Academic staff in organisational psychology at UNSW conduct internationally-recognised research that focuses on a range of organisational issues including the basic psychological processes that are implicated in these issues. Research topics include groups at work, diversity, training, occupational stress, selection, applicant presentation and career decision-making. Much of the organisational research is conducted in collaboration with Industry. The Careers Research and Assessment Service located within the School also provides a focus for career development research within the school. The Careers Reseach and Assessment Service provides professional training of students in counselling, coaching, assessment, client skills and report writing. It offers a range of career counselling, coaching and training services to the UNSW community.

Research in organisational psychology at UNSW represents cutting edge advances in many fields of organisational psychology. Staff in Organisational Psychology have long held and continue to hold positions of leadership with the Australian Psychological Society College of Organisational Psychologists. Academic staff in the program have international research reputations. Please click on the names of researchers below to learn more about the work they are doing.

Here is a list of people within the school involved in the teaching of organisational psychology or research in the field. Follow the links for further information including full CVs.

Joanne (Jo) Earl
Organisational psychology and career development - accuracy of self-rated abilities; downshifting (i.e. sea change and tree change), retirement decision-making; career decidedness as a predictor of organizational outcomes.

Denise Jepsen
Organisational behaviour, human resource management, psychological contract, organisational citizenship behaviour, leadership in workplace relations, organisational justice, job satisfaction, organisational commitment, workforce retention, organisational diagnosis.

E. James Kehoe
Organisational psychology and behavioural neuroscience. Learning, memory, and training in humans and animals. Attentional, perceptual, and temporal processes in associative learning, learning-to-learn, transfer of training, computer-based training, parallel distributed processing models, and neural pathways of conditioned reflexes.

Ben R Newell
Judgement and decision making. Implicit/explicit distinction in human learning and memory.

Ann Williamson
Human factors. Effects of toxic hazards on behaviour. Fatigue and performance.