Work design and communication in virtual teams
Australian Universities (AU) and the German Academic Exchange Service has granted $5000 funding to support an international research...
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- Oct 18, 2017
Minister Announces CTWD funding for research into FIFO work and well being
By UWA's Media Team: The State Government has granted The University of Western Australia’s (UWA) Centre for Transformative Work Design...
- Oct 11, 2017
Minister Announces CTWD Partnership With the Mental Health Commission
The Minister for Health, Hon. Roger Cook, visited the Centre for Transformative Work Design to announce an exciting partnership between...
- Sep 25, 2017
Let's Talk Teamwork: Team Briefings in Operating Theatres
On Sep 17 2017, Dr Laura Fruhen and Cheryl Yam presented at the ORNA (Operating Room Nurses Association) WA Symposium, held at the...
- Sep 18, 2017
Killer Apps: Or how technology may fundamentally change the work of teams
While Australia is known to house one the deadliest killers on this planet, the researchers from our centre are also interested in...
- Sep 13, 2017
Designing work for diversity
An important principle of well-designed work (see Safe Work Australia's principles of good work design) is that the work should "fit" the...
- Aug 28, 2017
En(light)en me about good and bad work design: The lantern production simulation
On Monday the 21st of August, the PSYC 5515 class was turned into a paper lantern factory (for educational purposes of course!). The...
- Aug 23, 2017
Introducing the Team Pulse App and the UDP-WA
The Centre is pleased to announce two new projects, namely the Team Pulse App and the Undiagonosed Disease Program of Western Australian...
- Aug 21, 2017
The Centre is looking to recruit international PhD students - but we'd like to hear from great d
The Centre for Transformative Work Design has scholarships available for two exceptional international PhD candidates with a passion for...
- Aug 21, 2017
New Research Assistant Joins the Centre
Cindy Burton has joined the Centre for Transformative Work Design this month. Cindy is originally from the Netherlands and has lived in...
- Jul 26, 2017
Laureates in Conversation: Perspectives from a PhD student
At the 12th APS Industrial and Organisational Psychology Conference in Sydney, I was privileged to attend a Keynote Conversation with ARC...
- Jun 14, 2017
Let’s Talk Teamwork: Multi-Professional Team Briefings in WA Operating Theatres
From Royal Australasian College of Surgeons’ Surgical News, May 2017 We are pleased to share with you an article written by our...
- Jun 5, 2017
Fourth post-doc is here!
Dr. M.K. Ward arrived in May 2017, and is thrilled to join our team. M.K. hails from North Carolina State University where, in 2016, she...
- Jun 2, 2017
Third Post-Doc in!
Fresh from the UK, Dr. Caroline Knight joined the team on 29th May 2017. She completed her PhD in December 2016 from Sheffield University...
- May 25, 2017
What boosts the chance that injured or ill workers will "return to work" by 20 to 30%?
One answer to this question is.... good work design! This month, professionals in fields ranging from insurance to rehabilitative...
- May 25, 2017
Proactivity in Paris
Last week Sharon attended an EAWOP Small Group Workshop on cross-cultural aspects of proactivity in Cergy, near Paris. Around 30 scholars...
- May 7, 2017
Working on work design in Canberra
On the invitation of the ACT Branch of the Human Factors and Ergonomic Society, Sharon presented to executives in Canberra this week, on...
- Apr 28, 2017
I scream, you scream: We all scream for “ice cream” – unless under bad work design conditions
We did not have Drew Barrymore, Neve Campbell, or Edvard Munch in mind when we invited participants to take part in a little work design...
- Apr 7, 2017
Upcoming online seminar: Using video and sequential analyses for team dynamics and work design resea
On of our postdocs, Florian Klonek, is giving an online tutorial on using sequential analyses for team research. This online seminar...
- Apr 1, 2017
Announcing our forthcoming artist-in-residence!
We are excited to announce that, next year, we will have an artist-in-residence at the Centre for Transformative Work Design. Lynne...
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