Jeff Hearn

• Professor of Sociology, University of Huddersfield
• Professor emeritus, Hanken School of Economics

Jeff Hearn is originally from London, and studied Geography at Oxford, Urban Planning and Sociology at Oxford Brookes, and Organisation Studies at Leeds Universities, before teaching sociology, social policy, organisations and groups, men and masculinities, and social theory at Bradford University. It was at Bradford that he also completed in 1986 his PhD on social planning, social theory and theories of patriarchy, and later ended 21 years working there as head of department. In 1995 he moved to a Faculty of Social Sciences at Manchester University based in Social Policy, the first Professsorial Research Fellow (full professor) awarded in the faculty.

He moved to his Professorship of Sociology at the University of Huddersfield in 2003.

Hearn has been Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Research Fellow, Visiting Professor, Professor and the like at universities in Bradford, Manchester, Linköping, and elsewhere. He is also: Professor Emeritus at Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, Finland; Senior Professor, Human Örebro University, Sweden; and Extraordinary Professor in Women's and Gender Studies, University of Western Cape, South Africa. He is UK Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences, an honorary doctor in Social Sciences, Lund University, and formerly Professor Extraordinarius, University of South Africa.

Jeff Hearn is a member of the British Sociological Association and the International Sociological Association He has been co-editor of Men and Masculinities, and is currently co-editor of Norma: The International Journal for Masculinity Studies, and co-managing editor of Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality, and associate editor and board member of many other journals.

Having worked over many years in gender studies, organisation and management studies, social policy, and sociology, he has a broad critical approach to questions of social and political change. However, the area he is probably most known for is research in the sub-field of critical studies on men and masculinities. There are two other major areas he has worked on for a long time, namely, organisations, management and work, with special emphasis on gender, sexuality, diversity and intersectionality in and around organisations; and violence and violations, especially men's violence to women and children. Beyond those areas, his research interests are rather wide and include: postcolonialism and transnationalisations; social theory, methodology, material-discursive analysis; autoethnography, memory work; information society and ICTs; cultural studies; embodiment and ageing. His recent research focuses mainly on transnationalisations, men and masculinities, age, sexuality, violence, work, and organisations. The book, Rethinking Transnational Men, co-edited with Marina Blagojević and Katherine Harrison, was published 2013 with Routledge, and the authored book, Men of the World: Genders, Globalizations, Transnational Times in 2015 with Sage on these issues. A collective book based on memory work with older men, Men's Stories for a Change, was published in 2016, with the US publisher Common Ground Publishing, and Aging & Society. The book, Revenge Pornography: Gender, Sexuality, and Motivations, with Matthew Hall, was published with Routledge 2017.

Other recent books include: Engaging Youth in Activist Research and Pedagogical Praxis: Transnational Perspectives on Gender, Sex, and Race, edited with Tamara Shefer, Kopano Ratele and Floretta Boonzaier, Routledge; Age at Work, with Wendy Parkin for Sage; The Unsustainable Institutions of Men, edited with Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila and Marina Hughson Blagojević, with Routledge; Knowledge, Power and Young Sexualities, with Tamara Shefer, 2022, Routledge; Digital Gender-Sexual Violations, with Matthew Hall and Ruth Lewis, 2023, Routledge; Routledge Handbook on Men, Masculinities and Organizations, 2024; Routledge International Handbook of Feminisms and Gender Studies, 2025; Interconnecting the Violences of Men, 2025, all three co-edited, Routledge. He co-authored, with Ann Phoenix, Kopano Ratele and Tamara Shefer, the MOOC, 'Men, Boys and Masculinities', University of Iceland/edX, 2024 (, and has recently co-edited, with Kadri Aavik, Martin Hultman and Tamara Shefer, a double special issue of NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies, 2025-2026, on 'Men, masculinities and the planet at the end of (m)Anthropocene'. The collection, Men and Masculinities at the Margins: Decolonial and Intersectional Perspectives, co-edited with Sofia Aboim and Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila, is planned for publication with Routledge, autumn 2026.

• –present Professor emeritus, Hanken School of Economics
• –present Senior Professor, Örebro University
• –present Professor of Sociology, University of Huddersfield
• –present Extraordinary Professor in Women's and Gender Studies, University of Western Cape, South Africa

• 2016 Lund University, Honorary PhD
• 1986 University of Bradford, PhD

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