Dr Leonora Nana Adwoa Amponsah-Asante is a researcher and educator whose work spans organisational behaviour, human resource management, management, construction management and the built environment. She was awarded a PhD in Business Studies and Management (Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour) by the University of Southampton in October 2026. She is currently a Visiting Researcher at the University of Southampton, where she continues to engage in academic research and scholarly activities.
Her doctoral research examined how organisational silence is created, transmitted and sustained in project-based organisations, with attention to leadership, employee voice, workplace relationships and organisational processes.
Her research uses qualitative, constructivist and interpretivist approaches, including case studies, in-depth interviews and thematic analysis. She has contributed to research projects at the University of Southampton Business School and the School of Electronics and Computer Science. Her work has included interviews with external workplace coaches about professional development and identity, and research on the policy, industry, ethical and socioeconomic dimensions of space debris. She has experience in research design, data collection, coding, analysis and academic writing, and supports researchers and students in the use of NVivo, ATLAS.ti and Stata.
Leonora has approximately eight years of university teaching experience. She is currently a Teaching Assistant at Southampton Business School, supporting Introduction to Management (MANG1003), a large undergraduate module. Her responsibilities include facilitating hybrid teaching and student engagement, supporting tutorials, responding to student queries, assisting with assessment and marking, and providing feedback. Previously, she worked as an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Southampton, teaching Management Analysis and Foundations for Business Analytics, and supporting assessment, moderation and dissertation supervision. During her national service at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana, she served as a Research and Teaching Assistant, delivering seminars to approximately 250 students across topics related to construction, law, building technology and management.
Her published research addresses gender and management in the construction industry, including female professionals’ perceptions of management traits and project success, women’s entrepreneurship, and women’s career progression and retention. She has also contributed to work on responsible leadership, circular economy adoption and electric-vehicle-ready buildings. Her conference papers include research on organisational silence presented at Academy of Management meetings. She continues to develop manuscripts on organisational silence, gender, entrepreneurship and organisational behaviour, with the aim of contributing to management and organisation scholarship.
Her wider academic service includes serving as Track Chair for the Project and Programme Management Special Interest Group of the Academy of Management Ghana. She has reviewed manuscripts for academic journals and serves as a research ethics reviewer at the University of Southampton. She has also contributed to the Work Futures Research Centre and undertaken research and project-related roles in Ghana and the UK.
Leonora holds an MSc in Project Management from the University of Southampton and a BSc in Quantity Surveying and Construction Economics from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. She is an Associate Fellow of Advance HE and a corporate member of the Ghana Institute of Construction. She is a member of the Academy of Management, British Academy of Management, European Academy of Management and Academy of Management Ghana.
Her current research interests include organisational silence and employee voice, leadership, gender dynamics, entrepreneurship, human-centred artificial intelligence, digital transformation, sustainability and project-based organisations.
