Dr Belgin Okay-Somerville
- Senior Lecturer (Management)
telephone:
014133 2706
email:
Belgin.Okay-Somerville@glasgow.ac.uk
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-674XBiography
Belgin joined the Adam Smith Business School as Lecturer in Human Resource Management in January 2017. Prior to this appointment, she took lectureship posts in Stirling Management School (2014 - 2017) and the University of Aberdeen Business School (2012 - 2014). Belgin is a work psychologist by training and received a BSc Psychology at the University of Nottingham, and an MA Industrial/Organisational Psychology at Koc University in Turkey. Her teaching and research covers various areas of work and vocational psychology and human resource management.
Belgin's main research interests centre around understanding individuals (in particular university graduates) experience of work and career progression. Her PhD research (University of Strathclyde, 2013) aimed to understand contemporary graduate careers and examined job quality in graduate labour market, the role of career self-management for securing good first jobs upon graduation and the impact of early underemployment on later career progression.
Research interests
Belgin is a member of the Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour research cluster.
Areas of expertise:
- Youth employment
- Graduate labour market
- University-to-work transitions
- Graduate/student wellbeing
- Employability
- Career development/mobility/transition
- Labour market entry
- Job search and work-related wellbeing
- Job quality and skills (under)utilisation
- Underemployment/overqualification
- Strategic human resource management
Grants
- 2021 COVID Impact Mitigation Fund, University of Glasgow (£7,986.8, Principal investigator)
- 2021 College Research Fund, University of Glasgow (£1,500, Principal investigator)
- 2020 European Association of Work and Organisational Psychology (€3581, Principal investigator), Small Group Meeting on Young people’s work, employment and careers
- 2020 ESRC Impact Acceleration Account (£4542.00, Principal investigator) Improving the Quality of Youth Employment: Lessons from Work Psychology Research
- 2019 Radboud-Glasgow Collaboration Fund, Short-term staff mobility, £1520
- 2017 ESRC Training Bursary (2017)
- 2014 British Academy Small Research Grant (lead applicant): University-to-work transitions: the role of career self-management in graduate employability and employment success, Co-applicant: Professor Dora Scholarios (University of Strathclyde), July 2014 - August 2017.
- 2014 Principal’s Excellence Fund, University of Aberdeen
- 2013 ESRC Training Bursary
Supervision
Belgin is interested in supervising PhD projects focusing on work psychology and strategic human resource management, covering the following:
- Graduate labour market
- University-to-work transitions
- Graduate/student wellbeing
- Employability
- Career development/mobility/transition
- Labour market entry
- Job search and work-related wellbeing
- Job quality and skills (under)utilisation
- Underemployment/overqualification
- Strategic human resource management
Current supervision
- Craik Nicoll, Jennifer
Determinants and impact of wellbeing during university - Hadiono, Alvin
A Study of Employee Learning Agility - The Effects of Individual Differences and The Work and Learning Context - Kamal, Novika Grasiaswaty
Algoactivism among Platform Workers: An Attribution Theory Approach - Nygren, Lindsay Marie
The role of the university in international students’ employability in the UK
Teaching
Belgin’s teaching spans various aspects of strategic human resource management, organisational behaviour, work psychology and vocational psychology.
Additional information
Belgin's professional affiliations include:
- Academic Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development
- Recognising Excellence in Teaching Fellow, University of Glasgow
- Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Full member of European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology
- Member of Academy of Management Careers Division
- Member of Academy of Management Organisational Behaviour Division
- Member of Academy of Management Human Resources Division
Belgin's current roles within University of Glasgow include:
- Director of Internationalisation, Adam Smith Business School
- Athena Swan Student Subgroup Lead
- Member of University of Glasgow Senate
Belgin's external roles include:
- External examiner, University of Edinburgh, MSc HRM and IHRM
- Member of the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships Peer Review College
- Associate editor, EAWOP In Practice
- Young employment lead, EAWOP Impact Incubator
- Guest editor, EAWOP In Practice, Special Issue on Youth Employment (2020/21)
- Academy of Management, Teaching and Learning Committee, Out-going Committee Co-chair (2020/21)
- Academy of Management, Teaching and Learning Committee, Committee Co-chair (2020/21)
- Academy of Management, Teaching and Learning Committee, Programme Co-chair (2019/20)
- EAWOP Advisory Committee
- Academy of Management, Teaching and Learning Committee, Communications Co-Chair (2018/19)
- Academy of Management, Teaching and Learning Committee, Representative-at-Large (2017/18)
- KU Leuven Research Council Expert Reviewer (2016)
- Business and Management Pathway Representative for University of Aberdeen: ESRC Scottish Graduate School of Social Science Doctoral Training Centre (2013/14)
- Associate editor, Europe’s Journal of Psychology (since 2009)
Belgin has received an Outstanding Reviewer Award from the Acadamy of Management Careers Division in 2013, 2013, 2017 and 2020.
