Joni Delanoeije (PhD in Business Economics, MSc in Psychology/Ethology) is an FWO postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in organization and management, and human-animal interaction (Work and Organisation Studies, KU Leuven) in Belgium. She is also a board member (Lead of Policy and Research) of the International Association for Human-Animal Interaction Organizations (IAHAIO). After obtaining her PhD on new ways of working in 2019, she is currently in charge of her own projects on sustainable work, and the role of the living surroundings—including animals and the natural environment—in organizational life. She collaborates with renowned international partners, such as from Washington State University (U.S.), ELTE Budapest (Hungary), VU Amsterdam and OU Heerlen (the Netherlands) and others.
Academically trained in business economics, experimental and systems psychology and biology, her main research topics include human-animal-nature interactions using a “one welfare” approach, that is, simultaneously addressing human, non-human and environmental well-being. Combining insights from organizational psychology and anthrozoology, she aims to further the transdisciplinary understanding of sustainable human-animal-nature interactions in businesses and society. She focusses on the relevance of online (e.g., digitalized) and offline (e.g., natural) environments to understand multistakeholder well-being in multispecies interactions.
Joni has won various awards and distinctions, is a regular invited speaker/expert at (inter)national academic, professional and policy conferences, and has published in top-ranking Q1 and ABS4* A1-journals, including Human Relations; Journal of Occupational Health Psychology; Resources, Conservation & Recycling; Work & Stress; Journal of Vocational Behavior; Journal of the American Medical Directors Association; European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology; Plos One; Anthrozoös; Ethology; Applied Animal Behaviour Science; Animals and other. Her work has received ample (inter)national press coverage, including from the Financial Times, Belgian and Dutch national television, radio and newspapers, and other.
Besides her work as a researcher, Joni is an animal behaviorist and enthusiast and gets engaged in activities aiming for a better world for humans, animals and nature. On a personal note, she lives in Lubbeek, Belgium, together with her two-legged lover, her two children, three dogs and a cat. She spends her free time on reading, running, and dreaming about the future.
