Research output per year
Research output per year
United Kingdom
Accepting PhD Students
PhD projects
I am currently accepting PhD students in my areas of research.
Email: e.meliou@aston.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 121 204 5319
Elina is a Reader in Organisational Behaviour. She joined Aston Business School as a Senior Lecturer in June 2019 from Newcastle University, where she had been a Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour. Elina gained her MSc and PhD from the 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 seeks to understand individuals' actions and how these are shaped through subjective experiences in complex organizational and social contexts. Elina is interested in exploring how actors, particularly women and minorities, negotiate social structures shaping their lives, actualizing opportunities, and starting new ventures.
Her published work contributes to debates on diversity, inclusion, and leadership at work primarily via qualitative research designs. She is the Co-founder of Gender Issues in Business School Network (GIBS), an initiatve that promotes gender research and networking for early career academics doing gender research in Business Schools.
Elina is an Associate Editor for Gender, Work and Organization and sits on the Editorial Board of Work, Employment and Society. She has acted as a Guest Editor for various journals, including Organization Studies - Special issue on "Social diversity and precarious organizations", and Public Money and Management on "Gender-responsive budgeting and accountability".
She is a Member of the Peer Review College of the British Academy of Management.
2021- 2023 CO-I 'Pathways to Enterprising Futures', European Social Fund, £1,000,000
2021-2022 PI- Academic profession, contingent employment and career pathways during a crisis' , Society of Research in Higher Education £ 9,700
2020-2022 Co-I 'Cyberdeviance in the digital tech sector: informal rules, relational reflexivity and transformational ends' British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants. £10,000
2016- 2018 PI- 'Career trajectories of female entrepreneurs: Enacting entrepreneurship as relational good' British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants. £10,000
2014-2015 'Leadership in transition to sustainable business: a study of SMEs in South East England' British Academy of Management – Researcher Development Grant Scheme £4,000
Elina has also received funding to organise impact related activities:
I currently supervise PhD students on the follwoing topics:
I would be happy to talk to prospective doctoral students in the areas of gender, precarity and inequalities at work and organisations.
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 :
External Examiner, Brunel University
1 Jan 2021 → …
External Examiner
1 Oct 2018 → …
Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference abstract › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Elina Meliou (Editorial board member)
Activity: Peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity
Elina Meliou (Editorial board member)
Activity: Peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity
1/09/22
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research