Mustafa Özbilgin
@ozbilgin.bsky.social
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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#Robots and #AI are reshaping education. But what does this mean for students, teachers and human judgement? @ozbilgin.bsky.social and I introduce a framework centred on recognition, accountability and authority. Better technology needs better #pedagogy. Read it here: tinyurl.com/4x9jde8z
(PDF) Robots and AI in the classroom: The Recognition-Accountability-Authority (RAA) framework for AI-mediated pedagogy
PDF | Robots and AI systems are rapidly becoming embedded in the routine organisation of teaching, assessment and interaction in higher education,... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...
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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/...
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/...
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
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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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/...
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/...
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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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/...
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/...
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/...
Methods for Researching Global Challenges: An Interdisciplinary Guide (Routledge, forthcoming) youtu.be/q6u3JyURxT0
Methods for Researching Global Challenges: An Interdisciplinary Guide (Routledge, forthcoming)
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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/...
(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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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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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...
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.
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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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
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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DEI is finally being dismantled. Or is it? youtu.be/iRddBFsOfS0
DEI is finally being dismantled. Or is it?
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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...
(PDF) Neuroinclusion an imagination: from 'knowing for' to 'imagination with'
PDF | Contemporary approaches to neuroinclusion in education, employment, and public policy remain dominated by technocratic and compliance-oriented... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...
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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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Grenfell, Grand Kartal and the Politics of Disaster Governance youtu.be/ou1s7XRQ0MY
Grenfell, Grand Kartal and the Politics of Disaster Governance
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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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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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How to deal with the survey-taking AI agents that threaten to upend social science www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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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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.
