Ioulia Bessa

FACULTY

Ioulia Bessa

Associate Professor

The Alba MBA,MSc in International Business and Management,MSc in Strategic HRM

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B.A., International and European Economic Studies, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
M.A., Organizational Communication, Steinhardt School/Stern Business School, New York University
MPhil, Innovation, Strategy and Organizations, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
PhD., Human Resource Management, Cass Business School, City University of London

Short Bio

Ioulia Bessa is an Associate Professor at Leeds University Business School and a visiting professor at Alba Graduate Business School.

Her research focuses on non-standard forms of employment and their connection to precarity, underemployment/unemployment, as well as the use of quantitative instruments and methods to measure and understand precarity across different recessionary contexts, including the post-BREXIT and post-COVID-19 periods, and in the platform economy.

Ioulia is very interested in looking at how precarious and uncertain periods affect mental health, wellbeing, life and job satisfaction. She has used a range of secondary datasets (UK national and international) and has published in a number of different journals in the area of Industrial Relations and Sociology of work, such as Work, Employment and Society, British Journal of Industrial Relations and Human Relations Management. She is currently Editor at Work, Employment and Society.

Selected Publications

Wang, S., Kamerade, D., Bessa, I., Burchell, B., Gifford, J., Green, M. & Rubery, J. (2022). "The Impact of Reduced Working Hours and Furlough Policies on Workers’ Mental Health at the Onset of COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study". Journal of Social Policy, 1-25. Available here

Ioulia Bessa

Stuart, M., Trappmann, V., Bessa, I., Joyce, S., Neumann, D., & Umney, C. (2023). "Labor Unrest and the Future of Work: Global Struggles Against Food Delivery Platforms" Labour Studies Journal, Available here

Ioulia Bessa

Umney, C., Stuart, M., Bessa, I., Joyce, S., Neumann, D., & Trappmann, V. (2024). "Platform Labor Unrest in a Global Perspective: How, Where and Why Do Platform Workers Protest?" Work, Employment and Society, 38(1), 326

Ioulia Bessa