About
Eva Selenko is Professor of Work Psychology and Associate Dean for Research and Innovation at 海角社区 Business School. Her research examines how changes in work shape people's identities, wellbeing, behaviour and engagement with society. She is committed to producing internationally excellent research that combines scientific rigour with societal relevance, contributing both to academic knowledge and to organisational and public debate.
Eva publishes regularly in leading international (CABS4 ranked) journals, including the Journal of Management, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Current Directions in Psychological Science among others. She serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior and the Scandinavian Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and holds an Alma Mater Guest Professorship at Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria.
Research
Eva's research explores three interconnected themes:
- Work, identity and wellbeing: understanding how job insecurity, precarity and other forms of uncertainty affect people's identities, wellbeing and work behaviour.
- AI and the future of work: examining how digitalisation and artificial intelligence are transforming work, affecting workers and organisational life.
- The Work–Politics Nexus: investigating how experiences at work shape civic engagement, democratic participation and broader societal outcomes.
Engagement
Eva collaborates with researchers around the world and regularly presents her work internationally. Beyond academia, she has advised organisations including the US United Steelworkers, the World Bank, Cumberland Lodge and the German Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA), and frequently delivers keynote addresses for academic, practitioner and policy audiences.
Originally trained as a social and organisational psychologist, Eva obtained her MSc from the University of Groningen (NL) and her PhD from the University of Graz (AU).
Eva’s research focuses on how work situations affect people’s well-being, job performance, but also civic behaviour outside the work context. Starting from the premise that work is closely related to who we are, Eva explores what happens if work suddenly becomes insecure, unattainable, or lost – or changes dramatically due to AI.
Work means more than just providing a financial income alone – it can offer social contacts, the opportunity to do something useful, it structures time, it activates people. However, not all forms of work can provide these functions equally well, and if work changes, associated identities might change with it or get threatened – with serious consequences for wellbeing, performance and even civic behavior outside work.
To investigate these questions in modern (often precarious) work settings and explore the bridges between work changes and employment experiences, employment experiences and wider democratic participation, provides the stage for Eva’s research interests.
If you are interested in these issues from an academic, practitioner, or policymaking angle, don’t hesitate to get in touch. Eva is open to supervise PhD students with interests in her research.
- Alma Mater Guest Professor, Johannes-Kepler University Linz
- Editorial Board Member: Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Scandinavian Journal of Work and Organisational Psychology
- Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts
- Habilitation ad personam, Johannes-Kepler University Linz (2016)
- Selenko, E., Schilbach, M., Brieger, S. A., Van Hootegem, A., & De Witte, H. (2025). The political consequences of work: An integrative review. Journal of Management, 51(6), 2355-2388.
- Selenko, E., Bankins, S., Shoss, M., Warburton, J., & Restubog, S. L. D. (2022). Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work: A Functional-Identity Perspective. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 31(3), 272-279.
- Selenko, E., Mäkikangas, A., & Stride, C. B. (2017). Does job insecurity threaten who you are? Introducing a social identity perspective to explain well鈥恇eing and performance consequences of job insecurity. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 38(6), 856-875.
- Klug, K., Selenko, E., & Gerlitz, J. Y. (2021). Working, but not for a living: a longitudinal study on the psychological consequences of economic vulnerability among German employees. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 30(6), 790-807.
- Selenko, E., & De Witte, H. (2021). How job insecurity affects political attitudes: Identity threat plays a role. Applied Psychology, 70(3), 1267-1294.