Dr Giulia Giunti joined the University of St Andrews as an Associate Lecturer in 2019. Prior to that she earned a PhD at 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 

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 Andrews. 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

2. Entrepreneurship: on this theme, she has conducted a cross-country mixed-methods study on academic entrepreneurship, drawing on the concept of work identity, and contributing to the literature of entrepreneurship with a redefinition of academic entrepreneurship through a social entrepreneurship lens. This work originates from Dr Giunti's PhD project, which was funded by ESRC.

Publication: Giunti, G., & Duberley, J. (2023). Academic entrepreneurship: work identity in contexts. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 35(5–6), 532–552. https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2023.2178676.

3. Well-being: Dr Giunti is conducting a study on wellbeing in the UK Police, for which she has won, as co-PI, a 'research and impact' grant from the University of Durham (2025).

During her PhD, Dr Giunti has worked at collateral projects, including the 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).

Publication: 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. https://www.vividhomes.co.uk/media/516/homes-and-wellbeing-full-report.pdf

4. Quality of life: on this theme, during her studies in psychology, she has worked at various research projects on quality of life, as well as memory.

Publications: 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: 4248–4254.

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). Event-based prospective memory in newly diagnosed, drug-naive Parkinson's disease patients. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 17(6), 1158-62. 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 is 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. 

Externally, she also held a position as visiting PhD student at the University of Melbourne's Business School, funded through an ESRC grant.

She is fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies.

2024-2025. She has been invited and served as panel member judge for two UK National Family Businesses Awards.

Prizes and Awards

2024 'Best conference paper award'. Work-Family Researchers Network, Montreal.

2024 Selected for the first press communication of the University of St Andrews Business School:

2024 Selected for the Images of Research project, University of St Andrews

2024 Selected as representative of the University fo St Andrews Business School for the 'Minds and Matter' outreach event, University of St Andrews.

Teaching

• MN1001 Organisation and Society (EDI)
• MN4268 Equality and Diversity in Organisations
• MN5499 Dissertation Module for Management PGT (Qualitative research methods)
• MN4100 Contemporary Issues in Management
• MN5421 Managing People in Global Markets
• supervisor of UG research projects

Academic entrepreneurship; work identity; social entrepreneurship; work-life interface.