Ioulia Bessa is an Associate Professor. 

Her research focus includes non-standard forms of employment and their connection to precarity, underemployment/unemployment, as well as the use of quantitative instruments and methods to measure and understand precarity in different recessionary contexts including the post-BREXIT and post-Covid-19 period and also in the platform economy.

Ioulia is very interested in looking at how precarious and uncertain periods affect mental health, wellbeing, life and job satisfaction. She has used a range of secondary datasets (UK national and international) and has published in a number of different journals in the area of Industrial Relations and Sociology of work, such as Work, Employment and Society, British Journal of Industrial Relations and Human Relations Management. She is currently Editor at Work, Employment and Society.