Dr Gráinne Kelly is a Senior Lecturer in Organisation, Work and Leadership at Queen’s Business School, Queen’s University Belfast. With over a decade of experience as an educator and researcher, she has always been passionate about understanding the lived experiences of diverse social groups, recently focusing on how age and gender shape individuals’ experiences in organisational and entrepreneurial contexts. Dr Kelly’s research spans a wide variety of organisational contexts from global corporations to local SMEs and is published in top-tier journals such as Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Work, Employment and Society, Technovation, and the Human Resource Management Journal. Her research not only contributes to academic scholarship but also offers practical, evidence-based guidance for organisations seeking to improve inclusion and equity. She regularly presents her work at leading UK and international conferences and contributes to practitioner-facing platforms such as Women in Business and Business Eye. Since joining Queen’s in 2013, Dr Kelly has led the development of inclusive, and practice-relevant curricula across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. As Director of the MSc HRM Programme at Queen’s Business School, she prepares students to think critically and act responsibly, equipping them to become HR professionals who lead ethically, inclusively, and sustainably in today’s complex and dynamic workplaces.