Meet Dr. Kate Grosser, New Visiting Fellow with the VELUX Chair in Corporate Sustainability

To the VELUX Chair’s great pleasure, Kate Grosser has been appointed a visiting fellow at CBS for spring 2016. Funded by the VILLUM Foundation, the VELUX Chair aims at creating a thriving context for research located at the intersection of private enterprise, public policy and civil society. Fellowship is one of its key activities and highly qualified and topic-relevant scholars such as Dr. Grosser are a precious resource.

With a background as a Social Anthropologist (BA, Cambridge) and Politics of the World Economy (London School of Economics, Masters), Kate Grosser chose to return to academia in 2003 to work on CSR and Corporate Governance fields from a gender perspective.

“My research has examined the relevance of gender mainstreaming theory to CSR, critically investigated the gender content of corporate social reporting and stakeholder accountability processes, and, more recently, begun to explore pluralism within CSR as a process of governance from a feminist perspective.” (http://www.latrobe.edu.au/business/about/staff/profile?uname=KGrosser)

After obtaining her PhD in CSR from Nottingham University in 2011, she now focuses on bringing critical “insights from gendered organization studies to the field of CSR”, in particular the issue of corporate accountability for the gender equality impacts of business.

Dr. Kate Grosser’s curriculum also includes a strong wealth of consulting experience at e.g. The Global Reporting Initiative, UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights, UNIFEM, Oxfam International, Plan International, European Academy for Business in Society.

Once again, it goes without saying that such a hybrid and rich profile is more than welcome at our CBS research environment.