Dr Luciana Zorzoli

Biography

Dr Luciana Zorzoli is a Senior Lecturer in Employment Relations at Essex Business School. Her research focuses on the evolving nature of work and employment, particularly in the Global South, with an emphasis on labour regulation, workers' strategies, and the role of international labour standards in Latin America. She is currently working on a project on the development of regulations and the impact of AI and algorithmic management at work. Dr Zorzoli has secured funding for her PhD and postdoctoral research from CONICET (Argentina) and has received grants from the Fulbright Commission, Cardiff University, and the MERCOSUR research exchange programme. Before joining Essex, she was a Lecturer in Employment Relations at Cardiff Business School, where she also served as interim Director of the Employment Research Unit (ERU). She has extensive international academic experience, including visiting positions with teaching duties at the Universidad de Salamanca (2020) and the University of Vienna (2024).

Qualifications

• PhD in Social Sciences University of Buenos Aires, (2016)

• Bachelor in History Facultad de Humanidades y Cs. de la Educación, University of La Plata, (2009)

Appointments

University of Essex

• Associate Director of Postgraduate Research (Management/Marketing), Essex Business School, University of Essex (1/4/2024 - present)

Other academic

• Lecturer in Employment Relations, Management, Employment and Organisations Section, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University (1/4/2020 - 31/10/2023)

• Affiliate Lecturer, Department of International Development, King's College London (1/8/2019 - 31/3/2020)

• Visitng Fellow, International Development, SOAS University of London (1/9/2017 - 31/7/2019)

• Fulbright Visiting Fellow, ILAS, Columbia University (1/9/2016 - 1/1/2017)

• Postdoctoral Fellow, IdIHCS - UNLP, CONICET (1/7/2016 - 31/7/2018)

• PhD Fellow, National Scientific and Technical Research Council (1/4/2011 - 30/6/2016)