Joni Delanoeije is a psychologist, business economist and clinical animal behaviorist. She is a senior FWO postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in organizational psychology and human-animal interaction at KU Leuven (Work and Organisation Studies, Belgium), board member (Lead Policy & Research) of the International Association for Human-Animal Interaction Organizations (IAHAIO, global), and involved with Sirius Therapie, a Belgian NGO. After obtaining her PhD on employee well-being in 2019, she currently leads projects on multispecies interactions and sustainable work, and the role of the living surroundings – including animals and the natural environment (i.e., biophilia) – in organizational and everyday life. She collaborates with renowned partners from the U.S. (Washington State University), Hong Kong (Lingnan University), Hungary (ELTE Budapest), the Netherlands (VU Amsterdam; OU Heerlen), Belgium (Ghent University) and others.
Academically trained in social and systems psychology, management and ethology, her main research topics include human-animal-nature interactions applying a “one welfare” approach, that is, simultaneously addressing human and non-human well-being. Combining insights from organizational psychology and anthrozoology, she aims to further the transdisciplinary understanding of 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 – and reimagine – multispecies coexistence.
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, American, 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 people and animals. 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.
