Dulini Fernando (BSc Lancaster, BSc London, MSc LSE and PhD Loughborough) researches on highly skilled careers, diversity and inclusion, workplace mistreatment and work in multinational organizations. Her research has been published in an array of business and management journals (including the Academy of Management Learning and Education, Academy of Management Discoveries, Harvard Business Review, Human Relations, the Journal of World Business, the Journal of Vocational Behaviour and the Human Resource Management Journal) and funded by the UKERC, ESRC, Midland Innovation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada, GCRF, EDICa Causus and IAA. In 2021, Dulini was chosen as a British Academy Mid-Career Fellow to examine intersectionality in the careers of skilled refugees. Dulini’s research has influenced government policy and organizational practice and is cited in international media. Dulini worked at Warwick Business School from 2013 to 2021 as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Reader and at Manchester Metropolitan University from 2021 to 2022 as Professor of Decent Work and Productivity and Director of the Centre for Decent Work and Productivity. Dulini was external examiner for the BSc Economics and Management Program, University of Oxford from 2018-2021.

The work and career experiences of women with 
mental health issues in STEM research and innovation (2024)

EDICa Caucus funded by UKRI & British Academy (Principal Investigator)

With  Elina Meliou (Brunel) and Krystal Wilkinson (MMU)

The careers of highly skilled Indian corporate expatriates in the Netherlands (2023-24)

British Academy Small Grant (Principal Investigator)

With Mehdi Boussebaa (Glasgow) and Nidhi Bisht (MDI Gurgaon)

Ethnic minority careers in the energy sector (2023-24)

UKERC Networking fund (Co-Investigator)

With Mehreen Gul (Herriot Watt University Scotland)

Exploring minority ethnic doctors' career transitions in medicine: a life course approach (2022-25)

ESRC Transforming Working Lives grant (Co-Investigator)

With Etlyn Kenny, Joanne Duberley and Christian Darko from University of Birmingham

Minoritized Ethnic heritage employees’ progression to Senior Leadership (2022-25)

Greater Manchester Housing Project Knowledge Transfer Partnership (Co-Investigator)

 With Julia Rouse, Manchester Metropolitan University UK

Highly skilled refugees’ experiences in the UK workplace (2021-23)

British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship 

With Renaisi London

Highly skilled women’s careers in the Finance Industry (2020-24)

With Invesco Ltd and a doctoral candidate from Warwick Business School

2022                   

Carol Woodhams, Dulini Fernando and Yuanyuan Huo  “Migrant doctors and reducing pay gaps” Work in Progress Sociology. June 30^th 2022.

2018                   

Fernando, D., Cohen, L. and Duberley, J. "The problem of visibility for women in engineering, and how they manage it", Harvard Business Review. October 10^th 2018.

2018                   

Fernando, W. D. A. and Prasad, A. “How Managers, Coworkers, and HR Pressure Women to Stay Silent about Harassment”, Harvard Business Review. July 13, 2018

2018                   

Fernando, W. D. A., Cohen, L. and Duberley, J. "What managers can do to keep women in engineering ", Harvard Business Review.

2019                   

Dulini Fernando “The culture of silence that allows harassment in the workplace to continue”. FT Online. Tuesday January 08.

2018                   

Fernando, D., Cohen, L. and Duberley, J. "How to help women sustain careers in male-dominated spaces", LSE Business Review

2018                   

Dulini Fernando "The culture of silence that allows sexual harassment in the workplace to continue", The Conversation

2018                   

Dulini Fernando “The rhetoric and reality of the work life balance agenda” FT Online. Wednesday March 28.

2018                   

Dulini Fernando “Highly-skilled women, career progression and respectable femininity” FT Online. Wednesday January 10.

2014                   

Fernando, D. and Cohen, L. "Karma may have a role to play in career progression, but it won’t break glass ceilings", The Conversation

Dulini's research has also been noted in the Guardian, Times Higher education, The HR reporter, Business Inquirer, The Irish Examiner, Globe and Mail (Canada), Hindustan Times (India: 16.27m visitors/month), Channel News Asia, HR Grapevine magazine, Business Life magazine, Real Business, Growth Business, Rathbones Review, People Development and Dhaka Tribune (Bangladesh).

Highly skilled career progression, diversity, inclusion, voice, silencing, migration, widening participation, gender, minority ethnicity and religion in the workplace. Interdisciplinary research methods.