe (2014). The support paradox: Overcoming dilemmas in gender equality programs, Scandinavian Journal of Management. 30 (2), 163–174. Full text
Van den Brink, M. & Y. Benschop (2012), Gender practices in the construction of academic excellence: Sheep with five legs, Organization, 19 (4), 507-524. Full text

Publication lists

Research grants and prizes

Projects

2016 - Inclusion in organizations. Organizations are increasingly divers in term of gender, ethnicity and class, especially in low-skilled-labour (LSL) organizations. This study examines how these organizations deal with its diversity in their workforce and how they create inclusive, safe and productive working environments.
2016 - Gender practices in the appointment process of women on boards (funded by the Ministry of Eduction). More information
2013 - Gendering the Academy and Research: combating career instability and asymmetries (EU FP7 Garcia/PI). This international comparative research project (funded by the EU) examines how gender affects the career possibilities of academics in an era of austerity, new managerialism and globalization. It shows how the economic recession is creating a turbulent environment for higher education systems which poses new challenges for universities and academics. More information
2011 - Sustainable change towards diversity (VENI grant/PI). This project was a scale case study research on organizational learning and change towards diversity. This research analyzed the strategies, networks and resources used by change agents at the micro-processual level to develop the capacity of an organization to change.
2009 - Gender practices in the recruitment and selection of top appointments Dutch Police Force. More information

Teaching

Ancillary activities

About

Marieke van den Brink conducts research into gender and diversity within organisations, including those within the scientific community. She specifically researches the existing opportunities and the obstacles that prevent women or persons of colour from being excluded from the labour market.