Author: Belgin Okay-Somerville
Bio: Dr Belgin Okay-Somerville is a Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow (Scotland, UK). She is a work psychologist by training. Her research focuses on understanding career development, skill utilisation and wellbeing at work, particularly of new entrants to labour markets and young workers. Her published work focuses on the interplay between career agency and labour market structures on new entrants’ employability, wellbeing and employment outcomes. She is an academic member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development, the Academy of Management and the European Association of Work and Organisational Psychology. Belgin is a Senior Editor at Career Development International and an associate editor at EWOP In Practice and Europe's Journal of Psychology.