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Finland
2025
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Social Sciences and Humanities
Sweden
2022

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
66
Citations
20814
World Ranking
958
National Ranking
12

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Finland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Sweden Leader Award
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration

Overview

Jeff Hearn is affiliated with the Hanken School of Economics in Finland. Their research work is primarily situated within the Social Sciences, with a significant focus on Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science, and Health. Subfields in their research also include Political Science and International Relations, as well as Clinical Psychology.

The main topics covered in Hearn's work encompass a range of issues related to gender and social dynamics:

  • Gender, Feminism, and Media
  • Gender Politics and Representation
  • Gender Roles and Identity Studies
  • Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Gender Diversity and Inequality
  • Gender, Security, and Conflict
  • Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology

They have published extensively in various academic journals, with frequent publication venues including:

  • Sociology Compass
  • NORMA
  • Gender Work and Organization
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Global Discourse

Some of Jeff Hearn's recent papers are:

  • From Gender Regimes to Violence Regimes: Re-thinking the Position of Violence, 2020, Social Politics International Studies in Gender State & Society
  • Violence Regimes: A Useful Concept for Social Politics, Social Analysis, and Social Theory, 2022, Theory and Society
  • The case for Interdisciplinary Crisis Studies, 2020, Global Discourse (by Annika Bergman-Rosamond)
  • Undoing the 'Nordic Paradox': Factors affecting rates of disclosed violence against women across the EU, 2021, PLoS ONE (by Anne Laure Humbert)
  • Motherhood 2.0: Slow Progress for Career Women and Motherhood within the 'Finnish Dream', 2021, Work Employment and Society (by Charlotta Niemistö)

Jeff Hearn has collaborated frequently with a group of co-authors, including:

  • Liisa Husu
  • Matthew W. Hughey
  • Enrico Maria Piras
  • Deborah Carr
  • Amy Kroska

In addition to articles, Hearn has contributed to book publications, including a work published by Unisa Press titled "Towards A Theology of HIV/AIDS" (2020).

Among professional recognitions, Jeff Hearn has been named a Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • From Hegemonic Masculinity to the Hegemony of Men

    Jeff Hearn

  • The Violences of Men: How Men Talk About and How Agencies Respond to Men′s Violence to Women

    Jeff Hearn

  • Naming Men as Men: Implications for Work, Organization and Management

    David L. Collinson;Jeff Hearn

  • Handbook of studies on men & masculinities

    Michael S. Kimmel;Jeff Hearn;R. W. Connell

  • Sex At Work: The Power and Paradox of Organization Sexuality

    Jeff Hearn;Wendy Parkin

  • The Gender of Oppression: Men, Masculinity, and the Critique of Marxism

    Jeff Hearn

  • Men In The Public Eye

    Jeff Hearn

  • Hegemonic masculinity: combining theory and practice in gender interventions.

    Rachel Jewkes;Robert Morrell;Jeffery Hearn;Jeffery Hearn;Jeffery Hearn;Emma Lundqvist

  • Is masculinity dead? A critical account of the concepts of masculinity and masculinities

    Jeff Hearn

  • Gender, Sexuality and Violence in Organizations: The Unspoken Forces of Organization Violations

    Jeff R Hearn;Pauline Wendy Parkin

  • The Blackwell encyclopedia of sociology

    Michel Bourdeau;George Ritzer

  • The sexuality of organization.

    Larry M. Lance;Jeff Hearn;Deborah L. Sheppard;Peta Tancred-Sheriff

  • Gender and Organizations: A Selective Review and a Critique of a Neglected Area

    Jeff Hearn;P. Wendy Parkin

  • Investigating recovery from stroke: a qualitative study.

    George Dowswell;John Lawler;Therese Dowswell;John Young

  • Hegemonic masculinity and beyond : 40 years of research in Sweden

    Jeff Hearn;Marie Nordberg;Kjerstin Andersson;Dag Balkmar

  • European Perspectives on Men and Masculinities: National and Transnational Approaches

    Jeff Hearn;Keith Pringle;Keith Pringle;Keith Pringle;Marie Nordberg;Iva Šmídová

  • Gender and Management: New Directions in Research and Continuing Patterns in Practice

    Adelina Broadbridge;Jeff Hearn

  • Men as Managers, Managers as Men: Critical Perspectives on Men, Masculinities and Managements

    David L. Collinson;Jeff Hearn

  • Men, Masculinities and Social Theory

    Jeff Hearn;D.H.J. Morgan

  • Researching others: epistemology, experience, standpoints and participation

    Barbara Fawcett;Jeff Hearn

  • European Perspectives on Men and Masculinities

    Jeff Hearn;Keith Pringle

  • Sexuality of organization

    Jeff Hearn;Deborah L. Sheppard;Peta Tancred-Sheriff;Gibson Burrell

Frequent Co-Authors

David L. Collinson
David L. Collinson Lancaster University
Robert Morrell
Robert Morrell University of Cape Town
Michael S. Kimmel
Michael S. Kimmel Stony Brook University
Barbro Wijma
Barbro Wijma Linköping University
Jennie Popay
Jennie Popay Lancaster University
Deevia Bhana
Deevia Bhana University of KwaZulu-Natal
Raewyn Connell
Raewyn Connell University of Sydney
Rachel Jewkes
Rachel Jewkes South African Medical Research Council
Andrew Stirling
Andrew Stirling University of Sussex
Susan W. White
Susan W. White University of Alabama

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