Blog | Work Design Research

Jun 5

Highlights from the Design for Care State of Affairs Breakfast 3: Changing work design to improve mental health in the healthcare and social assistance industry

One in two Healthcare and Social Assistance (H&SA) employees with poor work design report experiencing burnout, with only 15% of care...

Aug 23, 2023

3 mistakes managers make when designing jobs

A key role of management is to design jobs that not only meet the organisation’s goals, but also support the well-being of employees....

Jun 20, 2023

Work Design for Success: Innovative Research and Leading-Edge Practice

The 2024 Centre for Transformative Work Design Conference Perth, Western Australia | 12-14 February 2024 The 3-day inaugural Centre for...

Jun 16, 2023

SMART Design for Care State of Affairs Breakfast 2

Learn what’s driving the high rates of burnout and mental ill-health in the Healthcare & Social Assistance Industry Do you know the top...

Mar 1, 2023

A PhD with a difference: Dr Cheryl Yam's journey from research to making real world impact

Upon completing her Masters degree in Industrial and Organisational (IO) Pyschology, Cheryl found herself at crossroads: plunge deeper...

Jan 6, 2023

Meet our visitor, Susan Reh

We are thrilled to have welcomed Dr Susan Reh, Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter Business School to our centre! Our Senior...

Dec 16, 2022

Meet our visitor, Selina Stracke

We are excited to introduce Selina Stracke, a PhD student who recently visited us here down under, all the way from the Technical...

Nov 30, 2022

Meet our visitor, Wiebke Roling

We are delighted to have hosted Wiebke Roling at the Centre! Wiebke is a PhD student from the Faculty of Psychology at Ruhr University...

Nov 1, 2022

Meet our visitor from Italy, Michela Carraro

Our Centre had the pleasure of hosting Michela Carraro, a PhD candidate in organizational behavior from the University of Padova in...

Aug 8, 2022

Meet Lesley Brown, our placement student

In March this year, we welcomed our Masters placement student Lesley to the centre. From left to right: Associate Professor Patrick...

Jun 17, 2022

Meet our collaborator from CEPAR's UNSW team, Dr Sophie Yan

Meet Dr Sophie Yan! Visiting us from Sydney, Sophie is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing...

May 18, 2022

New PhD scholarship on future work design in rare and undiagnosed diseases

Are you interested in researching transformative work design as a way to address challenges facing the child health care system? We are...

May 10, 2022

Q&A with Visiting Scholarship recipient Lioba Gierke

Meet Lioba, our most recent international visitor at the centre. Lioba is a PhD student at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management...

May 6, 2022

New landmark study for stronger action to improve work in WA mining

The Centre for Transformative Work Design has been awarded funding for a landmark study into mental health and workplace culture across...

Feb 28, 2022

Reducing demands or optimising demands? Effects of cognitive appraisal and autonomy on job crafting

Are you facing increasing job demands at work? You can engage in two job crafting strategies to make changes in your job demands:...

Feb 16, 2022

CEPAR 'Mature Workers in Organisations' Small Grant Award Scheme

The ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR) at Curtin University is pleased to announce the launch of our CEPAR...

Jan 21, 2022

Funding boost to tackle work-related psychological hazards for aged care workers

We are thrilled to announce that the Centre for Transformative Work Design (CTWD) has been awarded $373,762 in funding from the Safe Work...

Dec 15, 2021

Giulia - The Gypsy Dancer

The free life of a dance teacher Giulia scored her job as 10/10 (with ten being the most fantastic job imaginable). For one hour during...

Dec 15, 2021

Gig workers - The Pros and Cons of Delivering Food

Thumbs up for gig work, at least for some workers, some of the time This job was scored by our participants as 6.5/10 on average (with...

Dec 15, 2021

Technology to replace shearers?

"NOT in my life time" Shearing jobs look safe from robots for some time to come by Sharon K. Parker Fears of digitalization taking over...