Experts Meeting: Home and Engaged Fatherhood
Paper: Conditional Fathering: The Ideal Worker, the Paternal Body and the Embodied Limits of Engagement

Professor Caroline Gatrell is based at University of Liverpool Management School.

Caroline’s research centres on employment, health and personal lives, drawing upon the lenses of gender and embodiment to explore and envisage business and management futures in which employees’ work-family lives are improved.

Caroline’s research is published in world-leading management journals including: Journal of Management Studies, Organization Studies; Academy of Management Perspectives; Human Relations; Organizational Research Methods, Journal of Business Ethics, British Journal of Management and International Journal of Management Reviews.

Caroline is Chair of the Chartered ABS Management Committee. Formerly she was General Editor for the Journal of Management Studies and was also, previously, Editor in Chief, International Journal of Management Reviews. She is Fellow of the British Academy of Management; Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Caroline holds the British Academy of Management research medal 2020 and was awarded in 2024 (with Dermot Breslin) AoM Best Qualitative Paper award (Research Methods Division).