Prof Simonetta Manfredi

Organisation

Oxford Brookes Unversity

Job title

Director of the Centre for Diversity Policy Research and Practice

Biography

Simonetta Manfredi is Professor of Equality and Diversity Management and Director of the Centre for Diversity Policy Research and Practice at Oxford Brookes University. In 2014 she led a project funded by the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education and Equality Challenge Unit to research the career trajectories of senior leaders in higher education who are alumni of the Leadership Foundation’s Top Management Programme (TMP). Last year she published a report on Developing Good Practice to Advance Equality in Research Careers which was also funded by the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education. Simonetta’s book on Managing Equality and Diversity (co-authored with Dr Kumra), published by Oxford University Press, received the Charted Management Institute Management Book of the Year Award 2013 (under the management and leadership category). In 2011 she received the outstanding paper award by the Emerald Publisher for her article (co-authored with Professor Liz Doherty) on Improving Women’s Representation in Senior Positions in Universities.