Marina Yusupova has joined the Department of Entrepreneurship and Strategy in 2021 to work on the TARGETED-MPI project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. She is a sociologist and gender scholar with a focus on women elite leaders, critical men and masculinity studies and human resource management. She has a PhD from the University of Manchester (2017) and has previously been a postdoctoral researcher at Newcastle University (UK), Aleksanteri Fellow at the University of Helsinki (Finland) and Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Stony Brook University (USA).