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
Topic
Managing Long and Irregular Working Hours: Coping Strategies for Health and Safety
Dr. Akizumi Tsutsumi
Topic
Long working hours and the consequences: health problems and work-life balance
Associate Professor Mohd Awang Idris
Topic
After a decade of PSC research: What’s next?