Portrait of Dr Serena Sohrab

Dr Serena Sohrab

Senior Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour

Bayes Business School, Faculty of Management

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Bunhill Row

Postal address

Bayes Business School
106 Bunhill Row
London
EC1Y 8TZ
United Kingdom

About

Overview

Dr. Serena Sohrab is an award-winning management researcher, educator, and consultant with expertise in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Her research focuses on unravelling the complexities of women's advancement in organizations and society. In her Infertility and Work Lab, she and her team examine the impact of family planning complexities on women's careers. Her research has appeared in outlets such as Harvard Business Review, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Public Relations Review, and Small Group Research.

A passionate advocate of women's economic independence, she has built on her research to lead several non-profit initiatives focused on women's advancement in Canada and abroad. She is the recipient of several prestigious research grants and awards, including Canada's Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Grant (SSHRC), Doctoral Research Award for the Study of Women in Management, and Doctoral Fellowship of Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Serena earned her Ph.D. from the Schulich School of Business in Canada.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Organisational Behaviour, York University, Canada
  • MBA, Sharif University of Technology, Iran
  • BSc in Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran

Employment

  • Senior Lecturer, City, University of London, Aug 2023 – present
  • Visiting Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour, London Business School, Jul 2021 – Jun 2023
  • Associate Professor of Management, Ontario Tech University, Jul 2014 – Jul 2023

Publications

Chapters (2)

  1. Sohrab, S. and Karambayya, R. (2016). Women in Management in Iran. In Richardson, A. and Burke, R. (Eds.), Women in Management Worldwide Signs of progress (pp. 285–308). Abingdon, UK: Routledge Publishing. ISBN 978-1-134-77548-4.
  2. Sohrab, S., Karambayya, R. and Burke, R.J. (2011). Women in Management in Canada. In Davidson, M.J. and Burke, R.J. (Eds.), Women in Management Worldwide Progress and Prospects (pp. 165–181). Surrey, UK: Gower Publishing. ISBN 978-1-00-010959-7.

Internet publications (3)

  1. Sohrab, S., Waller, M.J. and Uitdewilligen, S. (2023). Is Your Team Caught in the Solution Fixation Trap? Harvard Business Review.
  2. Sohrab, S. and Basir, N. (2021). Navigating Work While Undergoing Fertility Treatments. Harvard Business Review.
  3. Sohrab, S. and Basir, N. (2020). Employers, It’s Time to Talk about Infertility. Harvard Business Review.

Journal articles (4)

  1. Sohrab, S.G., Uitdewilligen, S. and Waller, M.J. (2022). The temporal phase structure of team interaction under asymmetric information distribution: The solution fixation trap. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 43(5), pp. 892–911. doi:10.1002/job.2592.

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  2. Stephens, K.K., Waller, M.J. and Sohrab, S.G. (2019). Over-emoting and perceptions of sincerity: Effects of nuanced displays of emotions and chosen words on credibility perceptions during a crisis. Public Relations Review, 45(5), pp. 101841–101841. doi:10.1016/j.pubrev.2019.101841.

    [publisher’s website]

  3. Sohrab, S.G., Waller, M.J. and Kaplan, S. (2015). Exploring the Hidden-Profile Paradigm. Small Group Research, 46(5), pp. 489–535. doi:10.1177/1046496415599068.

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  4. Waller, M.J., Sohrab, G. and Ma, B.W. (2013). Beyond 12 Angry Men. Small Group Research, 44(4), pp. 446–465. doi:10.1177/1046496413487409.

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