Five minutes with…Amanda Biggs

Centre for Work Organisation and Wellbeing
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Understanding the relationship between employee-employer interactions, employee health and employer-level mechanisms such as policies, leadership style and culture, underpins Dr Amanda Biggs’ research. We spent five minutes with Amanda to learn a little more… In what area/s do your current research interests lie? In addition to examining the mechanisms underlying the [aforementioned] relationships, I am […]

Medical trainee attrition: The link between training stress, coping and thoughts of dropping out

Centre for Work Organisation and Wellbeing
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Five hundred and five (505) medical students and 349 junior doctors are the subject of an Australian study conducted by Griffith University researchers to identify the coping mechanisms used to deal with training stress, and whether a link exists between these strategies and their thoughts about dropping out of medicine. “Even though there is some […]

Five minutes with…Linda Trenberth

Centre for Work Organisation and Wellbeing
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Professor Linda Trenberth is Griffith Business School’s Dean of the Academic portfolio. She also gets some research in from time to timein the areas around organisational psychology! We spent five minutes with Linda to learn at little more about her work around bullying, stress and coping at work… What are you working on at the […]

Five minutes with…Paula Brough

Centre for Work Organisation and Wellbeing
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For over 20 years, Professor Paula Brough’s research has focussed on evaluating and enhancing the psychological health of workers. She is the leader of the Behavioural Basis of Health (research centre’s) Social and Organisational Psychology Research Unit, and WOW’s newest academic member. We spent five minutes with (a very busy) Paula to learn a little […]