Dr. Anna Viragos
- Position: Associate Professor in Organizational Psychology
- Areas of expertise: Organizational behaviour; organizational psychology; job design; job crafting; proactive behaviours; prosocial behaviours; OCB; employee performance; green behaviours; diversity, creativity, wellbeing
- Email: A.Viragos@leeds.ac.uk
- Phone: +44(0)113 343 0604
- Location: G.15 Charles Thackrah building
- Website: LinkedIn | Researchgate | ORCID
Profile
2024 July-present:Director of PGR studies, Management and Organizations Department
2024 February-July: Deputy Director of PGR studies for the Management Department
2023 September-present: Associate Professor in Management
2022 September-2024 July: Subject Group Leader for the Enhancing Management Learning (EML) Subject Group
2019-2022 Co-Subject Group Leader for the Enhancing Management Learning (EML) Subject Group
2019 October-2023 September: Lecturer in Management
2018 March-present: Joint Subject Group Leader for the Enhancing Management Learning (EML) Subject Group
2017 September-2019 September:Teaching Fellow at Leeds University Business School.
Publications:
- Unsworth, K., Viragos, A., & Song, L. (2023) In Handbook of Organizational Creativity: Leadership, Interventions, and Macro level issues. Chapter 20:Job design and creativity: Lessons learnt and new schools of thought.
- Hill, L., & Viragos, A. (2020). Book Review: Internationalization and Employability in Higher Education By Robert Coelen and Cate Gribble (Editors). New York, NY: Routledge, 2019. 262 pages, paperback. Academy of Management Learning & Education
- Costantini, A., Ceschi, A, Viragos, A., De Paola, F., Sartori, R. (2019). The role of a new strength-based intervention on organisation-based self-esteem and work engagement: A three-wave intervention study, Journal of Workplace Learning, 31 (3), pp.194-206, https://doi.org/10.1108/JWL-07-2018-0091
Conference presentations:
- Marsden, H., Viragos, A. (2022). The impact of Covid 19 on the wellbeing of teachers. BAM Annual Conference
- Mottershaw, S, Viragos, A. (2022). Online or face-to-face? That is the question. UKAT Annual Conference.
- Smith, N., Viragos, A. (2021). A mismatch between programme of study and interests. What can we do? UKAT Annual Conference.
- Gritt, E., Forsgren, E., Viragos, A., Irnazarow, A., Unsworth, K., Song, L., Pugh, D. (2021). Policing Beyond the Pandemic: The Transformation of Police Work Practices in Response to the Crisis. ‘Ideas in Practice’ Realising Digital Change in Policing: Policing, Information and Data. Leeds
- Zaman, T., Viragos, A., Zygiaris, S. (2020). One frame at a time: The dynamics of a change project, end-users and digitally transformed United Kingdom National Health Service (NHS). Academy of Management Conference.
- Mottershaw, S., Viragos, A., Smith, N., & Braham, J. (2019). Personal tutorial models: Attendance and Engagement. British Academy of Management Management, Knowledge, Education Conference, York
- Viragos, A., Leach, D.J., & Davis, M.C. (2018). The role of Task Prosocial Job Crafting in predicting supervisor ratings of performance. British Academy of Management Conference, Bristol.
- Viragos, A., Leach, D. J., & Davis, M.C. (2017). Investigating Job Crafting from a prosocial perspective: The development and validation of the Prosocial Job Crafting Measure. European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology Conference, Dublin.
- Viragos, A., Leach, D. J. & Davis, M.C. (2016). Investigating Job Crafting from a prosocial perspective. IWP International Conference, Sheffield.
- Unsworth, K., Pieniazek, R., & Viragos, A. (2016) Objective Measures: The Good, the Bad, and the Alternatives”. British Academy of Management Conference, Newcastle.
- Viragos, A., Leach, D. J. & Davis, M.C. (2015). Prosocial Job Crafting. British Psychological Society, Division of Occupational Psychology, Glasgow.
Awards and scholarships:
- 2019: Award for Outstanding Academic Performance for my PhD thesis from the University of Leeds
- 2018: Award for Best Full Paper in Organizational Psychology, British Academy of Management Conference, Bristol. https://business.leeds.ac.uk/research-wbrc/news/article/112/postgraduate-researcher-anna-viragos-wins-best-paper-award
- 2014: University Research Scholarship from the University of Leeds
- 2014: Award for Outstanding MSc Dissertation, Leeds University Business School
- 2013: Maurice Keyworth MSc Scholarship from Leeds University Business School
- 2009: ISEP Scholarship from San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA.
- 2007: ERASMUS Scholarship to the Martin Luther University, Halle, Germany.
Responsibilities
- Director of PGR studies, Management and Organizations Department
- Head of Year 2 UG Management
- Faculty Values Champion for MOD
Qualifications
- PhD in Organizational Psychology, LUBS
- MSc in Organizational Psychology (Distinction), LUBS
- MA in Psychology, University of Debrecen
- BA in Psychology, University of Debrecen
Professional memberships
- Chartered Psychologist of the British Psychological Society (BPS)
- Committee member of Division of Occupational Psychology (DOP BPS)
- Fellow of the HEA (FHEA)
- Chartered Management & Business Educator (CMBE)
- RQTU (BPS)
- British Academy of Management (BAM)
- Academy of Management (AOM)
Student education
I currently lead the module Management Research and Analysis (LUBS2910) for BA Business Management, and the module Occupational Psychology (LUBS5315M) for MA Human Resource Management. I also teach on both PG and UG modules. I teach on the module Systems Thinking and Consulting Practice (LUBS5385M) for MSc Organizational/Business Psychology, on the module Behaviour in Organizations (LUBS5961M) for MSc Management, and on the Dissertation module for a variety of PG programmes (LUBS5970M). For UG, I teach on the Dissertation/Project in Management module (LUBS3345) and on Innovation Thinking and Practice (LUBS3990). I am an academic personal tutor, supervise both UG and PG Dissertations, and act as a PhD supervisor.
PhD students supervised to completion:
Dr Sanjay Popat: Sanjay’s PhD research was featured on TedX, German national TV, and the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/mar/14/harrowing-work-pressure-giving-nhs-junior-doctors-panic-attacks-study-finds and he also won the Outstanding Academic Performance Prize for PhD in the Faculty of Business in 2023 from LUBS, and the prestigious Grigor McClelland Doctoral Dissertation award
Dr Scarlet Lausen: Scarlet's PhD focused on the Antecedents and consequences of CEO activism. https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/35613/
Research groups and institutes
- Workplace Behaviour Research Centre