Role
Dr. Preethi Misha is a senior research fellow focussing on leadership research and employee voice research at Nottingham Business School. Working with Profs. Helen Shipton and Daniel King at the Centre for People, Work and Organizational Practise, Preethi works on research outputs, impact and grant capture. Prior to this, Preethi was the course leader for the online MBA program at Nottingham Business School and taught various modules and provided academic mentorship to postgraduate students at NBS. Preethi tutors on the online MBA on the responsible leadership and values-led organisation modules.
Career overview
Prior to joining NBS in 2015, Preethi worked at investment banks Goldman Sachs, Deutsche bank and Switzerland based reinsurer Swiss Re.
Preethi received the Dean's bursary to commence her PhD at NBS in 2015. During her PhD, she received the prestigious Founders Award from the Society for Business Ethics (SBE) in Chicago in 2018. Preethi also won NTU’s 3-minute thesis competition and subsequently became one of five UK national finalists where she represented NTU in 2019.
Using a mixed methods approach, Preethi works closely with Professors Marius van Dijke and Helen Shipton on projects related to leadership ethics and meaning at the workplace. She successfully defended her PhD on November 20, 2020 and was examined by Prof. Ed Freeman and Dr. Jeroen Camps.
In 2022, the NTSU student-led awards conferred Preethi with the outstanding teaching award for Nottingham Business School. Preethi was also chosen to be a part of the Business and Human Rights (BHR) Young Researcher Summit in St. Gallen, Switzerland for her research on the precarity of the gig economy. Further, she won the CIPD Professor Mick Marchington grant in 2025 which enables her to conduct research on belonging at work.
Research areas
Preethi’s PhD aimed at understanding followers' perspectives in trickle-down effects of unethical leadership.
Sponsors and collaborators
Prof. Marius van Dijke
Prof. Helen Shipton