Project title: The Role of Capital Access in Shaping Women’s Leadership Outcomes in FTSE Organisations

Supervisors: Professor Laura Spence, Dr Ylva Baeckstrom, Professor Rosie Campbell

Year of entry: 2025, full time

Jayne Haines is a full-time PhD candidate at King’s Business School, exploring the gendered dimensions of capital, focusing on the cost of women’s unequal access to social and educational capital and how it impacts leadership progression within FTSE companies.

Before joining King’s, Jayne held senior HR leadership roles at GlaxoSmithKline and, more recently, at Rio Tinto. A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, she brings over 25 years’ experience shaping organisational culture, leadership capability, and ethical conduct. Her advisory work spans culture transformation, leadership development, and talent strategy, with a particular focus on inclusive approaches that empower diverse communities and promote equitable decision-making.

Industry Experience

• Strategic leadership in global human resources, with a focus on people-centric transformation
• Expertise in employee engagement, including global survey design, analysis, and amplifying employee voice
• Proven track record in shaping and evolving organisational culture across complex, multinational environments
• Leading large-scale organisational change and transformation initiatives with measurable impact
• Pioneering the use of people data and analytics to influence executive decision-making and board level strategy
• Global lead for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, embedding inclusive practices• Leadership of large, dispersed teams (>1,000 employees), fostering alignment, accountability, and shared purpose
• Designing and delivering global leadership development programmes to build future-ready capability
• End-to-end strategy for attraction, recruitment, selection, and talent development, with a focus on equity and redefining the concept of potential.

Jayne is a member of the Board of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) in the UK, contributing to its strategy and assuring its reputation as an independent, impartial, and trusted workplace expert body, as part of the government’s Industrial Strategy. She is a member of the Audit Committee.

Jayne is a member of the Thame and District Housing Association Board sharing her expertise to support its mission of providing comfortable, safe and affordable homes for local people and enabling residents to live their best possible lives.

Jayne was a Trustee and then Chair of the charity Women in Sport for 10 years, working to transform sport for every woman and girl in the UK, and received her MBE in 2021 for services to women’s sport. She is passionate about the positive role that sport plays in everyone’s life and believes that sport and access to sport is a critical part of the equity agenda for women.

Jayne now Chairs the Berkshire Cricket Foundation, with the aim of building participation and inclusion in cricket and is a member of the Recreation Game Board Committee of the England and Wales Cricket Board.