Academic biography

Yseult Freeney is a Full Professor of Organisational Psychology in Dublin City University Business School in Ireland and completed her PhD in Psychology in University College Dublin as a Scholar. Her research agenda is driven by a passionate interest in the well-being of employees and in helping them to thrive at work. More specifically, her research contributes to our understanding of how organisations can foster sustainable work engagement and work-life enrichment for employees against a backdrop of increasing work intensification, as well as managing engagement during individual and organisational transitions. Yseult was awarded an IRCHSS Post-doctoral Research Fellowship in 2009 to continue her work in the area of work engagement in Trinity College Dublin. Yseult has extensive experience in leading research within the public sector, and co-designed the Civil Service Employee Engagement Survey in Ireland with Prof. Edel Conway. She also has a deep interest in women's careers and how they navigate transitions and professional relationships after periods of leave.

Yseult Freeney’s publications to date include Organization Science, Human Relations, Journal of Management, Public Management Review, Harvard Business Review, Human Resource Management Journal, International Journal of Nursing Studies, Learning and Individual Differences, and the British Educational Research Journal.  Yseult was a Co-Editor of the Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Management-Organisational Behaviour Volume, an internationally renowned source of state-of-the-art knowledge on the subject.

Finally, Yseult is a regional teaching fellowship and  Associate Dean for Teaching and Learning between May 2018 and December 2021 and again since October 2023. She is committed to excellence in teaching innovation and curriculum renewal.