Professor Eva Selenko studied Social Psychology at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) and completed her PhD in Psychology, on justice and identity, at the University of Graz (Austria).

She began her academic career as a Lecturer in Work Psychology at the University of Linz (Austria), before moving to the Institute of Work Psychology (University of Sheffield) in 2013. She joined Loughborough in 2016 – and was promoted to Professor in 2023.

Her research focuses on the effects of precarious work on well-being, work behaviour and wider societal attitudes. Taking a programmatic approach, she aims to suggest new ways of understanding the meaning of work in our lives.

Eva has published in world-leading journals, and her ideas have been very well received by academia and industry alike. As an esteemed academic she collaborates with eminent international institutions, and acts as an editor for esteemed journals.

In 2020, she was awarded a Fellowship by the Royal Society of Arts in recognition of her work around well-being in times of crisis. She is Head of the Business School’s Work and Organisation Academic Group.