Maranda Ridgway

Role

Dr Maranda Ridgway is Associate Professor of People and Inclusion and Co-Director of Research Impact.

Career overview

Maranda brings in-depth professional and academic discipline knowledge as a Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development Fellow. Committed to impacting policy and practice, Maranda’s research is informed by experience as a senior HR professional. She has led complex, multi-faceted change programmes across national boundaries, including acquisitions, business transformations and new entity inceptions in multi-national organisations.

Maranda’s research interests traverse intersectionality, global mobility and human resources. Notable projects include investigating intersectional inequality in international employment contexts and the impact of gendered language on women’s career advancement. Maranda also served as the lead Co-Investigator on a complex, multi-disciplinary analysis of the UK Government's consultation to reform the Gender Recognition Act (2004) in 2018. She led the qualitative analysis of an open-text survey of 102,000 responses, comprising 37 million words, leading to the publication of the Reform of the Gender Recognition Act: Analysis of Consultation Responses presented to Parliament by the Minister for Women and Equalities in 2020.

External activity

Maranda serves as the HRM Associate Editor for the European Management Journal, Co-Track Chair for the British Academy of Management (BAM) HRM Special Interest Group,  a member of the British Academy of Management Peer Review College and a member of the editorial review board for Gender in Management. She is also a Licensed Career Counsellor and Coach.

Maranda also volunteers for People in Harmony and is a volunteer mentor for Cara's Fellowship Programme.