Elina joined Aston Business School as a Senior Lecturer in June 2019 from Newcastle University,where she had been a Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour. Prior to that, Elina  was a Senior Lecturer at Winchester Business School and a Research Fellow at Cardiff Business School. She gained her MSc and PhD from University of Montpellier, France and was an Early Career Marie Curie Fellow at the University of La Sapienza, Italy. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA).

Elina's research extends knowledge in various areas of Critical Management Studies. It seeks to understand individuals' actions and how these are shaped through subjective experiences in complex organizational and institutional contexts. Elina is interested in exploring how actors negotiate social structures shaping their lives, creating opportunities, and starting new ventures. 

Her work has contributed to debates on gender and inequalities at work, leadership, and entrepreneurship primarily via qualitative research designs.

 She is the Co-founder of Gender Issues in Business School Network (GIBS).

Elina has been the Principal Investigator on the following research projects:

• 2016- 2018 'Career trajectories of female entrepreneurs: Enacting entrepreneurship as relational good'  British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants.

• 2014-2015 'Leadership in transition to sustainable business: a study of SMEs in South East England' British Academy of Management – Researcher Development Grant Scheme

She has also received funding to organise  research-related events: 

• 2018 'Gender Issues in Business School Network Workshop' Society of the Advancement of Management Studies
• 2017 'In dialogue on Social Entrepreneurship: Opportunities and Challenges' ESRC    

I currently supervise PhD students on the follwoing topics:

• Skilled migant women and work-life balance
• Careers of BAME employees in the public sector

I would be happy to talk to prospective doctoral students in the areas of gender and inequalities at work, leadership and entrepreneurship. 

• I sit on the Associate Editorial Board of Work, Employemnt and Society.
• Guest  Editor ' Experiences and challenges with gender budgeting. Moving towards gender responsive forms of accountability?', 2020,  Public Money and Management 

• Academy of Management (AOM)
• British Academy of Management (BAM)
• Bristish Sociological Association (BSA)
• European Group of Organization Studies (EGOS)

Elina has taught on a range of programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and has been involved in executive education within the core subject areas of organisation studies.  Elina has led initiatives to enhance student experience including a funded project entitled “Introducing gender in management education” which focuses on introducing threshold concepts around gender in the curriculum of the Business School in order to enhance students’ learning and understanding of equality and diversity.

She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

She is the Module Leader for :

• Organisational Behaviour ( MSc)
• Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods (DBA)

• 2019- now  Research Director for the Work and Organisation Department
• 2018-now  External Examiner, Keele School of Management 
• 2016-2019 Degree Programme Director MSc International Business Management 

Email: e.meliou@aston.ac.uk