Dr Alexia Panayiotou is the UNESCO Co-Chair on Gender Equality at the University of Cyprus, where she is an Associate Professor in Management and Organization Studies in the Department of Business and Public Administration. With extensive NGO experience, Alexia remains passionate about social change, with a particular interest in how alternative forms of organizing and academia can contribute to such goals. Her research interests include critical management pedagogy; gender and work; the gendered construction of ‘excellence’; the representation of management and organizations in popular culture; and organizational space and symbolism. Before joining Tamara, where she is now an Associate Editor, she served as an Associate Editor of the journals Gender, Work and Organization, Management Learning, and the European Management Review.

Dr George Kokkinidis is an Assistant Professor in HRM at the Department of Management, Entrepreneurship and Digital Business, Cyprus University of Technology. His research interests lie in the field of Management and Organisation Studies, drawing inspiration from sociology, philosophy, political theory, and human geography. He is particularly interested in interdisciplinary and qualitative research, specialising in alternative forms of organisation and organising, and the social organisation of space and time. His publications and works in progress are based on collaborations with workers cooperatives, social clinics and solidarity networks. His research interests extend to a range of HRM and management related topics such as employees’ wellbeing, employees’ emotions and attitudes to work. In recent years, he has been involved in major funded projects related to social economy education (funded by the European Commission) and health care (funded by the UKRI-AHRC).

Dr Christiana Tsaousi is a Lecturer in Consumer Culture and the Coordinator of the postgraduate program in Experiential and Digital Marketing Communications at the Department of Communication and Marketing at Cyprus University of Technology. Her research interests focus on consumer culture and how it influences the construction of individual identity. She draws from interdisciplinary fields and focuses on the intersections between culture, fashion, media, sexuality, identity, and gender with consumer behaviour. Her research approach combines methodologies from cultural studies, sociology of consumption, and critical theory. Additionally, she examines the manifestations of fourth-wave feminism in contemporary media culture, analysing how feminist discourses are reproduced, transformed, and incorporated into various forms of media representations and consumer practices.