Project Title: Three essays on career shocks: exploring the role of context, reciprocal dynamics, and event salience

Supervisor: Dr Ricardo Rodrigues, Professor David Guest

Year of Entry: 2021, Full-time

Shahrzad Nayyeri is a PhD student in Management Studies at King’s Business School, King’s College London, where she was awarded a full doctoral research scholarship. Shahrzad employs qualitative methods to explore individuals' careers and professional lives, particularly focusing on underrepresented groups and those in extreme contexts. Her PhD dissertation focuses on career shock experiences, exploring the role of context in shaping these experiences, reciprocal dynamics of career shocks, and key characteristics of shocks from individuals' perspectives.

Her research has been published in leading academic journals such as the Journal of Vocational Behavior and Applied Psychology. In 2024, she received the King’s Business School GTA Teaching Excellence Award. Her paper on the reciprocal dynamics of career shocks received the Best Doctoral Symposium Paper award at the British Academy of Management conference in 2023.

Shahrzad earned her BA in Public Administration with distinction from the University of Tehran, her Master’s in Public Administration from Allameh Tabataba'i University, and her first Ph.D. in Media Management from the University of Tehran, all in Iran.