""

Mahima Mitra

Senior Lecturer in Organisation Studies

  • Mahima.Mitra@sbs.ox.ac.uk

Saïd Business School
University of Oxford
Park End Street
Oxford
OX1 1HP

Profile

Mahima Mitra is a Senior Lecturer in Organisation Studies, with special reference to Inclusion.

She is also an Executive Coach on the School’s MBA Leadership Coaching Programme.

During the early stages of her career, Mahima worked for the World Bank in India. Between 2018 and 2022, she served as a researcher co-investigator at the Saïd Business School on a Wellcome Trust-funded study examining professional identity development of under-represented academics. More recently, from 2022 to 2024, she worked as a Managing Consultant, advising UK public sector clients across a range of strategy, economic and policy areas.

Expertise:

  • Organisational EDI
  • Work, identity and identification
  • Responsible leadership
  • Organisational prestige
  • Diversity in leadership
  • Evidence-based policy and strategy

Mahima completed her MPhil and DPhil in Social Policy at the University of Oxford. She also holds a BSc and MSc in Human Development & Childhood Studies from the University of Delhi, India. 

Research

Mahima’s research focuses on the interactions occurring at the micro-macro interface in organisations, and how these impact a professional’s sense of self.

Her current work examines:

  • Individuals’ socio-emotional experience at work, particularly in relation to career transitions
  • Emerging and aspiring leaders and the role of organisations in shaping leader identities

Mahima uses in-depth qualitative methodologies, such as, narrative interviews, diary studies and visual methods to examine individual experiences in organisational contexts. 

Publications

Talking about disappointments: identification work through multiple discourses at a prestigious university

  • Journal article
  • Human Relations
  • Mahima Mitra,
  • Michael Gill,
  • sue Dopson
Organisation Studies
Professional Service Firms
Health Care

Responsible leadership development: gender, diversity and the route to the top

  • Chapter
  • Responsible Leadership: Essential for the Achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
  • Mahima Mitra,
  • Andromache Athanasopoulou,
  • Susan Dopson,
  • Michael Smets
Organisation Studies
Professional Service Firms
Health Care

Responsible leadership development: Gender, diversity and the route to the top

  • Chapter
  • Responsible Leadership: Essential to the Achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • M Mitra,
  • A Athanasopoulou,
  • S Dopson,
  • M Smets
Health Care
Organisation Studies
Professional Service Firms

Responsible Leadership Development

  • Chapter
  • Responsible Leadership
  • Mahima Mitra,
  • Andromachi Athanasopoulou,
  • Sue Dopson,
  • Michael Smets

Making do by getting real: psychological contract violations and proactive career agency

  • Journal article
  • Health Care Management Review
  • Mahima Hoffmann,
  • Sue Dopson,
  • Timothy Hoff
Health Care
Organisation Studies
See more publications

Engagement

Mahima’s work involves engaging in research, evaluation and consulting activities that enhance effectiveness of public policy and business practice.

Her public sector engagements have spanned areas including equality, diversity and inclusion, education and employment, systems thinking in healthcare, and immigration and asylum. She has technical expertise in conducting process and impact evaluations using theory-based approaches, realist methodologies and tools such as contribution analysis. 

As an Executive Coach, Mahima provides leadership coaching to the School’s MBAs. She also coaches clients from a variety of sectors such as military, law, technology, recruitment and academia with a focus on career transitions. 

Social media

Get the latest news and updates from Mahima on LinkedIn.

Oxford Answers

Thought-leadership and insights for business leaders written by our Faculty and Associate Fellows.

View articles by Mahima.

  • ""