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Professor Maureen Dollard
Centre Director
Director: Work & Stress Research Groups
Research interests:
  • Workplace psychosocial risk factors
  • Australian Workplace Barometer
  • Workplace mental health
  • Psychosocial safety climate
  • Rural psychology
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Associate Professor Michelle Tuckey
Research interests:
  • Psychosocial influences on well-being at work, particularly workplace bullying
  • Acute stressors (e.g., potentially traumatic events, such as those attended by emergency services personnel)
  • Emotion regulation at work
  • The pathways to work engagement
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Associate Professor Phil Kavanagh
Research interests:
  • Evolutionary, Personality and Social Psychology
  • Self-esteem
  • Sociometer Theory
  • The Dark Triad
  • Life History Theory

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Dr Sarven McLinton
Research interests:
  • Workplace bullying
  • Cross-cultural psychology
  • Instrument development
  • Delphi method
  • Anger and work stress
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Dr Silvia Pignata
Research interests:
  • Sleep research in children and adolescents
  • The impact of organisational stress-reduction interventions on employee Well-being and work attitudes
  • Psychosocial aspects of occupational health and safety
  • Psychological injury and the prevention of work stress
  • Human Factors: Interaction of people and socio-technical systems within the work environment.
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Associate Professor Harry Savelsberg
Research interests:
  • Sociological and policy investigations of young people experiencing challenging​ circumstances

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Dr Rachael Potter
Research interests:
  • Work-related psychological health and wellbeing
  • Work health and safety legislation and policy analysis
  • Work design and psychosocial hazard management
  • Digital communication and technology in the workplace
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​Dr Ali Afsharian ​
Research interests:
  • Organisational and clinical psychology,
  • Psychosocial safety climate,
  • Employees' variability of underlying perception of managerial policies and management plans to design working environments,
  • Psychosocial health issues and risk factors at work,
  • Cross-cultural prevention and
  • Intervention for work health and safety.
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Dr Amy Zadow 
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Research interests:
  • Psychosocial Safety Climate,
  • Emotional exhaustion, and Work injuries, ​
  • Meta-analytic framework and analysis, Work stress evaluation, prevention and intervention, Workplace digitalisation, psychosocial factors and job crafting,
  • Job performance in dynamic work environments,
  • Workplace bullying and violence,
  • Chronic work stress and ageing

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Ms May Young Loh 
Research interests:
  • Psychosocial safety climate 
  • ​Job design
  • Occupational health and well-being
  • Psychosocial risks prevention


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Ms Amy Parkin
Research Interests:
  • Work and organisational psychology
  • Workplace digital communication
  • Psychosocial Safety Climate
  • Workplace psychosocial risk factors
  • Work-related psychological health


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Associate Professor Tahereh Ziaian
Research Interests:
  • Transcultural Mental Health and Cross-Cultural Psychology
  • Immigration, acculturation and intercultural relations
  • Cultural diversity in health care and cross-cultural communications
  • Refugee and Migrant Youths issues
  • Overarching interest in health inequities, specially multidisciplinary and multi-method approaches to understanding inclusive and appropriate health care

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​Dr Teresa Puvimanasinghe
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Ms Emily Miller​
Research Interests:
  • Refugee student equity and citizenship pathways
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Ms Michelle Oppert​
Research Interests:
  • Workplace psychosocial factors and occupational psychology
  • Industry 4.0
  • Ageing, aged care and nurses​

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Ms Cherie Crispin

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Ms Chanvi Singh​

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Mrs Gemma David​


Honorary Appointments

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Professor Jan de Jonge
University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Research interests:
  • Work and Organisational Psychology
  • Human Performance Management
  • Advanced Methods and Statistics
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Professor Christian Dormann
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Research interests:
  • Work and Organisational Psychology
  • Human Performance Management
  • Advanced Methods and Statistics
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Associate Professor Akihito Shimazu
The University of Tokyo
Research interests:
  • Mental health
  • Occupational mental health
  • Behavioral science
  • Clinical psychology
  • Public health educational and social psychology

Past Members

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Dr Tessa Bailey
Research Interests:
  • Psychosocial risk prevention and intervention: Psychosocial Safety Climate at the macro-level
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Dr Bella Yantcheva
Research Interests:
  • Developing new psychometric methods for engineering companies
  • Analyzing, predicting and improving individual and organisational performance
  • Investigating Psychosocial Safety Climate and psychosocial factors at work
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​Dr Annabelle Neall 
Research Interests:
  • Workplace Bullying and Harassment
  • Psychosocial Risk Assessment and
  • Management Bystander Intervention in Workplaces
  • Organisational Health Interventions
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Dr Valerie O'Keeffe
Research interests:
  • Healthcare human factors and ergonomics
  • Work organisation, job design, job quality and well-being at work
  • Participation, consultation, communication & worker health and safety & well-being
  • The prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders
  • The management of psychosocial hazards and prevention of work-related​ psychological ill health
  • Work (occupational) health and safety legislation and policy development

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Centre for Workplace Excellence (CWeX) (2019) StressCafé [Promoting healthier, happier, safer, and more productive work environments]. Retrieved from https://www.stresscafe.com.au/
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  • Home
  • ​PSC GO
    • ​PSC Database
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    • ​Psychosocial Safety Climate (PSC)
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    • Workplace Bullying and Harassment
    • Job Resources
    • Health Outcomes
    • Work Outcomes
    • AWB Demographics
    • AWB Info-graphics
    • AWB Research Team
    • AWB Publications
  • Other Projects
    • Tranquillising Work Stress
    • School Leavers Study
    • FrontLine Healthcare Project
    • Pathways to active citizenship
    • Future Industries Institute Project
  • About
    • OUR TEAM
    • NEWS & EVENTS
    • A Tribute to Tony
  • CONTACT US