Evita is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Organisations & Innovation group at the UCL School of Management, working with Cydney Hurston Dupree. She graduated with BA in International Relations from National Chengchi University (Taipei, Taiwan) and MSc in Strategic Management from HEC Paris (Jouy-en-Josas, France) before earning her PhD in Business Administration and Management from Bocconi University (Milan, Italy). She was also a visiting PhD student at Imperial College Business School (London, UK). 

Evita’s research sits at the intersection of leadership and communication. She is particularly interested in understanding how leaders navigate challenging situations, such as during prolonged crises, when experiencing chronic stereotype threat, or when answering difficult questions. Her research addresses questions like:

How can leaders communicate effectively during global pandemics, economic recessions, and grinding military conflicts? How do minority women leaders present themselves (verbally and non-verbally) in male-dominated leadership roles? How do leaders engage in two-way communication with stakeholders when questions are hostile and their needs are diverse?

She used various data sources, including political data (congressional records), corporate data (earnings calls), social media big data (Twitter/X, Stack Overflow, TED Talks, Mumsnet), and lab data. She adopted a multimethod approach, including a narrative literature review (published at The Leadership Quarterly), natural language processing, micro facial expression analysis (FaceReader), and laboratory experiments.

Prior to joining academia, Evita worked as an HR specialist at L’Oréal Paris headquarters. She has a passion for learning and researching languages (obviously!), and speaks Mandarin, English, French, and Italian — the last just well enough to order food. She is also very proud to have been born and raised in her lovely hometown, Taiwan.

Publications

Liu, E. H., Chambers, C. R., & Moore, C. (2023). Fifty years of research on leader communication: What we know and where we are going. The Leadership Quarterly, 34(6). doi: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2023.101734