Dr Steff Worst

Assistant Professor

School: Newcastle Business School

I’m a Senior Lecturer in the department of Leadership & Human Resource Development at Northumbria University. My PhD explored lesbian and gay experiences of expectations on gender and sexuality at work. I am passionate in researching the day-to-day life of LGBT* people, particularly the potential of queer and non-normative identities to challenge and broaden embedded modes of thinking.

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

I’m a Senior Lecturer in the department of Leadership & Human Resource Development at Northumbria University. My PhD explored lesbian and gay experiences of expectations on gender and sexuality at work. I am passionate in researching the day-to-day life of LGBT* people, particularly the potential of queer and non-normative identities to challenge and broaden embedded modes of thinking.

Key Publications

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Embedding diversity, inclusivity, and democracy in the classroom, Kele, J., Worst, S. 20 May 2025, Handbook of Inclusive Learning and Teaching in Business and Management, Cheltenham, Glos, Edward Elgar
Inconvenient Academic Workers? Collective (Re)humanisation through the Dialogue of a Freirean Reading Circle, Gatto, M., Tracey, H., Callahan, J., Worst, S. 23 Sep 2024, In: Culture and Organization
Queer analysis, O'Shea, S., Worst, S. 14 Nov 2023, Handbook of Feminist Research Methodologies in Management and Organization Studies, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar
From Chess to Queergaming: ‘Play’ing with and disrupting heteronormative assumptions in the performance of gender and sexual orientation, Worst, S., O'Shea, S. 19 Oct 2020, In: Human Resource Development International
Perceptions of LGBT issues in public sector trade unions - a comparison of the views of some UK and German trade unionists, Worst, S., Abbott, S. Nov 2008, Becoming or Unbecoming? Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Research in the 21st Century