Dr. Beverly Dawn Metcalfe

GRM 2011 Workshop: The Role of Business Women in the Economies and Societies of the Arab Region

Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM) School of Environment and Development - University of Manchester

Dr. Beverly Dawn Metcalfe is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Human Resource Development, Centre for Organizations and Development, Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM) University of Manchester, UK. Her research is concerned with two key themes firstly, women’s development in Arab Gulf states, specifically in the sphere of women’s leadership and entrepreneurial development the role of women’s organizations and networks in facilitating empowerment, and secondly, the characteristics and structure of national and education planning frameworks in Gulf states. She has also collaborated on research projects and acted as advisor and consultant on education development and women’s development to numerous Gulf organizations including inter alia Bahrain Ministry of Labour, Bahrain Management Society, the Women’s Branch of Institute of Public Administration (IPA) in Saudi Arabia, as well as several women’s NGOs. She is currently on the Editorial Board of Human Resource Development International (HRDI) and has just compiled a special issue entitled Women, Empowerment and Human Resource Development in Arab Gulf States to be published in HRDI April 2011. In addition, her book with Dr Fouad Mnoumi, Arab Open University, entitled Leadership and Development in the Middle East was published in the summer of 2011 by Edward Elgar publishing.