I joined Middlesex in July 2013 as a lecturer, and I will be teaching on
PSY3018 Business Psychology and PSY4117 Applied Business Psychology. My academic
background is in organizational and health psychology, and I am interested in
applications of psychological theory to people at work, particularly where this
relates to healthcare provision.
After a first degree in Psychology and an MSc in Health Psychology I took
up a health services research post, joining a Cancer Research UK funded group
at the University of Oxford. My focus was on informed decision making about
whether to have screening for cancer, and I researched and wrote some of the information
materials about screening that are sent to patients and doctors by the NHS.
Not being able to avoid the inevitable pull of London, I then moved to KCL
to work in an NIHR funded research group looking at safety and quality in the NHS.
My job was to examine ways in which workforce issues might affect patients,
which involved looking at various human resources issues such as harassment
amongst staff. I also did a part time PhD in organizational psychology at KCL, a
mixed methods longitudinal study examining how joining a new organization can
affect the well-being of hospital employees and their patients.
I am currently writing up various bits of research. I am finalising a paper
looking at the ways in which managers and supervisors respond (or don’t!) to bullying
and harassment at work. I also have an interesting piece ongoing about the
“psychological contract”, which is basically the perceived / implicit (rather
than formal written) employment contract held by employees.
I’d be delighted to hear from anyone who might like to collaborate on
anything. I am broadly interested in applications of psychology to organizations
and to healthcare (ideally but not necessarily at the same time) and I have
experience with mixed methods and longitudinal research designs.
Chris Woodrow
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