Work Identity and Gendered Liminal Spaces in Inclusive Leadership Development: A Higher Education Case Study

Nicholds, T., Becker, S. and Jackaman, R. (2025) Work Identity and Gendered Liminal Spaces in Inclusive Leadership Development: A Higher Education Case Study. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Leadership Studies, 6 (3). pp. 119-141. ISSN 2717 -1426

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Abstract

We take an organisation -wide approach to exploring the complexities of gender and leadership at work, with a focus on action. Within the context of a university, with an Anglican Foundation, the paper provides a specific workplace lens. The research is central to a wider project, designed to further the organisation’s understanding of leadership and gender, to be better placed to promote inclusion, facilitate change, enable shared learning and support knowledge transfer. As part of a participatory, qualitative design, semi structured interviews were conducted. Interviews involved 17 participants, aged over 18 years, gender identities consisted of 14 females and 3 males, from within professional and academic services within the University. Framework Analysis was employed as it lends itself to a team approach and further enabled a collaborative exploration of findings. The main findings were centred around liminal spaces in leadership development and the gendered nature of leadership. These findings have informed the development of recommendations to ensure organisational engagement in the development, and therefore the sustainability, of action taken.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: Published by Journal of Higher Education Policy And Leadership Studies in 2025. This is the final published version of an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC license. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Depositing User: Thomasin Nicholds
Date Deposited: 16 Oct 2025 10:35
Last Modified: 16 Oct 2025 10:35
URI: https://lbro.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/1274

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