Susan Meriläinen is professor of Management at the University of Lapland and PI of the AECED consortium. She is an organization studies scholar whose current projects relate to the embodied and material aspects of feminist knowledge production practices. Together with her like-minded colleagues, Susan has actively sought to counter hegemonic academic practices that (re)produce inequalities and hierarchies in academia by using both conventional (e.g. academic writing, curriculum redesign) and more unconventional (e.g. organizing shared knowledge production retreats in the wilderness) means. Susan’s recently co-edited (with Saija Katila and Emma Bell) Handbook of Feminist Methodologies in Management and Organization Studies is a good example of her passion and commitment to change the taken-for-granted practices in organization studies and academia in general.
Susan’s partner is a bird and butterfly enthusiast, so hiking and nature walks have been a big part of her leisure time for the last 40 years. Susan’s newest hobbies are crocheting and powerlifting.
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