​Professor Peter Schnall

Dr. Peter Schnall is a physician and epidemiologist, Peter has studied the impact of working conditions on the development of hypertension and obesity among workers for over 35 years. Dr. Schnall leads the academic interdisciplinary research team that includes Drs. BongKyoo Choi, Marnie Dobson, Viviola Gomez-Ortiz, Arturo Juárez-García, Paul Landsbergis and Ellen Rosskam.

He is the Founder and Director of the Center for Social Epidemiology located in Los Angeles, CA as well as the Co-Director of the Healthy Work Campaign. His role as Co-Director of the Healthy Work Campaign includes collaboration with the HWC team, developing contacts and relationships with potential HWC partners, and producing web pages, blogs, and other materials to promote the Campaign.

 

Topic

Obstacles to Healthy Work!

Professor Toon Taris

Prof. Toon Taris has received a BSc and MSc in administrative science and research methods (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), and received a PhD from the same university in 1994 on a thesis that focused on the methodological aspects of the analysis of the work career trajectories of young adults. Subsequently he held several positions as a post-doctoral researcher. In 2000, he was appointed Assistant professor at the Department of Work and Organizational Psychology of the Radboud University of Nijmegen, where he was later appointed Associate and Full Professor (2006). In 2009 he was appointed Full Professor at the department of Social and Organizational Psychology of Utrecht University. He was Head of School from 2013 to 2020.
Taris has published over four hundred papers, chapters and books in the area of work and organizational psychology and research methods. He is board member of several Dutch and international scientific journals, and Editor-in-Chief of Work & Stress, a leading journal in the area of occupational health psychology.​

 

Topic

Who’s afraid of the big bad boss? On the importance of high-quality social relationships in the workplace, forgiveness, and the role of supervisors

Professor Christian Dormann

Christian Dormann is a professor of Business Education & Management at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany and an adjunct research professor at the School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy at the University of South Australia (UniSA). Among others, he has published in the Journal of Organizational Behavior, the Journal of Applied Psychology, and Psychological Methods. He also served as an editor of the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology and as associate and consulting editor of several other journals, including the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, and the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. His research focus is on stress in organisations.
Christian Dormann has been the Chair of the Business Education & Management at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany, since 2013 after he had held the positions of chairs of Business Psychology and of Work & Organisational Psychology. Since 2011, Christian Dormann has also been adjunct research professor at the School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy at the University of South Australia (UniSA). He also served as an editor of the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology and as associate and consulting editor of several other journals, including the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, and the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. His research focus is on stress in organizations. In particular, he has been interested in psychosocial aspects of work.
He has published in the Journal of Organizational Behavior, the Journal of Applied Psychology, and Psychological Methods, among others. His many years of experience in various research areas are based on numerous national and international collaborative projects, of which several were conducted in collaboration with UniSA

Topic

Rethinking Causes and Effects: Evidence from Meta-Analyses of Longitudinal Studies of Job Stress

Professor Jill Dorrian

Professor Jill Dorrian is Co-Director of the Behaviour-Brain-Body Research Concentration at the University of South Australia. She has a PhD in Psychology, focusing on sleep and chronobiology research, and a Master of Biostatistics.  Jill works with sleep-deprived populations, including adolescents, pregnant women, and shiftworkers, to support health and safety. Much of Jill’s current work is focused on behavioural coping strategies for remaining healthy despite exposure to sleep loss. Along with colleagues in psychology, nutrition, and activity, she is working in chronobehaviour – investigating the health impacts, not only of what we do, but when we do it.
Topic

Managing Long and Irregular Working Hours: Coping Strategies for Health and Safety 

Dr. ​Akizumi Tsutsumi

Dr. Tsutsumi is a leading researcher of occupational stress and is engaged in several international committees, including the International Commission on Occupational Health (past chair of Scientific Committee of Cardiology in Occupational Health) and Chair of the International Collaborations Committee of the International Society of Behavioral Medicine. He has long focused on occupational health, and is extending his efforts to psychosocial factors and actions that affect health, along with the social determinants of health that are difficult to solve by the health sector alone. Through epidemiology that targets humans as a pillar of research methodology, he is motivated to contribute to society through the use of “practical science” derived from research results. Currently, his laboratory also aims to elucidate the mechanisms of social disparity in workers’ health, the health effects of occupational stress and its prevention, and the health effects of workers affected by corporate culture.

Topic

Long working hours and the consequences: health problems and work-life balance


Associate Professor Mohd Awang Idris

Mohd Awang Idris is an associate professor of Work and Organisational Psychology at the Department Anthropology and Sociology, University of Malaya. He is the Elected President of the Asia Pacific Academy for Psychosocial Factors at Work. His research interests include job stress, psychosocial safety climate, leadership, job engagement, workplace injuries and team performance.

Topic

After a decade of PSC research: What’s next?