Geraldine Healy is Professor of Employment Relations and Director of Research in the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary, University of London. Geraldine is also Director of the Centre for Research in Equality and Diversity (CRED) a leading international centre in the field of equality, inequalities and diversity.

Geraldine is a specialist in the field of equality and diversity. Her recent work has explored the intersectionality between gender and ethnicity, equality policies and practices, the career development of young black workers and inequalities in low paid and highly qualified health work and a UK/US comparative study of women and trade union leadership. She has published widely in leading international journals and her books include: Diversity, Ethnicity, Migration and Work: International perspectives (2011) with Franklin Oikelome, Equality, Inequalities and Diversity: Contemporary challenges and strategies (2010) with Gill Kirton and Mike Noon (eds), Ethnicity and Gender at Work – Inequalities, Career and Employment Relations (2008) with Harriet Bradley, The Future of Worker Representation (2004) edited with Ed Heery, Phil Taylor, and Women and Union Leadership – a comparative perspective with Gill Kirton, which is forthcoming in 2012.