KOKOT-BLAMEY SENIOR LECTURER IN
DR PATRIZIA
ORGANISATION STUDIES, QUEEN MARY,
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
Navigating women’s career’s Patrizia’s Kokot-Blamey on mobility, opportunity & international experience
Dr Patrizia Kokot-Blamey is a Senior Lecturer in Organisation Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, and her research interests are in gender at work. In her current research, she seeks to better understand the experiences of women undergoing IVF while working. Her broader research interests focus on motherhood, breastfeeding and women’s bodies at work.
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atrizia’s upbringing in Germany was shaped by her young and energetic
parents, who
instilled in her a curiosity for the world beyond national borders. Encouraged to learn multiple
languages, she studied in the Netherlands and the UK before working across Germany, Belgium, and Spain in her twenties, eventually settling in the UK. Reflecting on this international experience, she acknowledges that there are great benefits to being multilingual and having experience of working internationally.
“I have very young parents,” she says. “They were full of
energy during my childhood, and I was always encouraged to look across borders, learn languages, and keep an eye out for opportunities to work abroad. “I grew up in Germany and was able to take French,
Spanish, English, and Dutch lessons as part of our secondary curriculum, which was very lucky. With hindsight, I think that there are costs and opportunities to moving around as well as to staying put, and I appreciate that a bit more now.”
WOMEN & AMBITION: HOW THE PERSONAL & THE PROFESSIONAL INTERSECT Patrizia holds a PhD in Gender Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science and completed a Master’s degree as well as her undergraduate studies in Economics at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Before pursuing an academic career, she worked as a financial journalist reporting on European equities and economics. She believes that although young women today are
encouraged to be ambitious in their education and careers, society fails to prepare them for independence across all aspects of life, particularly in their personal choices. “What strikes me at the moment is that we are not
adequately preparing young women to be independent across domains,” she explains. “We take our private lives for granted and assume that the pieces will come
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