DR SUE
SHORTLAND SENIOR LECTURER
IN HRM AT UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER
Promoting evidence-based decision making
Dr Sue Shortland is bridging the gap between theory and practice in global mobility. During her career across the corporate world, research and teaching, women’s participation in international assignments – important for promotion to senior levels – has edged up such that women now hold 35% of expatriate roles.
A
lifelong advocate for employers and everyone on international
assignments, Sue has
championed what the CIPD is now seeking to embed as one of the profession’s central
tenets: evidence-based decision-making. This is critical now as HR, talent mobility and inclusion are centre of the C-suite agenda. Sue has committed her career to putting facts and peer-reviewed research within people professionals’ reach, including in roles at KPMG and the CBI, as well as academia and publishing. In many ways, Sue’s life’s work has come of age. Combining research and practice around global mobility and inclusion has been a consistent theme all the way through Sue’s career. As is nurturing her own professional development alongside her formal roles. Sue has earned a bachelor’s degree, the CIPD’s HRM Diploma, two masters degrees, a post-graduate Diploma in Higher Education and her PhD in women’s expatriation in the oil and gas sector by extending and applying her knowledge at every stage.
LIFELONG LEARNING IN THEORY AND PRACTICE Sue – the first of her family to go to university – graduated from Cambridge University in the late 1970s. Her first role was at Incomes Data Services (IDS) in the Studies department. This offered Sue a unique insight into hundreds of organisations’ HR practices. It was to prove the foundation for a lifelong career focused on mobility and diversity, equality and inclusion.“I did quite a lot of research then into things like diversity and studies in race relations,” says Sue. “I also examined mobility, which is where some of my early forays into global mobility and diversity came.” After IDS, Sue went on to work for Personnel Executive
as the deputy editor. “Again, there I tended to write on things that were diversity or mobility related.” Her next move was to Industrial Relations Services (IRS), an organisation which offered valuable and robust
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