IERODIAKONOU CHRISTIANA

Christiania Ierodiakonou is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Business Administration and Public Administration at the University of Cyprus, affiliated with the School of Economics and Management. Her work focuses on Human Resource Management, teaching courses like Diversity and Inclusion Management, Organizational Behavior, and Qualitative Methods. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Leeds (UK), an MSc from the University of Manchester (UK), and a BSc from the University of Cyprus.

Her research explores workplace inequality and inclusion, particularly gender and LGBTQ+ issues, sustainable careers, and comparative human rights practices. She investigates diversity management policies, organizational support practices, and how structural frameworks like welfare states influence career decisions. Current research priorities include work-life balance for marginalized groups and the role of flexibility in employment contexts.

Her recent work highlights intersections between economic insecurity, non-standard employment, and gender in Southern Europe, as well as LGBTQ+ lived experiences in Cyprus. She has published extensively in journals like Human Resource Management and The Sociological Review. She actively supervises students on topics like gender and work, occupational segregation, and critical approaches to inclusion management.

No scientific awards are explicitly mentioned in the text. Her work emphasizes interdisciplinary analysis of institutional and societal structures affecting labor markets. She has collaborated on studies comparing labor policies across nations and contributed to understanding the impact of perceptual discrepancies in workplace support systems.