Lucia Cervi

• Teaching Champion for the Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability Committee (UEBS)
• Course organiser for Qualitative Data Analyses (PhD)
• Course organiser for Organising for Effectiveness (Online MBA)
• Course contributor on Methods of Research in HRM (50%, Qualitative Research) (MSc HRM and IHRM)
• Course organiser for Applications of Human Resource Management (UG Hons)
• Previously course organiser for Global Diversity and Equality Management (MSc HRM and IHRM, 2022-2025)
• Previously PGR Representative for the Organisation Studies Group (2022-2025)
• PhD dissertation supervisor
• UG, MSc, and MBA dissertation advisor

Dr Lucia Cervi is a qualitative scholar with a background in political science, human rights, and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). She is broadly interested in the intersection of social and digital aspects of sustainability, from a critical and qualitative perspective. Her work is informed by management and organisation studies, political and critical approaches to CSR, critical data studies, gender and feminist studies, and critical discourse analysis. More recently, her research has been focusing on the ethical implications of digitalisation, the digital and social vulnerabilities emerging from FinTech, and the socio-political implications of technology-driven organizations and practices. 

She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), a member of the Centre for Business, Climate Change, and Sustainability (B-CCaS), and of the Gender, Work and Organization Research Network on Gender and Health at Work. 

Lucia's research currently focuses on three streams:

1. the social and organisational implications of digitalisation and AI applications, with a specific focus on the digitalisation of credit;
2. the social, political and historical implications of tech practices, and an overall concern for the erosion of democratic principles and processes.
3. issues and practices of inclusion and justice within academic labour and HE institutions.

Dr Lucia Cervi welcomes proposals from highly qualified PhD candidates interested in undertaking qualitative research from a critical perspective, and aligned with her research expertise and interests, in the fields of Organization Studies and/or Critical Management Studies.