Joana Vassilopoulou

Dr Vassilopoulou is a Reader (Associate Professor) in HRM and Director of Equality, diversity & Inclusion and UN PRME at Brunel Business School, Brunel University London. Her research focuses on equality, diversity & inclusion, gender and ethnicity at work, migration and precarious work, from a critical and international comparative perspective.

Joana Vassilopoulou has an established academic and professional record in the field of diversity and inclusion, is frequently invited to deliver talks and she has organised and hosted the international Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) conference twice. Currently, Joana is an editor at Work, Employment and Society (WES) Journal. From 2015 to 2020, she served as an Associate Editor of the European Management Review (EMR) and was a board member of the European Academy of Management (EURAM) and the UK National Representative of EURAM. She has published in edited collections and journals such as Human Resource Management Journal, Work, Emplyoment and Society, European Journal of Industrial Relations, International Business Review and the International Journal of Human Resource Management.

She is an associated faculty member at the Erasmus Centre for Women and Organisations, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Rotterdam/Netherlands and she held visiting Professorship at Dauphine University, Paris /France, at MCI Innsbruck (Austria) and at the University of Wuppertal (Germany).

Dr Vassilopoulou is the recipient of a visiting scholarship at Sydney University’s business school (2017); winner of the Transnational Best Paper Award at the American Academy of Management conference (2012); and the recipient of University of East Anglia’s Norwich Business School Diversity and Equality in Careers and Employment Research PhD scholarship (2007-2010).

She has a PhD in Management from Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia and her Social Science/Sociology degree from the University Duisburg-Essen, Germany.