Editorial Team
Mark Learmonth
Editor-in-Chief
Mark Learmonth has been Professor of Organization Studies at Durham University Business School in the UK since 2011. Prior to Durham he worked at the Universities of Nottingham and York but spent the first 17 years of his career in management posts within the British National Health Service.
Much of Mark’s research is motivated by an interest in the personal consequences of work. At the moment he is particularly interested in the impact of media representations on managers’ identities; the shifting nature of the language used to represent work and organization; and multi-method ethnographies – particularly within institutions at the forefront of social change.
Andrew D Brown
Co-Editor
Andrew D Brown is Professor of Organization Studies at the University of Bath, UK. He has previously held faculty positions at the universities of Manchester, Nottingham, Cambridge and Warwick. Andrew’s research interests centre on issues of identity, especially as they relate to sensemaking, narrative, and power.
Smriti Anand
Co-Editor
Smriti Anand is Associate Professor of Management at the Illinois Institute of Technology Stuart School of Business, Chicago. Her research interests include leadership, diversity, and non-traditional work arrangements (i-deals) with particular focus on multi-level and cross-cultural frameworks. Smriti is a SIOP scholar whose research has been published in leading journals of management such as The Academy of Management Journal, The Journal of Applied Psychology, and Human Relations. Smriti holds a PhD in Business Administration and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago, an MBA from Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management, and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Ranchi University (India). She has over 10 years of high-tech industry experience in diverse areas such as electrical and software engineering, product development, and marketing at firms such as Information Resources, Inc. and Motorola, Inc.
Mina Beigi
Associate Editor
Mina Beigi is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management at the University of Southampton Business School. She has earned a PhD in Human Resource Development from Texas A&M University, USA (2015) and a PhD in Human Resource Management from Allameh Tababtabaei University, Iran (2008).
Mina’s research focuses on work-nonwork interface, understudied careers, and career success. Her work has been published in Human Relations, Journal of Vocational Behavior, International Journal of Management Reviews, Applied Psychology: International Review, and The International Journal of Human Resource Management, among others. Mina has served as the Associate Editor of Human Resource Development Review (2017-2020) and has been elected as the Newsletter Editor for the Careers Division, Academy of Management (2018-2020).
Dr Zhijun Chen
Associate Editor
Dr Zhijun Chen is a Professor at the College of Business of the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. Zhijun previously held a faculty position at the University of Western Australia. Zhijun’s interests center on employee proactive behavior, coworker influence, and different forms of leadership behaviors.
Alessia Contu
Associate Editor
Alessia Contu is Professor of Management and Chair of the Management Department at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She worked at Warwick Business School (2006-13), Lancaster University Management School (2001-2006) and at UMIST (1998-2001) where she also gained her PhD.
Jean-Pascal Gond
Associate Editor
Jean-Pascal Gond (PhD, University of Toulouse Capitole) is a Chair Professor of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) at City, University of London, UK, where he heads ETHOS – The Centre for Responsible Enterprise. His research combines insights from economic sociology, organizational theory and organizational behaviour, to explore CSR at the market (sustainable finance), organizational (CSR ratings) and individual levels (micro-CSR).
Tae-Yeol Kim
Associate Editor
Tae-Yeol Kim (PhD, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) is Philips Chair in Management and a Professor of Management in the Department of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management at China Europe International Business School (CEIBS). He is currently serving as Department Chair.
Tae-Yeol’s current research interests include leadership, positive organizational scholarship, creativity, proactivity, and person–environment fit. His research has appeared in journals such as Human Relations, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Journal of Organizational Behavior. He has served on the editorial boards of Human Relations, Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Vocational Behavior, and Management and Organizational Review.
Juliette Koning
Associate Editor
Juliette Koning is Professor of Business in Society at the School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University (the Netherlands), where she is also Head of the Organisation, Strategy and Entrepreneurship Department.
Juliette has a background in social anthropology (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) from which she investigates the role and meaning of religion, ethnicity, kinship, identity, ethics, relationality, gender, and generations for organizational leadership, business conduct, small business development and entrepreneurship. Recent research focuses on the privatization and organization of security. Some of her research is conducted in Indonesia and South Africa. Her research has been published in Organization Studies, Entrepreneurship, Theory & Practice, Journal of Business Ethics, Management Learning, Entrepreneurship & Regional Development and various other outlets.
Tim Kuhn
Associate Editor
Timothy R Kuhn (PhD, Arizona State University) is professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA. His research addresses the constitution of authority and agency in organizational action, with particular attention to how knowledge, identities and conceptions of value emerge in sociomaterial and power-laden communication practices.
In addition to his role with Human Relations, he is an associate editor of the International Encyclopedia of Organizational Communication, a co-coordinator of the ‘Organization as Communication’ Standing Working Group at the European Group of Organizational Studies (EGOS), and a former chair of the organizational communication division of the National Communication Association.
His research has been published in Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Annals, Organization, Organization Studies, Management Communication Quarterly, and Communication Monographs, among other outlets.
Helena Liu
Associate Editor
Helena Liu is a Senior Lecturer at UTS Business School in Sydney, Australia. She was awarded her PhD in 2012 from the University of Sydney. She joined the Human Relations Editorial Board in 2017 and became an Associate Editor in November 2018.
Helena’s research has appeared in journals such as Human Relations; Organization; Management Learning; Journal of Business Ethics; Gender, Work and Organization and Leadership.
Chidiebere Ogbonnaya
Associate Editor
Dr Chidiebere Ogbonnaya is a Senior Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour/Human Resource Management at the University of Sussex Business School. He was a co-investigator on the ESRC-funded What Works for Well-being evidence programme and currently a co-lead for the Digit Data Observatory, part of the ESRC-funded Digital Futures at Work Research Centre.
His research cuts across a wide range of management and organisational topics including job quality, employment relations, critical human resource management, workplace values, employee well-being and organisational performance. At the moment, he is particularly interested in the well-being and experiences of informal workers (e.g., street vendors) in low- and middle-income economies.
Chidiebere’s work has appeared in academic journals such as Human Relations, Journal of Management, Human Resource Management (US), Human Resource Management Journal (UK), Journal of Vocational Behavior, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, among others.
Ajnesh Prasad
Associate Editor
Ajnesh Prasad’s research interests broadly focus on gender and diversity issues in organizations, interpretive methods, and social inequality. He has held tenured academic appointments at universities in Australia, Canada, and Mexico. His past and ongoing research has been funded, as principal or sole investigator, by grants from the British Academy, Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
Yasin Rofcanin
Associate Editor
Dr Rofcanin holds a BA in Management (Istanbul Bogazici University), MBA (Istanbul Bogazici University) and PhD in organisational behaviour & human resource management (Warwick Business School). Dr Rofcanin is a Professor of Organizational Psychology and Human Resources Management at University of Bath School of Management. He is also the Director of the Future of Work Research Centre in the School.
Melanie Simms
Associate Editor
Melanie Simms is Professor of Work and Employment at the University of Glasgow, UK. She writes and researches around issues of worker voice, skills, young workers’ transitions into the labour market and the future of work. She was Editor-in-Chief of Work, Employment and Society until 2017
Karan Sonpar
Associate Editor
Karan Sonpar is Professor of Management at University College Dublin, Ireland. He has previously held faculty positions at Instituto de Empresa (IE) Business School, Spain and University of Manitoba, Canada. His current research interests include cognition, leadership discretion in the face of competing demands from institutions and stakeholders, image and identity work, and managing talent.
Olga Tregaskis
Associate Editor (On sabbatical until April 2022)
Olga Tregaskis is Professor at Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia, UK. She began her career from a disciplinary background in applied psychology, moving later into the multidisciplinary arena of international employment studies.
Kerrie Unsworth
Associate Editor
Kerrie Unsworth is Professor and Head of the Management Division at Leeds University Business School, UK. She is also Director of the Workplace Behaviour Research Centre, a research group dedicated to improving the world through better organisational behaviour.
Hao Zhao
Associate Editor
Hao Zhao is Professor of Management at China Europe International Business School (CEIBS). His research interests include entrepreneurship, leadership, innovation, artificial intelligence, and personnel recruitment and selection.
