University of Exeter Business School

Dr Olga Andrianova

Dr Olga Andrianova

Lecturer in Management

 O.Andrianova@exeter.ac.uk

 +44 (0) 7475 932803

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Overview

Olga Andrianova joined the University of Exeter Business School in March 2019, initially working as an Industrial Impact Fellow Lecturer in Science, Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship (SITE) at the University of Exeter Business School, Penryn Campus, and leading integration of Circular Economy approaches in Cornwall within the Tevi programme. In March 2020, Olga joined the Department of Management and then the Degree Apprenticeships Department at the University of Exeter Business School, Streatham Campus, as a Lecturer in Management. 

Prior to joining the University of Exeter, Olga worked as an Associate Lecturer at the Open University in Milton Keynes, in which Olga have taught on postgraduate and undergraduate programmes for more than eight years. Due to her experience Olga has become a Senior Fellow of the HEA (SFHEA) and Assoc CIPD. Prior to her academic career, Olga worked in various management roles in private sector (Henkel CEE GmbH in Vienna (Austria), Beiersdorf AG in Hamburg (Germany) and PUBLIX GmbH in Vienna (Austria)) and international organisations (UNIDO in Vienna (Austria), OSCE Secretariat in Vienna (Austria), UNDP Belarus in Minsk (Belarus)). 

Olga’s PhD research, completed in 2019 at the Open University, has investigated how front-line managers of chemical plants in Belarus engage their staff with environmental issues and facilitate learning for corporate greening in their organisations. Olga also holds Masters in Research in Management and Business, MSc in HRM and MBA from the same University, Degree in International Management from the University of Hamburg (UK). Moreover, Olga has a teaching qualification from the Academy of Education Stanislaw Staszyc (Poland) and a Trainer Certificate in Business from ABELARD Seminar centre (Austria).   

Nationality: Belarusian

Administrative responsibilities

  • 1E20 Cohort Lead for the Senior Leader MBA programme 

Qualifications

  • PhD in Management  
  • MSc in Human Resource Management 
  • Master in Research (MRes) 
  • MBA in Business and Management 
  • Diplom Kauffrau (Dipl-Kff.) 
  • SFHEA 
  • Assoc CIPD 

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Research

Research interests

  • Sustainability 
  • Circular Economy  
  • Environmental responsibility 
  • Strategic Management   
  • HRM (incl. Green HRM) 
  • Learning  
  • eLearning 
  • Ethics and Responsible Leadership  
  • Small and Medium Size Enterprises 

The focus of Olga’s research is on environmental sustainable work behaviour and learning. Olga studies key issues faced by people in organisations, such as power, resistance, change, knowledge, learning, identity in the context of new societal changes and sustainability. In her research, Olga engages with constructivist, interpretative, phenomenological process and practice research perspectives and seek to question epistemological assumptions behind ‘learning’ and ‘changing’. These can arise at both the level of how academic theory articulates processes such as learning and changing in the context of sustainability, as well as,the way practitioners (managers at all levels in large and small organisations) enact them under distinctive societal influences and legacies such as the COVID-19 pandemic or Soviet legacy. Understanding change towards more responsible ways of working is reflected in her research with the aim to advance these themes in the Organisational Behaviour (OB), Human ResourcesManagement (HRM) and Sustainability literature. 

Research projects

Addressing learning challenges of COVID-19 for Higher Education Graduates 

The project explores how COVID-19 has changed the way the HE apprentices learn in crises, investigates the problems students have faced in their daily professional lives during COVID-19 pandemic and understands the skills necessary for their current and future employability.  

We are looking for 20-30 people for this study and would like the sample to be as diverse as possible to reflect the different challenges the students might have.  

Please get in touch with Olga (O.Andrianova@exeter.ac.uk) if you are enrolled in the Programme of the Degree Apprenticeships at the University of Exeter or working with apprentices.  

The interviews will take online at the time that is convenient for you and last between 45-60 minutes. More information about the process you will find here. 

Circular Economy Education Research and Development Project  

The research project aims at exploring the ways in which circular economy and environmental growth principles can be integrated in innovative teaching approaches that help businesses to determine growth opportunities and how best to use these approaches in their daily practices to improve business resource efficiency and to create new products, services and jobs. 

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External Engagement and Impact

Olga currently is a member of the Circular FalmouthCommittee to help local community in Falmouth more effectively prepare for and respond to the next wave of the COVID-19 crises that may further disrupt food security for Falmouth residents and businesses, andensure a secure food supply for the future.    

Awards and Honours

  • Nominated for an Aurora Leadership Programme 2019/2020 which is Advance HE`s leadership development initiative for women (Birmingham Group)  

External positions

Visiting lectureship 

  • Visiting Lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences Burgenland (Austria) 

Professional affiliation 

Invited lectures

  • BEP3040 Local - Global Innovation (Cornwall Research Seminar Series), University of Exeter Business School, Penryn, September 05, 2019. 
  • ‘Tevi – an innovative way to support SMEs in Cornwall and enhance the natural environment.Access our research. Penryn, Cornwall, November 18, 2019. 

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Teaching

Olga’s teaching areas include Organisational Behaviour, Strategic Management, Organisational change, Sustainability (CSR), HRM,Project Management, Research Methods. She has experience of teaching at all Higher Education levels (post- and undergraduate), different modes of delivery (full-time, part-time, executive, international, face-to-face, distance learning, online), and cohort sizes. She has successfully designed, validated, delivered and led modules and programmes in a range of subject areas and levels such as Degrees Apprenticeship, MBA, MSc in HRM and MOOC modules.  

Modules

2023/24


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