Carina Schott is an assistant professor at the Utrecht University School of Governance (USG). She conducts research at the intersection of Public Management, Psychology and HRM in the public sector, and she is coordinator of the master's programme SHRM.
Her work focuses on:
- the motivation, well-being and the sense of social belonging of public sector employees
- the changing nature of work and work environment of professionals
- leadership in various public sectors (in particular, education, healthcare and inspection services).
In her work she applies and combines qualitative and quantitative methods but she is also interested in theory building. She regularly publishes in leading journals in her field, such as Public Management Review (PMR), Public Administration (PA), Human Resource Management Review (HRMR) and Review of Public Personnel Administration (ROPPA). Her work has been featured in Dutch media oulets such as Nu.nl en BNR.
Carina is co-chair at two international conferences: the EGPA permanent study group III on Public Personnel Policies and the Special Interest Group on Public Service Motivation during the annual IRSPM conference. She is also closely involved in the Future of Work platform - which is part of the university-wide strategic theme Institutions for Open Societies - and she is a member of the editorial boards of international scientific journals (ROPPA, IJPA). In 2023, Carina has been awarded a NWO Open Competition SGW grant XS, which allows her to systematically examine the added value of social belonging interventions in public work places.
Carina teaches various courses at Bachelor, Minor and (Research) Master level, and she is also active in the executive and PhD training programme. In 2019, students nominated her for the USG teacher of the year award. In addition, she supervises two PhD research projects.