Research Output per year
Research Output per year
Dr, Professor of Gender & Employment Studies
EH14 4AS
United Kingdom
Accepting PhD Students
PhD projects
Able to supervise projects investigating equality and diversity (especially gender, ethnicity and disability). Particular interests in intersectionality, disability and highly skilled careers, migration, women's careers in the professions, academic labour. I am also interested in supervising students exploring diversity and environmental measures. I specialise in qualitative research, including participatory action research interviews, focus groups and mixed methods research.
Willing to speak to media
Research output per year
My research examines the workplace as the site where gender, and associated inequalities, are reproduced. I am particularly interested in how gender intersects with other categories of difference resulting in complex patterns of (dis)advantage. My current projects include:
Recent projects
Gender, inequality, intersectionality, feminism, disability, professions, poverty, posthumanism
I am the Director of the Centre for Research into Employment, Work and the Professions.
I am member of the Intercultural Research Centre
I am the Director of the Centre for Research Into Employment, Work and the Professions (Launch August 2020). I was the 4th year coordinator responsible for overseeing honours year. Recent administrative roles include Business Management departmental Research Coordinator and the Human Resource Management and Law Group lead.
Between 2010 and 2016 I served on the Executive Committee of the Feminist and Women's Studies Association, latterly as Chair. In 2015 I was a member of the publicity committee of the Sex & Gender group of the American Sociological Association. In addition, I was the SGSSS Dean of Graduate Studies committee as the HWU representative and the PGR co-ordinator for the department of business management
Editorial work. I am currently an Associate Editor of European Management Review (ABS 3), and on the Editorial Board of Work, Employment and Society (ABS 4). In 2015 I launched Heriot Watt's first Open Access journal - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Equality and Diversity (www.ipedjournal.com). I am currently co-editing our first special issue on 'Climate Change and Intersectionality'
Previous Editorial work. Editorial board of Sociological research online, special issues of Construction Management and Economics; Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and Organization (due 2016)
I am HWU's UCU equality officer, serving on the branch committee
Association of Research Managers and Administrators
Jan 2020 → …Canadian Research Chairs Advisory Committee on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Policy
Nov 2019 → Nov 2022REF
2019 → …Scottish Government
2018 → …Scottish Parliament
2017 → …Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Research output: Other contribution
Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
Kate Sang (Invited speaker), Jennifer Remnant (Invited speaker) & James Richards (Speaker)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Kate Sang (Invited speaker), Rebecca Finkel (Organiser), Paula Danby (Invited speaker) & Dasha Grajfoner (Invited speaker)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Kate Sang (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Kate Sang (Invited speaker)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Kate Sang (Speaker) & Thomas Calvard (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Jennifer Remnant, Kate Sang & James Richards
3/07/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
11/03/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
16/06/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
David Bucknall, Theodore B. Henry & Katherine Sang
30/11/18
3 Media contributions
Press/Media: Research