Helene Ahl

Professor of Business Administration (Learning and Gender)
Department of Education , School of Education and Communication
Presentation Publications

Research

At present Helene Ahl is a professor and researcher at Encell, the National Centre for Lifelong Learning at the School of Education and Communication. Her research projects include work on motivation and adult learning, research on workplace learning, research on integration, and research within feminist theory and entrepreneurship, Embla. At present she is engaged in an EU-project with ten participating countries on women-led innovations in rural areas, (see www.fliara.eu). She is also a Visiting Scholar at Lancaster University Management School. She teaches Gender and Organization at the Human Resources Program, and Feminist Theory to doctoral students. 

Biography

Helene Ahl, born in 1958, received her BSc in Business Administration in 1982, and her Master of Education degree at Lund University in 1984. She then moved to the USA where she received an M.B.A. at the Anderson Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles. Until 1996 she worked at different companies in the USA and in Sweden with marketing, market analysis, advertising, export sales and product development. She received her PhD degree at Jönköping International Business School in 2002. Her award winning thesis is a feminist, critical discourse analysis of research texts on women's entrepreneurship.