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Welcome to the Organisational Psychology Research Group
Our academic staff apply knowledge of organisational psychology to innovative research questions in areas relating to occupational health, selection and assessment, career development, and mindfulness in the workplace. We work directly with organisations, conducting research and consultancy to help make the most of people and practices at work.
The Organisational Psychology Group is focused on producing high impact research that is rated as internationally excellent or world leading. The group benefits from expertise in the following applied areas:
As well as producing research in these areas, the group delivers a highly successful and long-standing MSc in Organisational Psychology which attracts some of the best applicants from within the UK and from overseas. Graduates of this course have gained employment as organisational consultants and researchers and operate in a variety of sectors. Reflecting the research profile of the group, several recent graduates from the MSc course have received prizes for research excellence from the British Psychological Society (BPS) and the Association for Business Psychology (ABP). For further details of the course please see MSc in Organisation Psychology.
We are a specialised academic research group, focused on research and consultancy in organisational psychology.
Dr Julia Yates Senior Lecturer in Organisational Psychology and MSc Programme Director
Dr Paul Flaxman Reader in Occupational Psychology
Dr Lara Zibarras Senior Lecturer in Organisational Psychology and Deputy MSc Programme Director
Dr Lynsey Mahmood Lecturer in Organisational Psychology
Dr Jutta Tobias Mortlock Lecturer in Organisational Psychology
Shannon's research interests centre around employee psychological and physical well-being and leisure time recovery. This includes perfectionism in the workplace and the psycho-physiological reactions to work-related stress. Shannon has been involved in projects investigating teachers’ experience of a half-term break and the impact of personal resilience training on employees.
Natalia's research interests centre around psychometric assessments, entrepreneurship and workplace precariousness. Natalia’s current project is a collaboration with a UK-based micro-lending company and focuses on the development of a psychometric measure of creditworthiness.
She has a BSc in Psychology from UCL (2016) and an MSc in Organisational Psychology from City, University of London (2017).
Dr Sonja Newman (2017) Perfectionism in the workplace: Examining the influence of perfectionistic characteristics on employees' work day and respite experiences. (Supervisor: Dr Paul Flaxman)
Dr. Antonio Pangallo (2014) An Exploration of the Meansure of Resilience in Palliative Care Workers. (Supervisor: Dr Lara Zibarras).
Dr Julia Yates new book 'The Career Coaching Toolkit' is available now. The book provides a practical guide to 34 effective and relevant career coaching techniques to help practitioners encourage, stretch and clarify their clients' thinking.
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Here’s what they had to say about their interests:
Julia: “My particular area of interest is career choice. I spent the first 15 years of my career as a coach, trying to help various kinds of people – at schools, at university and in organisations, to make good career choices, but often felt that I wasn’t able to help people enough. I decided to change the focus of my work to teaching and research with the aim of finding better ways to do it. I’m currently writing a book which identifies and describes 50 evidence-based techniques which have been shown to be effective in career conversations, with the aim of broadening the range of tools at the disposal of career coaches. My own research is really taking the field back to basics, as I’m trying to explore the factors that make one occupation more appealing than another. This is taking me down all sorts of interesting paths – I never realised that shoes could be so influential in people’s careers!”
Lynsey: “I recently finished my PhD at the University of Kent, where I studied the impact of brief mindfulness interventions on social judgements. I am particularly interested in the application of mindfulness and social psychology theory to organisational settings, especially for reducing bias. Other lines of research that I am working on look at links between organisational identity, motivation and employee behaviour. I recently looked at this in the context of virtual or home based working, which is becoming a real trend for organisations now, so there is a lot of interesting work to be done there! I am also interested in student perceptions of employability skill development, and how students differ to employers in their expectations of skill development and preparedness for work”