Event Details

Dr Suzette Dyer, will be visiting The Academy for Gender Equality and Social Justice Research in Organisations from the University of Waikato, Waikato Management School, New Zealand.

As part of the Academy’s research seminar series, Dr Dyer will be presenting her latest work on “Teaching Sexual Harassment: Vulnerabilities, Power and Responsibility”.

This will be a hybrid event.

Suzette is a Senior Lecturer in the Division of Management at Waikato Management School. She has a keen interest in career and management, women’s organisational experiences, and management pedagogy and has been teaching, researching and publishing in these areas for nearly three decades. Some of her work has appeared in the Academy of Management Learning & Education, Management Learning, Journal of Management Education, Organization,and Journal of Management Studies.

In this seminar, Suzette will present a collective autoethnography (co-authored with Fiona Hurd, Mary Simpson, & Gemma Piercy-Cameron) examining the experiences of feeling vulnerable and unsafe while teaching sexual harassment within the management classroom of four women faculty co-author-participants. Spanning over a 12-year period, reflections and analysis are presented in a layered approach interspersing academic commentary with personal vignettes through four phases. Each phase applies a different theoretical lens to analyse our experiences of and pedagogical responses to student hostility, including feminist pedagogy, psychic safety, difficult knowledge, and gender-based violence. This multi-layered analysis suggests structural accounts of sexual harassment trigger a sense of lost agency for students prompting reactions that can be experienced as hostility. The analysis challenges assumptions regarding classroom power dynamics favouring faculty over students and exposes women faculty’s heightened vulnerability to gender-based violence within neoliberal academic work settings. Safe teaching spaces free from violence, we argue, is a fundamental human right, and creating safe spaces is the responsibility of Higher Education management and government.

Please join in person or online:

In Person: LUMS, Lecture Theatre 15

Online via TEAMS:https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/325466377846757?p=GKvlJPUPJYCNKleS9J

Meeting ID: 325 466 377 846 757

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