Maranda Ridgway is a senior lecturer in human resource management with a doctorate in business administration, currently working at Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University. Prior to joining academia, she gained extensive strategic and operational human resource experience from a range of industries, including aviation, engineering consultancy, FMCG, financial services, hospitality, and retail. During her career, she spent five years in the United Arab Emirates, with management responsibility across the Gulf, India, Serbia, and Germany. She can be contacted at [email protected].