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Lila joined the Business School in July 2020. She has served as theÌýProgramme Director of the MSc Human Resource Management (2021-2024) and the Academic Director of the Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability Committee (2021-2024) of the Business School. Her teaching focuses on Business Ethics and Responsible Business at an undergraduate and postgraduate level, and her research interests include flexible work, the sociology of work, the professions, and professional ethics. She has also done extensiveÌýresearch on the transnational healthcare market.ÌýLila is a Fellow of the HEA.

Research Funding

• 'Where does work belong anymore? The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on working in the UK' (co-investigator) - UK Research and Innovation Ideas to Address Covid-19.Ìý
• 'Integrating the SDGs into HEI degrees accredited by professional bodies: the case of CIPD TPG accredited degrees’ - UK and Ireland UN PRME Chapter, November 2018, seed funding

Academic Journal Articles & Selected book chapters

• Skountridaki, L. and Mallett, O.Ìý(Forthcoming). ‘I can just do work I’m paid to do’: Hybrid work and tertiary labour time gains. Industrial Relations Journal.ÌýÌý
• Skountridaki, L., Lee, W. V., & Rouhani, L. (2024). Missing voices: Office space discontent as a driving force in employee hybrid work preferences.ÌýIndustrial Relations Journal, 55, pp.54–77 Ìý
• Marks A, Mallett O & Skountridaki L (2024) The increasing burden of work. In: Proctor S (ed.)ÌýA Research Agenda for Work and Employment. Cheltenham.
• Marks A, Mallett O, Skountridaki L & Zschomler D (2024) Future of working at home. In: Forson C, Healy G, Ozturk MB & Tatli A (eds.)ÌýResearch Handbook on Inequalities and Work. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.Ìý
• Skountridaki L, Zschomler D, Marks A & Mallett O (2020) Organisational support for the work-life balance of home-based workers.ÌýThe Work-Life Balance Bulletin, Vol. 4, No. 2. 01.12.2020, pp. 16-22.Ìý
• Mallett O, Marks A & Skountridaki L (2020) Where does work belong anymore? The implications of intensive homebased working. Gender in Management: An International Journal. 35 (7/8) pp. 657-665.Ìý
• Barron A. and Skountridaki L. (2020) The Role of Professionalism in Corporate Political Activity – Towards a Professions-Based Understanding of Ethical and Responsible lobbying, Business & Society, pp.1–32.Ìý
• Skountridaki L (2019) The Patient-Doctor Relationship in the Transnational Healthcare Context, Sociology of Health and Illness, 41(8), pp.1685-1705.Ìý
• Bolton S, Charalampopoulos V, and Skountridaki L (2019) Selective Consent and Dissent: Professional Response to Reform in the Post-crisis Greek NHS, Work, Employment and Society, 33(2), pp. 262-279.Ìý
• Skountridaki L (2017) Barriers to Business Relations between Medical Tourism Facilitators and Medical Professionals, Tourism Management, 59, pp. 254-266.Ìý
• Bolton S and Skountridaki L (2017) The Medical Tourist and a Political Economy of Care, Antipode: a Radical Journal of Geography,Ìý 49 (2), pp. 499-516.Ìý
• Skountridaki L (2015) The Internationalisation of Healthcare and Business Aspirations of Medical Professionals, Sociology, 49 (3), pp. 471-487.Ìý

Lila joined the Business School from the University of Stirling, where she wasÌýa Lecturer in Management and Sustainable Practice. She was also a member of the General University Ethics Panel and the faculty Lead on the UN Principles for Responsible Management Education. She obtained her PhD from the Department of Management, Strathclyde University Business School in 2014.

She studied Economics at the Athens University of Economics and Business in Greece (BSc) and the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (MSc). Before starting her PhD, Lila worked for Quality Control and Accounting Departments in the private sector in Germany and Greece.

My research focuses on the work experiences of expert labour and home-based and hybrid workers (skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled). I have undertaken research on the working lives of Medical Doctors in Greece and Turkey, Lobbyists in Brussels, Data Scientists in Scotland and most recently home-based and hybrid workers in the UK. I generally take a sociological approach (sociology of work, the sociology of the professions, or medical sociology) often blended with organisation studies’ theories (such as institutional theory) and ethics (such as the ethics of care, business and professional ethics). I have published across organisation and management studies, sociology and employment relations, medical sociology, radical geography and business ethics. Whilst trained as an economist and with a strong quantitative background, I am fascinated by qualitative research. As such, I mostly design qualitative research studies and when deemed most suitable I engage in mixed-methods research, combining qualitative and quantitative data.

Since Spring 2020 I have been participating in and leading a number of research projects on working lives and flexible work, includingÌýremote work, hybrid work and the 4 day workweek.

In particular, I workedÌýon a UKRI/ESRC fundedÌýproject examining the experience of home working in the UK underÌýthe COVID-19 lockdown measures (April 2020 - Sep 2021). ThisÌýstudy wasÌýbased on rich qualitativeÌýand survey data and exploredÌýa number of aspects of homeworking, including the effect ofÌýsocio-economic background, gender, organisational support and caring responsibilities on productivity and well being.Ìý

Between December 2020 and 2022, I ledÌýthe Research Insights stream of the University of Edinburgh Hybrid Work Group. The Research Insights streamÌýoffered rich insight to the development of the University's Hybrid Work Framework drawing on the analysis ofÌýtwo university-wide surveys and as well as rich qualitative data with members of staff from across the UniversityÌý(focus groups).

I have also recently completed a research partnership with a business organisation in the tech industry trialling the 4 day week. The research involvedÌýqualitative and quantitative data collection which are used to inform the organisation's decision making on the 4 day week.