Dr Stanimira Taneva PhD

• Ph.D. Psychological Measurement (research methodology; equivalent of Psychometrics)
• M.Sc. Work and Organizational Psychology
• M.Sc. Psychology of Development, Education and Culture
• B.Sc. in Psychology (Hons)

Stanimira has been specialising in research impact development and evaluation since 2016. She has been a member of several international and UK-based research impact-related networks and has served as a Knowledge Exchange and Impact mentor. Prior to joining the University of Birmingham, Stanimira worked in research impact development at the University of Nottingham (Knowledge Exchange and Research Impact Manager at the Faculty of Social Sciences, 2019 - 2023) and Loughborough University (Senior Research and Enterprise Associate, 2016 – 2019).

Stanimira’s academic background is in developmental/educational and work/organisational psychologies, as well as psychometrics. Her work experience is a combination of academia and practice – she has been in academic, research, management, and expert roles in the public, private, and third sectors. In the UK and internationally, Stanimira has conducted a variety of academic and applied research programmes in areas such as developing and managing careers, workforce diversity management, work well-being, and performance in organisations, and (research) impact evaluation.

In 2013, Stanimira was awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship from the European Commission for her cross-cultural research on successful ageing at work. Stanimira’s most recent research interests include cross-disciplinary research impact, education policy impact, and the impacts of new technology (AI and robotics) on work, organisations, and the wider society. She has published her research in outlets such as Harvard Business Review, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Work, Aging and Retirement, Personnel Assessment and Decisions, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and Oxford Handbook series. Since 2018, Stanimira has been a fellow at the UK Research and innovation Future Leaders Fellowships programme Peer Review College.

Sample of Recent Journal Articles:

Taneva, S. K. and Peng, Y. (2023). Fostering successful ageing at work:  The role of cognitive job crafting, work certainty, and perceived remaining time at work. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 00, 1 – 22, https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.12475

Day, C. and Taneva, S. K. (2023). Leadership of School Trusts in England During the Pandemic. Leadership and Policy in Schools, https://doi.org/10.1080/15700763.2023.2282538

Warr, P. B., Sánchez-Cardona, I., Taneva, S. K., Vera, M., Bindl, U. K., and Cifre, E. (2021). Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory, approach-affect and avoidance-affect. Cognition and Emotion, https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2020.1855119    

Taneva, S. K. and Yankov, G. P. (2020). A Step Forward: From Conceptualizing to Measuring Successful Aging at Work. Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 13(3), 417-421, https://doi.org/10.1017/iop.2020.64

Coombs, C., Hislop, D., Taneva, S. K., and Barnard, S. (2020). The Strategic Impacts of Intelligent Automation for Knowledge and Service Work: An Interdisciplinary Review. Journal of Strategic Information Systems, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsis.2020.101600

Taneva, S. K. and Yankov, G. P. (2020). A New Perspective to Measuring Employee Growth: Developing a Successful Aging at Work Scale. Personnel Assessment and Decisions, 6(1), 48-62, https://doi.org/10.25035/pad.2020.01.005 

Sample of Reports: 

Noyes, A., Adkins, M., and Taneva, S. (2022). Glasses in Classes: a two-armed cluster randomised trial: Evaluation report, Education Endowment Foundation, https://d2tic4wvo1iusb.cloudfront.net/documents/projects/GiC-Evaluation-Report-Dec-2022.pdf

Day, C. and Taneva, S. K. (2021). Policymaking in disruptive times: the development and impact of School Trust-designed policies on teacher and student outcomes, UoN and CST, Part II, Available at https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/crelm/documents/policy-making.pdf

Hislop, D., Coombs, C., Taneva, S. K., Barnard, S. (2017). The Impact of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation Technologies on Work. London: CIPD, Available at https://www.cipd.co.uk/Images/impact-of-artificial-intelliegnce-exec-summary_tcm18-33882.pdf

1. Advancing and Evaluating the Societal Impact of Science (AESIS, international network; member)
2. Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP, international network, member)
3. UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships Peer Review College (fellow)
4. Association of Research Managers and Administrators UK (ARMA UK, member)