Dr Dulini Fernando
Associate Professor
Research Interests
highly skilled work, career, identity, discourse, migration, ethnicity, gender, social mobility
Teaching in 2020-2021
MSc Business
- IB92A0: People and Organisations
- IB9HN0: Research Methodology
Management
- IB98R0: Leading and Managing Change
Undergraduate
- IB3130: Business Studies I
- IB3610: Equality and Diversity
Innovation, Knowledge & Organisational Networks Research Unit, Industrial Relations Research Unit, Organisation & HRM
Email: Dulini.Fernando@wbs.ac.uk / Tel: 024 765 22465 / Room: 2.124
Biography
Dulini holds two BSc degrees from LSE and Lancaster University, a MSc from LSE and a PhD from Loughborough University. She researches on highly skilled individuals' experiences of work and career from a sociocultural lens focusing on understanding barriers, enablers, mechanisms of coping and navigation. Her research has been published in leading Organisation and Management journals and funded by the Midland Innovation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada, Warwick GCRF Catalyst Fund, ESRC IAA NGO Fund, Warwick University Widening participation development fund and the Warwick Business School impact fund. Dulini's research has influenced government policy and organisational practice, and is regularly cited in the media.
Publications
Journal Articles
- Fernando, D. and Kenny, E. (2020) "Negotiating a sense of fit in elite higher education : exploring the identity work of widening participation students", Academy of Management Learning & Education
- Dulini Fernando (2020) "Challenging the cross-national transfer of diversity management in MNCs : exploring the ‘identity effects’ of diversity discourses ", Human Relations
- Fernando, D. and Patriotta, G. (2020) "“Us versus them”: sensemaking and identity processes in skilled migrants’ experiences of occupational downgrading", Journal of World Business, 55, 4, 101109
- Dulini Fernando (2018) "Exploring character in the new capitalism : a study of mid-level academics’ in a British research-intensive university", Studies in Higher Education, 43, 6, 1045-1057
- Fernando, D., Cohen, L. and Duberley, J. (2018) "Navigating sexualised visibility : a study of British women engineers", Journal of Vocational Behavior
- Fernando, D., Cohen, L. and Duberley, J. (2018) "What managers can do to keep women in engineering ", Harvard Business Review
- Fernando, D., Cohen, L. and Duberley, J. (2018) "The problem of visibility for women in engineering, and how they manage it", Harvard Business Review
- Fernando, D. and Prasad, A. (2018) "How managers, coworkers, and HR pressure women to stay silent about harassment", Harvard Business Review
- Fernando, D. and Prasad, A. (2018) "Sex-based harassment and silencing in academia : how people are led to reluctant acquiescence ", Human Relations
- Fernando, D. and Kenny, E. (2018) "Navigating panethnic categorisation in the workplace : a study of British Sri Lankan employees", Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology , 91, 4, 769-797
- Fernando, D., Cohen, L. and Duberley, J. (2018) "What helps? Women engineers' accounts of staying on", Human Resource Management Journal, 28, 3, 479-495
- Croft, C. and Fernando, D. (2018) "The competing influences of national identity on the negotiation of ideal worker expectations : insights from the Sri Lankan knowledge work industry", Human Relations, 71, 8, 1096-1119
- Fernando, D., Cohen, L. and Duberley, J. (2018) "What helps? Women engineers’ accounts of staying on", Human Resource Management Journal, 28, 3, 479-495
- Dulini Fernando (2017) "Advancing interests through informal voice : a study of professional workers in Sri Lanka’s knowledge outsourcing sector", Human Resource Management Journal, 27, 4, 630-647
- Fernando, D. and Cohen, L. (2016) "Poachers and gamekeepers : processes of class-based organizational closure and usurpation in Sri Lanka’s emerging private sector", The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 28, 15, 2184-2207
- Fernando, D. and Cohen, L. (2015) "Exploring career advantages of highly skilled migrants : a study of Indian academics in the UK", The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 27, 12, 1277-1298
- Fernando, D. and Cohen, L. (2014) "Respectable femininity and career agency : exploring paradoxical imperatives", Gender, Work & Organization, Volume 21, Number 2, 149-164
- Fernando, D. and Cohen, L. (2013) "Exploring the interplay between Buddhism and career development : a study of highly skilled women workers in Sri Lanka", Work, Employment & Society, Volulme 27, Number 6, 1021-1038
- Fernando, D. and Cohen, L. (2013) "The rhetoric and reality of home–work harmonization : a study of highly skilled Sri Lankan women from public and private sector organizations", The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 24, 15, 2876-2893
- Dulini Fernando (2012) "A social constructionist perspective of gender stereotyping at work", Gender in Management: An International Journal, 27, 7, 463-481
- Fernando, D. and Cohen, L. (2011) "Exploring the interplay between gender, organizational context and career", Career Development International, 16, 6, 553-571
Book Items
- Fernando, D. and Cohen, L. (2013) "A social constructionist perspective of women’s career development", 5, 137-155, Sense Publishers, Rotterdam
- Fernando, D., Cohen, L. and El-Sawad, A. (2013) "Careers across changing contexts", Prentice Hall, Harlow
Digital Scholarly Resources
- Fernando, D., Cohen, L. and Duberley, J. (2018) "How to help women sustain careers in male-dominated spaces", LSE Business Review
- Dulini Fernando (2018) "The culture of silence that allows sexual harassment in the workplace to continue", The Conversation
- Fernando, D. and Cohen, L. (2014) "Karma may have a role to play in career progression, but it won’t break glass ceilings", The Conversation
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