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Mustafa Özbilgin

@ozbilgin.bsky.social
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Professor of Organisational Behaviour, researching equality, diversity, inclusion and social justice at work. Brunel University of London. All my publications are on researchgate.net in open access.

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Cihat Erbil @cihat.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Our latest chapter is out! @ozbilgin.bsky.social, Ebru and I explore how class hierarchies are reproduced through symbolic power and everyday emotions, including shame, gratitude, respectability and invisibility Read it here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Cihat Erbil @cihat.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Our recent paper in EMJ! @ozbilgin.bsky.social and I show how algorithms can close down worker voice, turn fear into self-silencing, and push resistance into informal digital spaces. Read it here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Cihat Erbil @cihat.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Full article: Decolonising #ManagementEducation: mechanisms for challenging colonial legacies and other intersecting hierarchies of knowledge in a neoliberal context www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Sercan Hamza Bağlama, @ozbilgin.bsky.social, Cihat Erbil, and Kurt April #Decolonisation
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Decolonising management education: mechanisms for challenging colonial legacies and other intersecting hierarchies of knowledge in a neoliberal context
Management education remains deeply entrenched in colonial and neoliberal epistemic traditions, and privileges Eurocentric managerial paradigms while marginalising alternative knowledge systems. Th...
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Cihat Erbil @cihat.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Our new paper in GSE! Management education often presents itself as universal, neutral, and objective. Sercan, @ozbilgin.bsky.social, Kurt and I develop a multilevel framework for decolonising management education. Read it here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Cihat Erbil @cihat.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Our commentary is now available online in the JPPM. Kurt, @ozbilgin.bsky.social and I examine the compassion–consumption paradox in pet care markets and discuss what a multispecies approach to inclusion might look like. @amamarketing.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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The Compassion–Consumption Paradox in Pet Care Markets: Rethinking Inclusion in Multispecies Consumer Policy - Cihat Erbil, Kurt April, Mustafa F. Özbilgin, 2026
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Cihat Erbil @cihat.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Our paper in Management Learning! @ozbilgin.bsky.social, Dorothy, Benedetta and I explore how professionals move beyond adaptation in times of polycrisis, recalibrating, withdrawing, and resisting as institutions change around them. Read it here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Cihat Erbil @cihat.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
In our second chapter, @ozbilgin.bsky.social and I examine how leaders can either advance or resist #EDI through their voice, behaviour, and institutional positioning. Read it here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Cihat Erbil @cihat.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Our study (with Sifiso, Kurt, @ozbilgin.bsky.social) in the British Journal of Sociology. We examine how relatability racialises corporate graduate recruitment. Our paper shows how meritocracy may mask the reproduction of labour market exclusion. Read it here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Mustafa Özbilgin @ozbilgin.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Methods for Researching Global Challenges: An Interdisciplinary Guide (Routledge, forthcoming) youtu.be/q6u3JyURxT0
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Methods for Researching Global Challenges: An Interdisciplinary Guide (Routledge, forthcoming)
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Cihat Erbil @cihat.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Global crises demand new research methods. Our new Routledge volume, co-edited with @ozbilgin.bsky.social and Dimitria Groutsis, unites global scholars to rethink justice, inequality, and research for world crises. Here is the opening chapter: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) Research Methods for Global Challenges
PDF | The methods that built modern social science were forged for a world that no longer exists. The methodological repertoire inherited from... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Res...
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Cihat Erbil @cihat.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
HR‐Led Co‐Design for Neuroinclusion: A Critical Pragmatist and Sociotechnical Systems Approach to Transforming Neuronormative Organisations - @ozbilgin.bsky.social, @cihat.bsky.social, Milena Tekeste, Nur Gundogdu- 2026 - HRMJ - @wiley.com onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Disgraceful! The US/Israel just bombed Sharif University in Tehran. This is not only Iran's best university, but also a top 100 global university in the field of Civil Engineering. It has also been a center of student opposition to the Iranian gov And Trump just bombed it...
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
BREAKING: Trump Fires Pam Bondi… for Not Being Corrupt Enough. Our authoritarian president wanted Bondi to prosecute his enemies. She tried – and helped cover up the Epstein scandal, too. It wasn’t enough.
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BREAKING: Trump Fires Pam Bondi… for Not Being Corrupt Enough
Our authoritarian president wanted Bondi to prosecute his enemies. She tried – and helped cover up the Epstein scandal, too. It wasn’t enough.
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Elisabeth Lund Engebretsen 殷莉 @elengebretsen.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
And read the full, brilliant article here: doi-org.ezproxy.uis.no/10.1080/0958...
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Cihat Erbil @cihat.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
#TopCitedArticle @wiley.com Read it here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @ozbilgin.bsky.social, Nur Gundogdu
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Cihat Erbil @cihat.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Full article: Hysteresis in the neoliberal academy: inside- and outside-track academic lives under authoritarian neoliberalism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... with @ozbilgin.bsky.social, Semih Akçomak, Serdal Temel, Elif Karaosmanoğlu, Hülya Ünlü
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Hysteresis in the neoliberal academy: inside- and outside-track academic lives under authoritarian neoliberalism
Hysteresis in the neoliberal academy emerges as inherited academic dispositions collide with performance-driven governance under authoritarian neoliberalism, producing inside- and outside-track aca...
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Mustafa Özbilgin @ozbilgin.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
DEI is finally being dismantled. Or is it? youtu.be/iRddBFsOfS0
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DEI is finally being dismantled. Or is it?
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Mustafa Özbilgin @ozbilgin.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
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Can Artificial Intelligence help address climate migration in a more equitable way?
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Mustafa Özbilgin @ozbilgin.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Cis Hell youtu.be/JY1mvoEfXpE
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Cis Hell
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Cihat Erbil @cihat.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Our recent working paper is out. @ozbilgin.bsky.social, Nur and and I explore neuroinclusion as imagining and designing institutions together. Read it here: researchgate.net/publication/... Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeYb...
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(PDF) Neuroinclusion an imagination: from 'knowing for' to 'imagination with'
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Mustafa Özbilgin @ozbilgin.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
90+ research papers. 90+ short videos. 6–7 minutes each. The Equality Research channel turns peer reviewed social science on equality, diversity and inclusion into short, accessible videos for teaching, presenting and practice. Explore the channel www.youtube.com/@EqualityRes...
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Equality Research explains cutting-edge peer-reviewed research on equality, diversity, inclusion, power, and global challenges in accessible formats for scholars, students, and practitioners. Welcome...
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Mustafa Özbilgin @ozbilgin.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Grenfell, Grand Kartal and the Politics of Disaster Governance youtu.be/ou1s7XRQ0MY
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Grenfell, Grand Kartal and the Politics of Disaster Governance
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Mustafa Özbilgin @ozbilgin.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Equality Research: videos of my research papers since 2021 are available here. Subscribe for daily updates youtube.com/@equalityres... via @YouTube
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Equality Research That Shapes Institutions, Not Just Debates Welcome to this channel. Here I share research that examines power, inequality, institutions, and the politics of recognition in workplac...
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Mustafa Özbilgin @ozbilgin.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
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From Pipe Dream to Meaningful Action: How MNEs Can Deliver Decent Work
Podcast Episode · AIB Journals Podcast · 22 January · 15m
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Mustafa Özbilgin @ozbilgin.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
📢 Excited to share my YouTube channel Equality Research. Subscribe for video presentations of my research publications on equality 👉 www.youtube.com/@EqualityRes...
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Equality Research That Shapes Institutions, Not Just Debates Welcome to this channel. Here I share research that examines power, inequality, institutions, and the politics of recognition in workplac...
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Mustafa Özbilgin @ozbilgin.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
How to deal with the survey-taking AI agents that threaten to upend social science www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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How to deal with the survey-taking AI agents that threaten to upend social science
Researchers need new bot-detection strategies that exploit the limits of human reasoning rather than AI weaknesses.
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Our new paper: toxic experts journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Cihat Erbil @cihat.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Our latest co-authored chapter with @ozbilgin.bsky.social and Dilek Torunoğlu Tinay, Incels at Work: Misogyny as Identity, Labels and Normative Structures of Work, is now published.
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Cihat Erbil @cihat.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Toxic experts in longevity business: A multilevel relational framing of emergence - @aybikemergen.bsky.social, @ozbilgin.bsky.social, Çağla Güven, Cihat Erbil, @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social, 2026, Organization journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Cihat Erbil @cihat.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Disaster governance and inequality-responsive accounting: Grenfell and Grand Kartal fires in times of institutional neglect, spatial justice and the evasion of accountability - @ozbilgin.bsky.social, @cihat.bsky.social, Raffaella Valsecchi @societyandspace.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/0263...
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Disaster governance and inequality-responsive accounting: Grenfell and Grand Kartal fires in times of institutional neglect, spatial justice and the evasion of accountability - Mustafa F Özbilgin, Cih...
Infrastructures are never neutral; they reflect social priorities, institutional silences, and unequal entitlements to safety. This article explores how disaste...
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Cihat Erbil @cihat.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Call for papers: Critical HRM and Evidence-Based Policy: Challenging Power, Inequality and Managerial Orthodoxy www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-pa... @ozbilgin.bsky.social, Kurt, Milena and I inviting submissions that critically examine HRM’s role in power and inequality.
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Cihat Erbil @cihat.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Our new paper has been accepted! Comparing the Grenfell Tower fire (UK) and the Grand Kartal Hotel fire (Turkey), @ozbilgin.bsky.social, Raffaella and I propose Inequality-Responsive Accounting to re-centre justice in disaster governance and accountability Read it here: shorturl.at/NAYpw
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Cihat Erbil @cihat.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Our report is online: A scoping survey of EDI interventions in the energy sector in the UK strathprints.strath.ac.uk/94695/ UK energy sector EDI efforts show strong intent but uneven delivery; @ozbilgin.bsky.social and I call for accountable, collaborative, evidence-driven structural reform.
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A scoping survey of EDI interventions in the energy sector in the UK - Strathprints
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Cihat Erbil @cihat.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Our paper, Red Pill Leadership Behaviours and Discourse Ethics, is now online in the Journal of Business Ethics: rdcu.be/eOkQX @ozbilgin.bsky.social, @aybikemergen.bsky.social
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Cihat Erbil @cihat.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Our recent paper in JBE! @ozbilgin.bsky.social, @aybikemergen.bsky.social and I conceptualise #RedPill leadership (a toxic, male-supremacist ideology opposing equality) as a growing threat to #EthicalLeadership and #Inclusion at work. Read it here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Cihat Erbil @cihat.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Our recent paper has been accepted by Human Resource Management Journal. In this paper, @ozbilgin.bsky.social, Milena, Nur, and I propose an HR-led co-design model with neurodivergent employees to move beyond tokenism towards #neuroinclusion. Read it here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Cihat Erbil @cihat.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Our paper has been accepted by Organization. We show how the longevity sector’s incentives breed toxic experts, and propose a multilevel plan to rebuild trust. @aybikemergen.bsky.social, @ozbilgin.bsky.social, Cagla Guven, and @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Cihat Erbil @cihat.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Our most recent chapter (co-authored with @ozbilgin.bsky.social), Board Diversity as Institutional Competence: Recognition and Misrecognition of Diversity Claims, is out now! You can read it here: researchgate.net/publication/... #EDI #BoardDiversity #Competence #HR #HRM
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Darryl Mott @gamerstavernshow.com · 23/06/2025
In case you can't tell what just happened, JK Rowling instructed her followers to take photos of anyone in a women's restroom who doesn't match their idea of Western feminine beauty standards. Short hair? Thick cheekbones/jaw? Too tall or broad-shouldered? You're now "a man" and will be harassed.
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Cihat Erbil @cihat.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Our call for papers (with @ozbilgin.bsky.social, Kurt April, and Milena Tekeste): Critical Human Resource Management and Evidence-Based Policy: Challenging Power, Inequality and Managerial Orthodoxy emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-pa... @emeraldpublishing.bsky.social #HRM #PersonnelReview
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Critical Human Resource Management and Evidence-Based Policy: Challenging Power, Inequality and Managerial Orthodoxy
A critical exploration of HRM’s role in shaping inequality, governance, and resistance, featuring evidence-based alternatives that centre justice, voice, and inclusive transformation.
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Mustafa Özbilgin @ozbilgin.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Please help us with our survey on EDI practices today.
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Cihat Erbil @cihat.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Mustafa F. Özbilgin (@ozbilgin.bsky.social) and I are inviting contributions for a special issue on Anti-Woke Organising and Resistance to EDI. We look forward to your papers on this significant topic. Deadline: 30 June 2025 #CallForPapers #Woke #EDI Call: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/as...
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Cihat Erbil @cihat.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Our most recent article (co-authored with @ozbilgin.bsky.social, Dimitria Groutsis, @profjv.bsky.social) has been accepted by Population, Space and Place! We theorise how stakeholder power and market logic shape the (de)humanisation of refugee labour. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Mustafa Özbilgin @ozbilgin.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
New Chapter Out: AI, Bias and Marginalisation (co-authored with Aybike Mergen and Nergiz Çetin Kılıç), titled “Artificial Intelligence and Bias Towards Marginalized Groups: Theoretical Roots and Challenges.” is in the volume AI and Diversity in a Datafied World of Work lnkd.in/daGiMM95
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Cihat Erbil @cihat.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Don’t Judge a Leader by Their Reluctance (w/ Bahar Moraligil, Zeynep Aycan, @ozbilgin.bsky.social) researchgate.net/publication/...
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Cihat Erbil @cihat.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Our two papers are out in the latest issue of @hrmjournal.bsky.social Neuronormativity as Ignorant Design in HRM (w/ @ozbilgin.bsky.social, Nur Gündoğdu) researchgate.net/publication/...
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Mustafa Özbilgin @ozbilgin.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Unwise news from AACSB www.ft.com/content/5551...
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Business school group scraps diversity and equity targets
Trump’s campaign against ‘wokeness’ reaches institutions that train next generation of managers and entrepreneurs
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Mustafa Özbilgin @ozbilgin.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
If merit is so important as you say now, why are there so many white cis het incompetent and immature men in positions of power and authority screwing up what people with merit created? Just curious.
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Mustafa Özbilgin @ozbilgin.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Key U.S. agencies, including the FBI, State Department and the Pentagon, have instructed their employees not to comply with cost-cutting chief Elon Musk’s latest demand that federal workers explain what they accomplished last week — or risk losing their job. apnews.com/article/musk...
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Key federal agencies refuse to comply with Musk's latest demand in his cost-cutting crusade
Key federal agencies such as the FBI, State Department and Pentagon have instructed their employees not to comply with Elon Musk’s latest demand that they explain what they accomplished last week or r...
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Mustafa Özbilgin @ozbilgin.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Dutch limit English language degrees monitor.icef.com/2024/10/dutc...
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Dutch government set to restrict English-taught degrees
Dutch education minister Eppo Bruins intends to cut the number of English-language bachelor’s courses offered in the Netherlands, in part to reduce the number of international students in the count
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