People
We are leading experts in our fields and have a wide range of specialised interests in business analytics, operations, supply chain management and logistics, extractive industries and sustainability. We invite contact from prospective postgraduate research students.
Meet the team
Head of Management
Professor Steve Woods
Professor of Work and Organisational Psychology and Head of Department of People and Organisations
Academic staff
Professor Samuel Aryee
Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management
Debbie Burns-Pegler
Lecturer in Business & Employment Law
Dr Irina Cojuharenco
Reader, Founding Director of the University of Surrey Business and Economic Experiments (USBEE) Laboratory
Dr Rosie Cole
Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Supply Chain Management
Stephen Dale
Director of Employability and Graduate Outcomes. Senior Lecturer in Law.
Dr Karen Dennis
Senior Lecturer in Operations Management
Professor Ali Emrouznejad
Professor and Chair in Business Analytics, Director of the "Centre for Business Analytics in Practice", and Program Lead for "Sustainability Analytics, Metrics, and NetZero"
Dr Masoud Fakhimi
Senior Lecturer in Operational Research
Lanyue Fan
Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management
Dr Wolfgang Garn
Associate Professor in Analytics
Dr Dimitris Giraleas
Senior Lecturer In Business Analytics
Dr Vikas Grover
Senior Lecturer in Management Information Systems
Dr Cecile Guillaume
Reader in Organisation Studies & Employment Relations
Dr YingFei Heliot
Associate Professor in Organisational Behaviour
Dr Andrew Hill
Senior Lecturer in Business Analytics
Dr Yuanyuan Huo
Senior Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour and Management
Dr Athina Ioannou
Senior Lecturer in Business Analytics
Dr Sebastiano Massaro
Associate Professor (Reader)
Dr Vahid Mirza Beiki
Senior Lecturer in Operations Management
Professor Christine Rivers
Professor of Mindfulness and Business
Dr Hamid Roodbari
Lecturer in People and Organisations
Dr Abdolreza Roshani
Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Business Analytics
Professor Eugene Sadler-Smith
Professor of Organizational Behaviour
Dr Abhijit Sengupta
Associate Professor (Reader) in Business Analytics, Discipline of Management, Surrey Business School
Dr Tammi Sinha
Director of Undergraduate Studies SBS, Senior Lecturer Operations Management
Deji Sotunde
EMBA Programme Director, Senior Lecturer
Dr Mahdi Tavalaei
Senior Lecturer in Strategy and Digital Transformation | MBA Programme Director
Dr Mehdi Toloo
Reader in Business Analytics
Dr Christopher Turner
Senior Lecturer in Business Analytics
Professor Carol Woodhams
Professor of Human Resource Management
Professor Yu Xiong
Fellow of Academy of Social Science; Chair Professor of Business Analytics; Director, Surrey Academy for Blockchain and Metaverse Applications
Dr Yuyan Zheng
Senior Lecturer in Organisation Psychology/Organisation Studies
Dr Xun Zhou
Senior Lecturer in Business Analytics
Professor Ying Zhou
Professor of Human Resource Management; Director of the Future of Work Research Centre
Emeritus staff
Professor James Aitken
Emeritus Professor
Postgraduate research students
Nicole Abela
Postgraduate Research Student
Ali Ahmadi
Postgraduate Research Student
Lisa Cafora
Doctoral Researcher
Eyup Kar
Postgraduate Research Student
Sasha Korobov
Doctoral research in destructive leadership (focus on hubris)
Chixiao Lu
Postgraduate Research Student
Eleanor Mill
Postgraduate Research Student
Sheeba Pathak
Postgraduate Research Student
Melanie Rich
Postgraduate Research Student
Divya Tongya
Postgraduate Research Student
Lambros Viennas
PhD Student
Ruoxi Yang
Postgraduate Research Student
Ying Zhang
PhD candidate
Jing Zhao
Postgraduate Research Student
Visiting staff
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Nick Ryman-Tubb | Visiting Professor |
| Paul Krause | Visiting Professor |
| Patrick Mikalef | Visiting Professor |
| Lydia Karl Afua Osei | Visiting Researcher |
| Graham Robinson | Visiting Fellow |