Nina Nesdoly

Specialization: Management

Thesis supervisor: Alexandra Panaccio
Thesis title: The Impact of Predictability on Employee Appraisals of Workplace Stressors

Research interests: Work-related stress, resilience, and burnout

Academic degrees:

• MSc Management, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa
• BSc Neuroscience, Carleton University
  • Scholarships and awards: 
    • Canada Graduate Scholarship (SSHRC), 2022–2025
    • Best Master’s Thesis – Human Resources Research Institute, 2021
    • Telfer Graduate Thesis Competition, 2nd place, 2020
    • Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 2019, 2020, 2021
    • Telfer Excellence Scholarship, University of Ottawa, 2019, 2020

Teaching assistant positions and courses taught:

• Part-time instructor, Managing People in Organizations, COMM 229

Publications and conference presentations

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

• 2020 Nesdoly, N., Tulk, C., & Mantler, J. The effects of perceived professor competence, warmth and gender on students’ likelihood to register for a course. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 45(5), 666–679.

Peer-Reviewed Conference Activity

• 2026 Nesdoly, N. (2026). Predictability and stress appraisals: a psychophysiological experiment on workload changes [Work-in-progress poster] Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Calgary, Canada, May 24.
• 2025 Nesdoly, N., O’Reilly, J., Panaccio, A., Rethinking resilience: leveraging neuroscience for employee resilience [Conference presentation]. 22nd European Congress of Work and Organizational Psychology, Prague, Czech Republic, May 22.
• 2021 Nesdoly, N. & O’Reilly, J. The impact of transformational leadership on employees' appraisals of stressors [Conference presentation]. Paper presented at the 81st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, virtual conference, August 1.