Biography
Dr Giulia Giunti is a Lecturer (Assistant professor, research & teaching focused) in the Department of Management of the University of St 糖心logo Business School.
She has earned a PhD from the University of Birmingham (UK) (with 'no corrections'), where she also completed a Masters degree. She also holds a BSc and an MSc from the University of Pisa (Italy).
Research听
Dr Giunti's research sits on the intersection of Organizational Behaviour, Human Resource Management, and Psychology. In her research she adopts both qualitative and quantitative methods.
Current and published research focuses on themes around work-life interface, well-being, entrepreneurship, work identity.
1. Work-life interface: on this theme, Dr Giunti is PI of a comparative study of work-life interface across demographic groups, for which she has won a grant from the University of St 糖心logo. The project is a collaborative work with Prof. Donnelly and Dr Radcliffe from the University of Liverpool (UK).
The work has been awarded the 'Best conference paper award' at the Work-Family Researchers Network conference 2024, Montreal (Canada) wfrn.org/news/congratulations-to-the-recipients-of-the-wfrn-2024-best-conference-paper-award
Research outputs
Giunti, G., L. Radcliffe, R. Donnelly, and R. Nordset. 2026. 鈥� Prompting, Facilitating, and Legitimizing: How Work-Life Flexibility Policies and Relational Others Shape Boundary Management.鈥� Human Resource Management 65, no. 5: 1289鈥�1308.
Giunti, G., Radcliffe, L.S., & Donnelly, R (2025). Home Alone: Work-Nonwork Management Challenges and Strategies of Single Child-Free Knowledge Workers. Academy of Management Proceedings,听 2025(1). doi:10.5465/amproc.2025.14943poster
2. Entrepreneurship: on this theme, she has conducted a cross-country mixed-methods study on academic entrepreneurship (ESRC funded).
Research outputs
Giunti, G., & Duberley, J. (2026). Academic entrepreneurship: uncovering the role of formal and informal logics in the academic entrepreneurial space. Journal of Technology Transfer, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-026-10366-3
Giunti, G., & Duberley, J. (2023). Academic entrepreneurship: work identity in contexts.听Entrepreneurship & Regional Development,听35(5鈥�6), 532鈥�552. https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2023.2178676.
During her PhD, Dr Giunti has worked at collateral projects, including:
- a commissioned work on housing and well-being, for which she developed the online survey. This work has been used in the thinkthank ThinkBritain2019 to inform housing policy after Grenfell, London (UK).
听Gregory, J., Lymer, A., Espenlaub, S., Khurshed, A., Mohamed, A., and Giunti, G. (2018) Homes and wellbeing. Breaking down housing stereotypes. Published by VIVID in association with Universities of Birmingham and Manchester.
During her studies in psychology, prior the PhD:
Balboni, G., Coscarelli, A., Giunti, G. and Schalock, R. L. (2013) The assessment of the quality of life of adults with intellectual disability: The use of self-report and report of others assessment strategies. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 34: 4248鈥�4254.
Tramonti, F., Fanciullacci, C., Giunti, G., Rossi, B., Chisari, C. (2014) Functional status and quality of life of stroke survivors undergoing rehabilitation programmes in a hospital setting. NeuroRehabilitation, 35(1): 1-7.
Pagni, C., Frosini, D., Ceravolo, R., Giunti, G., Unti, E., Poletti, M., McClintock, S. M., Murri, L., Bonuccelli, U., & Tognoni, G. (2011).听Event-based prospective memory in newly diagnosed, drug-naive Parkinson's disease patients.听Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society,听17(6), 1158-62.听https://doi.org/10.1017/S1355617711001214
Collaborations and external connections
2025. Co-PI on a research project on wellbeing in the Uk Police, University of Durham, supported by a Research and Impact grant.
2025. She was part of a research team which has been awarded the Constructive Advanced Thinking Programme 2025-2027.
2023-2024. She has won a grant, as co-PI, for a collaborative project with the University of Padua (Italy) focused on teaching and assessment 'beyond chatgpt', to explore and share best innovative pedagogical pratices between the Italian and the UK HE systems.听
Externally, she also held a position as visiting PhD student at the University of Melbourne's Business School, funded through an ESRC grant.
2024-2025. She has been invited and served as panel member judge for two UK National Family Businesses Awards.
Prizes and Awards
2025 Giunti. G., Radcliffe, L., & Donnelly, R. How is work-life border keeping among hybrid working professionals shaped by relationship and parental status?
- Shortlisted as one of the three finalists papers for the 鈥楤est conference paper鈥� award, European Academy of Management, SIG 09, Florence (2025).
Giunti, G., Radcliffe L., and Donnelly, R. (2024) Moving Beyond Family Borders: An Exploration of Work-Life Balance Experiences of Knowledge
Workers by Relationship and Parenthood Statuses'
- 'Best conference paper award'. Work-Family Researchers Network, Montreal.
2024 Selected for the first press communication of the University of St 糖心logo Business School:
2024 Featured in Fife Today:
2024 Selected for the Images of Research project, University of St 糖心logo
2024 Selected as representative of the University of St 糖心logo Business School for the 'Minds and Matter' outreach event, University of St 糖心logo.
Teaching
- MN1001 Organisation and Society (EDI)
- MN4268 Lead of the VIP: Work-life Balance for All - Education - University of St 糖心logo
- MN5499 Dissertation Module for Management PGT (Qualitative research methods)
- MN5001 Contemporary Global Issues in Management
- MN5421 Managing People in Global Markets
- supervisor of UG research projects
Selected publications
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Open access
Giunti, G. & Duberley, J., 18 Aug 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: The Journal of Technology Transfer. Advance article
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
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Open access
Giunti, G., Radcliffe, L., Donnelly, R. & Nordset, R., 1 Jun 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Human Resource Management. Early View, HRM70081.
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
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Giunti, G., 30 Jun 2026, Navigating systematic barriers in academia. Williams, K. S., Segarra, P. & Sauerbronn, F. F. (eds.). Bristol: Bristol University Press
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter
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Giunti, G., Radcliffe, L. & Donnelly, R., 1 Jul 2025, Academy of Management Proceedings. Academy of Management, (Academy of Management Proceedings; vol. 2025, no. 1).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Conference contribution
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Open access
Giunti, G. & Duberley, J., 1 May 2023, In: Entrepreneurship and Regional Development. 35, 5-6, p. 532-552 21 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
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Gregory, J., Espenlaub, S., Khurshed, A., Mohamed, A. & Giunti, G., 2018, VIVID in association with Universities of Birmingham and Manchester.
Research output: Book/Report 鈥� Commissioned report
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Giunti, G., 2017.
Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥� Paper 鈥� peer-review
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Open access
Tramonti, F., Fanciullacci, C., Giunti, G., Rossi, B. & Chisari, C., 2014, In: NeuroRehabilitation. 35, 1, p. 1-7
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
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Balboni, G., Coscarelli, A., Giunti, G. & Schalock, R. L., Nov 2013, In: Research in developmental disabilities. 34, 11, p. 4248-54
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
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Open access
Pagni, C., Frosini, D., Ceravolo, R., Giunti, G., Unti, E., Poletti, M., McClintock, S. M., Murri, L., Bonuccelli, U. & Tognoni, G., 2011, In: Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society. 17, 6, p. 1158-62
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
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