School of Business and Law

Associate Professor Uma Jogulu

Dr Uma Jogulu is an Associate Professor in Management in the School of Business and Law.

Key Research Areas

• Careers and Human Resource Management
• Migrant and Self-initiated Expatriate
• Diversity and Workplace Inclusion
• Mixed Methods

Biography

Associate Professor Uma Jogulu is an experienced management educator and researcher whose work focuses on workplace inclusion and employee wellbeing. She brings extensive teaching experience across undergraduate and postgraduate programs, with her sustained excellence recognised through the 2025 Vice Chancellor’s Teaching Award for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning.

Uma leads a globally relevant research program with a strong commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion. She is a highly cited scholar with a substantial record of peer‑reviewed publications, including significant international collaboration. Her work informs national and international policy development. She has secured more than $700,000 in competitive research funding, including prestigious bodies such as the Australian Research Council, the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies (SAMS) United Kingdom, and multiple Western Australian government departments.

Uma maintains a sustained commitment to public scholarship, with her work featured in The Conversation, SBS News, The Canberra Times, The Mandarin, and the Institute of Public Administration Australia. She has also successfully led industry‑collaborative research with mining organisations, local government, and private businesses to strengthen inclusion, and belonging in workplaces.

Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy, University of Ballarat, 2008.

Research Outputs

Research Projects

• Effectiveness of using a D&I Capability Maturity Model to advance diversity and inclusion in a large public sector utility, Synergy, Grant, 2026 ‑ 2027, $18,026.
• MARS: Advancing inclusive change in the mining sector of WA: an intersectional perspective, DMIRS: Mental Awareness, Respect and Safety - MARS, Grant, 2025 ‑ 2026, $50,428.
• MARS: Effectiveness of using a D&I Capability Maturity Model to advance diversity and inclusion in the mining sector, DMIRS: Mental Awareness, Respect and Safety - MARS, MARS - Grant, 2024 ‑ 2026, $72,976.
• Promoting workplace gender equity in local government leadership using the ECU Diversity & Inclusion Capability Maturity Model, Department of Communities (WA), Grants for Women Program, 2024 ‑ 2025, $9,925.
• Mental Health – Enhancing workplace mental health during and post-COVID-19, Department of Jobs, Tourism, Science and Innovation, Covid-19 Research Fund, 2020 ‑ 2023, $100,000.
• Diversity and Inclusion Census – DWER , Department of Water and Environmental Regulation (WA), Grant, 2020 ‑ 2021, $13,748.
• Carers Connect to Education and Employment (Try, Test and Learn), Australian Medical Association (WA), Grant, 2020 ‑ 2021, $13,591.
• Ready for the Age of Digital Disruption: Challenges and Opportunities for Outer Suburban SMEs , Edith Cowan University, ECU Industry Collaboration Grant - 2018, 2018 ‑ 2020, $20,000.
• Transforming Underemployed Women Professionals to Mumpreneurs: Exploring Opportunities to Overcome Labour Market Failure and Unlocking Human Capital through Disruptive Innovation, Edith Cowan University, ECU Industry Collaboration Grant - 2017 Open Round, 2017 ‑ 2019, $83,312.
• The Impact of Industry 4.0 and Disruptive Innovation on Future Skills Development: International and Local Perspectives, Edith Cowan University, ECU Collaboration Enhancement Scheme - 2017 Round 1, 2017 ‑ 2018, $7,390.
• Understanding the Impact of Re-Entry and Re-adjustment Experiences on Returnees in Emerging Economies, Edith Cowan University, ECU School of Business & Law 2017 Strategic Research Grant, 2017, $19,978.

Research Student Supervision