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3 Ways to Setup Your Headspace at Work: The Case of Entrepreneurial Co-working
Where you do your work impacts how you do your work, and entrepreneurs are no exception. In fact, workspaces are changing with new...
Nov 6, 2017


Doing Time: The Work Design of Fremantle Prisoners
This weekend, one of the Centre Post Docs and a holidaying Dutch Scholar, Professor Maria Tims, took time out to explore the underground...
Oct 22, 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...
Sep 13, 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 28, 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...
Jul 26, 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...
Jun 2, 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...
May 7, 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 28, 2017


Does your job work for your brain? Read about how to research this question in our TIP article
Click here to access the newest issue of The Industrial/Organizational Psychologist (TIP). M.K. Ward and Sharon Parker wrote this...
Mar 30, 2017
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