Dr. Ivona Hideg, Principal Investigator

Ivona Hideg is Professor of Organization Studies at Saïd Business School and Management and Governing Body Fellow at Jesus College at the University of Oxford. She is currently on leave from the Schulich School of Business at York University where she serves as Ann Brown Chair in Organization Studies. She previously served as an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Organizational Leadership in the Lazaridis School of Business & Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University. She holds a Ph.D. in OB/HRM from the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, and MSc in I/O Psychology from the University of Waterloo. 

Ivona is a passionate researcher and educator. Her main program of research includes workplace equity, diversity, and inclusion. In her research, she focuses on gender, but also examines issues surrounding race, ethnicity, and language (e.g., non-native accents) and intersectionality of different identities. She has published in outlets such as Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology,  Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Psychological Science, and Sex Roles, among others. Her work has been featured in numerous media outlets including Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, and Globe and Mail. Her work has been funded by Early Researcher Award from the Ontario Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). 

She has been awarded with Research Fellowship with the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School (2019-2020), and she was a visiting faculty at the University of Western Australia Business School in 2020, University of Amsterdam in 2018, Católica Lisbon (Portugal) in 2016, and RMIT University in Melbourne in 2014. Her research has also received numerous awards including the 2019 Distinguished Winner of the Responsible Research in Management Award at the Academy of Management and 2022 runner-up for Academic Research with Impact award by Financial Times. She served  as an Associate Editor at the Academy of Management Journal and is currently serving on the Methods Advisory Panel at Administrative Science Quarterly.  She has also served on numerous editorial boards including  Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Management, and Organizational Psychology Review.

She is currently serving on the executive team of the Canadian Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (CSIOP) as a Past-Chair and last year she served as a Chair; and she served on a Board of Directors at Focus for Ethnic Women, a non-profit organization. She has also consulted for the federal government of Canada on parental leave policies and the recruitment of women into the Canadian Armed Forces. She has also given talks at numerous universities (e.g., University of Cambridge, Harvard University, University of Amsterdam, University of Western Australia, etc.) and at industry events (e.g., Leadership Global Summit organized by European House-Ambrosetti).

Ivona supervises a lab consisting of highly motivated and intellectually curious students. We currently have a number of projects examining diversity, equality, and equity issues ranging from the effect of work-family policies on women’s and men’s careers, underrepresentation of women in top leadership positions, to employees with accent and from different socio-economic backgrounds, among many other projects. We welcome new collaborators and new students!

On a personal note, Ivona is a proud mom of two young kids! She is also an avid traveller and enjoys spending her free time and vacations traveling with her husband, Andrej, and their kids Angelina and Aleksandra, exploring new cultures and food! Their favorite countries so far have been Australia (the whole family fell in love with Perth!), Portugal (loved Lisbon!), Peru, Spain, and the Netherlands. They were also thrilled with Hawaii (but not for its beaches) and found a hike on an active volcano quite an extraordinary experience! The next thing on their agenda is to semi-learn French (to be able to help their kids with school and hopefully help them travel to more French speaking countries) and, of course, travel more! 

Ivona is currently living in Oxford, UK, with her family.

Ivona Hideg's CV [Last updated September 2024]