Rate My Professor Alison Pullen

Alison Pullen is Professor of Gender, Work and Organization in the Department of Management at Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University, Australia. She holds a Master's Degree in Organisation Development and a PhD in Management. With more than ten years of teaching experience at Macquarie University, she approaches the classroom as a collaborative, non-hierarchical space to foster student growth, critical thinking, and ethical practices in business and society. As unit convenor for Managing People: Leading Ethical and Inclusive Futures, she co-developed an ethical approach to understanding people-organization relationships with colleague Grant Michelson, emphasizing micro-interventions for broader societal impact.

Alison's research analyzes and intervenes in the politics of work related to gender discrimination, identity politics, and organizational injustice. Her contributions extend across organization theory, gender studies, and management studies, covering feminist theorizing, equality regimes, corporeal ethics, and leadership diversity. She is a prolific scholar with over 50 journal articles, 28 book chapters, and numerous edited volumes. Key publications include 'Feminist theorizing as collective practice: staying with the art of reading' (2026, with A. V. Ystebø, A. K. Lund, A. Risberg, C. Wigren, E. Le Ber, E. Lindell, J. Helin, T. Salmela, T. Sendlhofer, and Y. Benschop), 'Repressive equality regimes: how diversity, equality and inclusion initiatives constrain equality and conceal politics at work' (2026, with C. McEwen and C. Rhodes), 'Corporeal ethics' (2025, with C. Rhodes), 'Corporeal solidarity' (2025, with C. Rhodes), and the edited book 'Writing Differently' (2020, with J. Helin and N. Harding). Other significant works encompass 'Writing as Labiaplasty' (2018) and 'Bits of Organization' (2009, edited with C. Rhodes). Alison serves as Joint Editor-in-Chief of Gender, Work and Organization, Associate Editor of Organization, and editorial board member of Organization Studies, among other journals. In 2023, she received the British Academy of Management Research Medal for her impactful scholarship.