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# UCL School of Management

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# Shahrzad Nayyeri

Teaching Assistant

Email

[s.nayyeri@ucl.ac.uk](mailto:s.nayyeri@ucl.ac.uk)

#### Biography

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, with a particular focus 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, the reciprocal dynamics of career shocks, and key characteristics of shocks from individuals’ perspectives.

Her research has been published in leading academic journals, including the Journal of Vocational Behaviour and Applied Psychology. She received the King’s Business School GTA Teaching Excellence Award in 2024 and 2025. 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.