EQUALITY FOR EVERY WOMAN AND GIRL
- AT WORK
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Dr Varuni Wimalasiri
University of Aberdeen
Research outputs
Reports and research publications
Wimalasiri, V., Bovingdon, R. and Shrivastava, M (Forthcomming) Gender-Work-Identity conflict and perceived equality at the job-level and implications for diversity and inclusion. European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology Congress (EAWOP, 2023)
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Wimalasiri, V (2022) Displacement-Plurality (D-P) in women refugees and its influence on work seeking and engagement during settlement, and implications for workplace diversity practice: a reflective and critical review and call for research. Personnel Review.
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Wimalasiri, V. in partnership with Plymouth City Council (2021) Plymouth’s approach to enabling refugee women into employment and the government action required to prevent ongoing, sustained poverty and isolation within this population. Sussex University-Plymouth City Council.
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Wimalasiri V. (2020) Ethical and Methodological dilemmas in research with Refugee populations: At the intersection of Gender, Displacement and Work (British Academy of Management, Conference on the Cloud, Developmental paper track -methods)
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Wimalasiri V. (2020) Factors that influence women refugees vocational choices of women refugees during resettlement: An appreciative and critical review and a framewokr to guide future research. (British Academy of Management, Conference on the Cloud, Developmental paper track -methods)
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Wimalasiri V. (2019) The role of Business Schools in creating a fairer minded society: The Case of raising the real stories about Refugees/ Asylum seekers and work to Business audiences. AACSB International conference and meeting, Edinburgh, 2019. In: 2019 AACSB International conference and annual meeting, Edinburgh, 2019. 14-16 April 2019 Edinburgh.
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Wimalasiri,V. and Phatak, A. (2017) The fragile flavours of Hope (Article on resilience and progress of women resettling in post-war Sri-Lanka). Resurgence. (Magazine covering issues of Activism and Ecology in the UK). March/ April 2017.
Funding and projects:
ESRC IAA fund (Sussex University) (2021-2022)
Food as identity and food as enterprise: Assisting economic empowerment of women refugees through including intersectionality lead start-up strategies for food-related enterprise.
Wimalasiri, V. Bessant, J. Vignoles, V. and Industry Partners – Diversity Business Incubator.
Wimalasiri (2017-2018) The Lloyds Bank Social entrepreneurs start up programme, in partnership with the school of social entrepreneurs (SSE) and jointly funded by the Big Lottery (2018). Woman's Work: Reconnecting women refuges back to work. LPA-000 000 6543
Wimalasiri (2018-2019) Economic and personal empowerment of women refugees and asylum seekers in work contexts. GCRF-QR funding. Bournemouth University.