People

Prof Karin S. Moser, PhD

Welcome to my Lab!

I am a Full Professor in Social and Organisational Psychology / Organisational Behaviour and currently affiliated with the Swiss Distance University, the University of Queensland in Australia as Honorary Professor in Social and Organisational Psychology, and the Centre for Continuing Edudation at the University of Bern, Switzerland. My background is in Social Psychology (PhD, MSc), with additional qualifications in Computer Science (MSc) and Social Anthropology (MSc) and I hold both, a Swiss Baccalaureate and a USA High School Diploma.

My Expertise and my Passions

My research, teaching and consulting focuses on cooperation, communication, and decision-making at work. I am passionate about understanding the conditions for prosocial behaviour and social sustainability in groups and organisations, with a special interest in the effects of digitalisation, intercultural differences and social norms, and the perceived costs and benefits in knowledge sharing and expertise transfer.

I often work interdisciplinary, drawing from theoretical approaches in organisational and social psychology, behavioural economics, and cognitive science, using a wide range of methods, from experimental studies, surveys, interviews to workplace interventions. I am very interested in research that uses rigorous methods such as experimental or multilevel designs and at the same time has a high transfer value to benefit corporate practice and leadership.

My work has been widely published in both top academic journals in my field as well as in practitioner outlets and received international recognition with multiple awards and honorary professorships. I have received extensive funding, from industry as well as research councils internationally, and have worked closely with corporate and public sector clients often in a combination of research projects, consulting, and executive training. I have been interviewed by and my research has been featured in major international news outlets, such as the BBC World Business Report, a BBC Documentary Film, Financial Times, Wired Magazine, TechMonitor, GQ Magazine, and NZZ.

Work outside of Academia

Before I became an academic, I enjoyed training and performing Modern Dance internationally. I also worked in the private sector as customer relations assistant in a bank, as head of an editorial team of a monthly magazine, and as project lead in international market research. In addition, I did volunteer work in Lyon, France, in several social work projects. I mostly grew up in Switzerland and have since worked and lived in a number of countries, and very much enjoy experiencing different cultures and working with people from around the world. My past life outside of academia also led to my interest in consulting and in research and teaching with very concrete applications in the workplace and in working with practitioners, executives and organisations to support the knowledge transfer between academia and practice that characterises my work today.

Previous Academic Appointments

LSBU Business School, London, UK, Full Professor in Organisational Behaviour
Founder and Director of the London Centre for Business and Entrepreneurship Research LCBER
University of Cambridge, Winton Centre for Risk & Evidence Communication, Professorial Affiliate
University of Singapore, NUS Business School, Centre on AI Technology for Humankind, Professorial Affiliate
London Metropolitan University, School of Business and Law, UK, Honorary Professor
Co-Founder and Steering Group Centre for Organisational Studies, Roehampton University London, UK
Roehampton University London, UK, Associate Professor in Social and Organisational Psychology
Aston Business School, UK, Visiting Professor, Work and Organizational Psychology Group
University of Göttingen, Germany, Endowed Research Chair Social and Economic Psychology (C3)
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA, Senior Visiting Fellow (Prof. Joe McGrath), Social Psychology
University of Zurich, Assistant Professor in Social Psychology, Switzerland
ETH Zurich, Senior Lecturer in Work Psychology and CI InnoSwiss interdisciplinary research consortium on Knowledge Management, Switzerland
University of St. Gallen, Lecturer, Research Institute for Organizational Psychology, Switzerland
Dresden University of Technology and University of Trier, both in Germany, Doctoral Research Fellow
University of Bern, Switzerland, Research Associate in a SNSF Project on Gender Equality in the Transition from University to Work

Academic Leadership and Service

Rector (President), UniDistance Suisse, Brig, Switzerland
Academic Mentor for the Swiss Psychological Society (SGP)
Founder and Director London Centre for Business and Entrepreneurship Research LCBER, UK
Lead Digital Economy Research Group, LSBU Business School, UK
Dean of Research & Enterprise and Executive Team, LSBU Business School, UK
Head of Department for Management, Marketing and People, LSBU Business School, UK
Co-Founder and Steering Group Centre for Organisational Studies, Roehampton University London, UK
Member University Ethics committee, Roehampton University London, UK
Member of the University Equality Commission, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Lead University Continuing Education courses on research methods, mentoring for women in science, knowledge management, virtual work and academic leadership, University of Bern, Switzerland
Member of professorial appointment committees at various universities (continuously since 2002), with chairing and decision-making responsibilities for hiring new professors since 2016