Postgraduate research students

Lina specialises in gender equality in organisations. In her PhD, Lina takes a multi-level approach to investigate the effectiveness of gender equality and diversity iniatives. She is particularly interested in fairness perception and how it affects policy support/resistance. Although Lina is a predominantly quantitative researcher, she employs mixed research methods in her PhD research.

In addition to diversity, Lina’s other areas of interest include:

• Work-life balance and well-being
• Contemporary labour markets and their effect on employees
• Research methods and statistics

• Professor Rosalind Searle
• Professor Fiona Wilson

Understanding gender equality and diversity policy implementation through a multilevel lens: A literature review.

Developmental paper for British Academic of Management 2022

Track: Gender in Management

Besides her PhD, Lina has been working as a Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) for the Adam Smith Business School (ASBS) and worked for Student Learning Development (SLD) from 2021 to 2025. Lina is a RET Asssociate Fellow and was awarded the Student Teaching Award in the category best GTA.

Courses Lina has supported as a tutor include:

• Organistional Behaviour (MGT5063/5282/5283/5284)
• Managing Diversity in Organisations (MGT5054)
• Research Methods (MGT5452P/5451P/5450P)
• Project Methods (MGT5271P/5357P/5359P/5358P)

As part of her work with Student Learning Development (SLD), Lina provided academic advice and taught academic writing to undergraduate and postgraduate students from the Sciences and Social Sciences. She also mentored students and has presented at the multidisciplinary Let’s Talk About [X] conference annually since 2021. In addition, through the university’s Transition to Glasgow (T2G) initiative, Lina designed and delivered a two-week introductory course on gender equality in organisations, which ran from 2022 to 2025.

Lina's staff profile can be found here.

Lina joined the Adam Smith Business School (ASBS) as a doctoral researcher in 2021. She has a multidisciplinary academic background, holding a BSc in Psychology from the University of Liverpool, an MSc in Public Policy and Global Health from Durham University, and an MSc in Human Resource Management and Employment Relations from Warwick Business School. Most recently, she completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Management Research Methods at the University of Glasgow while pursuing her PhD.

Lina’s detailed CV is available on her LinkedIn profile.