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Maureen Dollard
Professor Maureen Dollard is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow, Director of the PSC Observatory, University of South Australia, and Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham. Her research concerns workplace psychosocial factors and she has published extensively on the topic. Maureen is on the board of the International Commission on Occupational Health, the editorial board for Work and Stress, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and European Journal of Work & Organisational Psychology, and the advisory board for the Beyondblue Workplace Mental Health Advisory Group. She co-established the Asia Pacific Academy for Psychosocial Factors at Work, and is Fellow of the European Academy for Occupational Health Psychology. Maureen is the innovator of Psychosocial Safety Climate theory and applications, key benchmarking metrics of employee wellbeing, national surveillance of working conditions via the Australian Workplace Barometer, and bringing an economic focus to occupational health.
Kurt Lushington
Professor Kurt Lushington has a PhD and MPsych (Clinical) from Flinders University of South Australia. His thesis examined the role of the pineal hormone, melatonin, in the sleep of the aged. Kurt is interested in all works to do with sleep, both applied and theoretical, and is currently working on several projects examining sleep in children and adults. In addition, he is involved in work with industry groups examining the role of fatigue in the workplace, and with his students the effect of new technologies on teaching. Kurt is the current Head of School for the School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy and Head of the Discipline of Psychology.
Silvia Pignata
Dr Silvia Pignata is a Senior Lecturer in Aviation (Human Factors) within the School of Engineering at the University of South Australia. She has a PhD in work psychology, an Honours degree in Health Sciences, and a Bachelor of Psychology. Her PhD thesis examined organisational stress interventions and strategies that incorporate well-being and morale building activities in Australian universities, with a focus on their potential to reduce psychological strain. She is a certified member of AHRI (Australian Human Resources Institute), APS (Australian Psychological Society), EAWOP (European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology) and the RAeS (Royal Aeronautical Society). Her current research interests include: work stress, interventions, human factors, email load, and sleep research. She has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications and presented invited papers at leading international and national conferences.
Christian Dormann
Christian Dormann is Professor at the Faculty of Business Education at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany and also adjunct Professor at the Asia Pacific Centre for Work Health and Safety, a WHO Collaborating Centre for Occupational Health, at the University of South Australia. His major research interests are job-related areas.
Amy Zadow
Dr Amy Zadow is a Registered Psychologist with a Masters degree in Work and Organisational Psychology and a PhD specialising in the prevention of workplace stress. Amy is currently teaching in the area of psychology and human factors at the University of South Australia and completing a range of research projects relating to the development of psychosocial safety climate, the prevention of psychosocial risks, and psychological injury prevention. Amy also has seven years of experience working in injury prevention and management roles in both the public and private sector.
Arnold Bakker
Arnold Bakker, PhD., is Professor of Work and Organizational Psychology at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is also Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg, Extraordinary Professor at North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa, and Visiting Professor at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. Dr Bakker is well known for his research on job design and work engagement. Together with Dr Demerouti, he developed Job Demands–Resources (JD-R) theory – an overarching theory that predicts how job characteristics influence employee well-being and performance, and how proactive work behaviors influence working conditions. Dr Bakker is one of the most-cited scientists worldwide, and has been included in Thomson Reuters’ list of “The world’s most influential scientific minds” since 2014. He has also featured in the list of the 40 most productive Dutch Economists (in 2014 and 2017). His research interests include burnout, job crafting, the work-family interface, sports psychology, and playful work design.
Rachael Potter
Dr Rachael Potter is a Research Fellow, who is an experienced researcher, analyst, and communicator with a variety of specialist areas of inquiry such as work stress and evaluating national work health and safety policy approaches. She is an ‘outward-facing’ academic whose work cuts across the disciplines of psychology, work health and safety, public health, and law. Rachael’s methodological stance is that research should give a voice to members in society and enact tangible and beneficial change. In alignment with this ethos, her unique contribution to academe is that she advocates for workers by focusing on the broader ecological system in which they operate. Rachael's work has been cited in national and international documents that have put forward policy changes to improve worker health and safety. Rachael has also led a National Review into workplace discrimination for pregnant and parent workers.
Ali Afsharian
Dr Ali Afsharian has a Master's degree in clinical psychology (USWR, Iran) and completed a PhD (UniSA, Australia) focusing on Psychosocial Safety Climate (PSC) from both composition and dispersion statistical perspectives to highlight and prevent psychosocial risk factors in working environments at national and international levels. Ali's PhD research also investigated and compared PSC concepts in different cultural contexts; Australian and Iranian workplaces. He is currently working as a researcher at the Asia Pacific Centre for Work Health and Safety. Ali's main research interests are: PSC, psychosocial risk factors, organisational psychology, as well as a range of topics relating to refugees in Australia.
May Young Loh
Dr May Young Loh is a Research Associate of PSC Global Observatory, Centre of Workplace Excellence, University of South Australia. She is interested in managing psychosocial factors at work and promoting psychological health and safety through workplace intervention, positive work climate and leadership training. Her research mainly focuses on the Psychosocial Safety Climate (PSC), job design, and occupational health and well-being. Her PhD project aims to put theory into practice, by examining the mechanisms of how to promote a psychologically healthy working environment.
Amy Parkin
Amy is a PhD candidate with a Bachelor of Psychology (Honours). She has recently begun her PhD focusing on digital communication and work stress in Australian universities. Her honours research investigated how Psychosocial Safety Climate theory operates under conditions of job insecurity. Amy’s main interests are workplace digital communication, Psychosocial Safety Climate, workplace psychosocial risk factors and work-related psychological health.
Daniel Neser
Daniel is a research assistant at the PSC Global Observatory. He has a background in Social Sciences, Politics and Economics. He is part of many research teams within the Observatory, assisting in data analysis, survey coordination and data visualisation. His research has included the importance of macro-level factors (legal frameworks, union density etc.) to organisational-level psychosocial safety climate, and university sector governance and staff wellbeing.
