Business Management, Leadership, Intelligent Automation, Posthumanism, Organizational Behaviour, Corporate Social Responsibility, Marketing, Operations Management

Luciana has gained her PhD in Business Management from the University of Aberdeen and is a holder of the Elphinstone Scholarship 2018 and British Federation of Women Graduates funding 2020. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy,  member of the Chartered Management Institute, and part of the Editorial Board for the Scottish University Press. She has worked in the public, private and third sectors, for 12 years before moving to academia. Her research investigates Intelligent Automation systems (including AI, RPA and chatbots) and their impact on organisational behaviour, reuniting findings from science and technology studies, business management and computing science. Her work uses qualitative and quantitative research methods to explore emerging behaviours and understandings of technology from the perspective of stakeholders within and outside the organisation.

She has delivered guest lectures, seminars and conference presentations for audiences in the UK, Dubai, Taiwan, US and Australia in the areas of Intelligent Automation, Management, AI and Qualitative Research Methods. Currently, her work focuses on the areas of organizational behaviour and Intelligent Automation systems, and AI stakeholder management for good.

Current projects under supervision:

• Mobile Learning In Higher Educational Institutes and Its Impact on Development (An assessment of the Ghanaian Experience), Daniel Abbiw Jackson (DBA)
• Investigating the connection between leadership-related challenges and digital transformation: a UK senior-level executive perspective, Chuks Anochie (DBA)
• The Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Automation on Controls within Barclays PLC (GA)
• Online engagement within the MS Society: an analysis of the impact for staff, volunteers, and stakeholders particularly post Covid-19 pandemic (GA)
• The importance of Face-To-Face informal non-work-related communications on team collaboration of a hybrid team (UG)