Dr Juliet Kele
Lecturer in Human Resource Management (HRM)

Profile

Biography

Dr Juliet Kele is a Lecturer in Human Resource Management (HRM) at the University of York. She has previously worked at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, at the University of Birmingham, and at the University of Leeds, where she completed her PhD (ESRC Fellowship).

Juliet was awarded Fellowship of the HEA via the PGCAP route and attained Distinction in her Level 7 Academic Professional Apprenticeship (APA) in 2023. She was nominated for a Teaching Award in the Student Led Teaching Awards 2023 at Northumbria University and received the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence while at Leeds in 2018.

She has a love of languages, stemming from her UG degree at the University of Nottingham.

Departmental roles

EDI Champion for the School for Business and Society

Postgraduate Admissions Tutor (Business and Management)

Programme Leader for the MSc Human Resource Management (starting September 2025)

Research

Overview

Dr Juliet Kele is passionate about conducting research on equality, diversity, and inclusion and specifically, using intersectionality theory to advance our understanding of the lived experience, inequalities and power relations.

Her ongoing research cuts across the following areas:

• Intersecting identities (e.g., gender, race, age, class), discrimination and social justice
• Career progression inequalities
• Inclusive leadership
• Intersectional and inclusive pedagogies
• Creation and structure of organisational cultures, especially within SMEs

Juliet welcomes PhD interest in these areas.

Teaching

Undergraduate

Module lead for MAN00059H - Management in the Twenty-First Century 

Previously: 

Lecturer and seminar tutor for MAN00015I-A - Behaviour in Organisations
Seminar tutor for MAN00059H-A - Management in the Twenty-First Century

Publications

Selected publications

Bader, A. K., Kele, J. & Oehmichen, J. (Accepted/In Press) Flattening the baby bump: An interdisciplinary review of the gendered nature of return-to-work decisions after childbirth. Journal of Management (4*ABS).

Kele, J. & Tomlinson, J. (2026) Diversity without inclusion? Career progression, HRM and capitals in small law firms. Journal of Professions and Organization (2*ABS).

Umeh, C., Kele, J. & Cornelius, N. (2026) Unveiling the ‘Quiet Revocation’: How Organizations Reframe DEI in an Anti-Inclusion Era. Equality, diversity and inclusion: An international journal Special Issue (Invited): Trump 2.0 (2*ABS).

Jarkas, M. & Kele, J. (2026) Challenges and Drivers to Women’s ascent to Leadership in the MENA Pharmaceutical industry. Equality, diversity and inclusion: An international journal (2*ABS).

Kele, J. & Cassell, C. (2023). The face of the firm: the impact of employer branding on diversity, British Journal of Management (4*ABS), 34(2): 692-708.

Kele, J., Cassell, C., Ford, J., & Watson, K. (2022). Intersectional identities and career progression in retail: the experiences of minority-ethnic women, Gender, Work & Organisation (GWO) (3*ABS), 29(4): 1178-1198.

Cassell, C., Watson, K., Ford, J., & Kele, J. (2021). Understanding inclusion in the retail industry: incorporating the majority perspective. Personnel Review (2*ABS), 51(1): 230-250.