Cinla is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) of Management at University of St Andrews Business School. Previously she held faculty positions at the University of Surrey's Business School.

Cinla received her PhD in Management and Organisational Behaviour from University of Surrey. She also holds MSc in International Business Management from University of Surrey, and BA(Hons) in Business and Economics from Trent University (Canada). In 2013, she attained the Fellow status of the UK Higher Education Academy.

Cinla’s research focuses on intuition in decision making and organisational learning. She is particularly interested in exploring uncertain and dynamic decision environments. She has undertaken extensive fieldwork with the police organisations in the UK to investigate the use of intuition in strategic and operational decision making processes.

Her research also explores forecasting, improvisation and strategic collaboration, and extends to other decision making contexts such as entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation. Cinla is experienced in mixed-method research with particular interest and expertise in qualitative methods.

Cinla’s research has been published in leading journals including Organization Studies, British Journal of Management, Human Resource Management Journal, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, and International Journal of Management Reviews. Her research has been funded by the British Academy/ Leverhulme Trust, Carnegie Trust, and The College of Policing. 

Cinla has been teaching Behavioural Decision Making for over a decade. She is the Impact Lead in the Department of Management and is a member of the Global Research Centre for Diverse Intelligences.

Her previous career experience includes business development in the finance sector and project management in non-governmental organisations. 

Decision making, intuition, cognitive processes, forecasting, top management teams, organisational learning, organisational behaviour.

Decision making; intuition; organisational learning

MN4244 Behavioural Decision Making
SS5101 Being A Social Scientist