Zella King

Zella King is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Management and an AIM Innovation Fellow. She teaches Strategic Human Resource Management and supervises PhD students with interests in: social networks; human capital, career management and employability. Zella has a BA in Social and Political Sciences from Cambridge University and a PhD in Occupational Psychology from Birkbeck College, London. Before joining the academic world, she worked for five years as a Consultant for Accenture, and as a Corporate Finance Executive for the investment bank Schroders. After completing her PhD, she was funded by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) as a Research Fellow at King's College, London. She joined the University of Reading in 2002. Between 2005 and 2007 was the Director of a Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. In 2007 she was awarded a Fellowship of the Advanced Institute of Management Research, as one of a group of Innovation Fellows researching issues relating to the UK's innovation performance.