Claire Hardy, PhD

Dr. Claire Hardy holds a PhD in Applied (Occupational) Psychology from the University of Nottingham, an MSc in Occupational Psychology from the University of Nottingham, and a BSc (Hons) in Psychology from the University of York. She is a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society (BPS) and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK).

Before joining VinUniversity, Dr. Hardy held appointments at Lancaster University, King’s College London, Aston University, University of Leicester, Northumbria University, and the University of Nottingham. She brings over two decades of experience across academic research, higher education teaching, doctoral supervision, and applied consultancy, with a strong record of interdisciplinary and international collaboration. Dr. Hardy’s research focuses on the intersection of work, health, and wellbeing, with particular emphasis on workplace interventions, organisational culture, workforce resilience, expatriation and global mobility, and women’s health at work. Her research on women’s health focuses specifically on menstrual health, premenstrual health, menopause, and reproductive health in workplace contexts. This work has been supported by competitive funding from organisations including the ESRC, NIHR, Wellbeing of Women, Sport England, the Grieg Foundation, IOSH, and Aviva UK, through collaborations across the UK, Europe, and North America. She has secured over £2 million in competitive research funding as Principal or Co-Investigator, and has published widely in peer-reviewed and invited academic outputs.

Her research has been cited in over 30 national and international policy documents and has informed public health, labour, and workplace policy, guidance, and recommendations by governments, professional bodies, think tanks, and other organisations across multiple countries, including the United Kingdom, United States, the Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Germany, and Portugal, as well as Latin American contexts. In recognition of this impact, Dr Hardy received the British Psychological Society’s Division of Occupational Psychology Excellence in Occupational Psychology Award in 2018 for her work on women’s health at work, and her menopause-at-work intervention was identified by RAND Europe as one of the top five most promising workplace health interventions.

Dr. Hardy contributes actively to the international research community through scholarly leadership and service. She serves as an Associate Editor and invited Guest Editor for international academic journals, reviews manuscripts for a range of world-leading journals, and acts as a grant reviewer for major national and international research funding bodies.

In addition to her research contributions, Dr. Hardy plays an active role in shaping international policy, standards, and professional practice. She is an invited expert member of the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Resilience Task Force, contributes to international standards development through the International Organization for Standardization working group on menstrual and menopause health at work, is an invited expert member of the British Standards Institution Occupational Health and Safety Management Committee, and has contributed as an academic expert to the development of international guidance on menopause and work for the European Menopause and Andropause Society.

Dr. Hardy is an experienced and committed educator with extensive teaching experience across undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral levels. She has supervised eight doctoral students to completion, currently supervises several doctoral candidates, and has examined doctoral theses. She has also held invited and guest teaching roles internationally, including as an invited lecturer in Technological University of the Shannon in Ireland, a guest MSc supervisor at Imperial College London, and as a guest lecturer delivering and convening modules at King’s College London and Northumbria University. She has extensive experience delivering teaching through online, blended, and hybrid formats and has published, delivered workshops, and presented at academic conferences on pedagogical practice, digital learning, and teaching sensitive and complex topics.

Alongside her academic work, Dr. Hardy engages actively in external engagement and knowledge exchange through invited talks, workshops, consultancy and expert contributions for public, private, and government organisations. Through this work, she supports the translation of psychological research into policy, standards, and workplace practice at national and international levels.