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Breaking free: How organisations become front runners in gender diversity

This project aims to understand why a few exceptional organisations make substantive progress toward gender equality when so many of their competitors fail. Gender equality has social and economic value but despite decades of equal opportunity legislation and investment in gender initiatives, gender inequality persists in organisations all around the world..

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Rebuilding Life after migration

We aim to conduct an in-depth of investigation of the diverse contextual factors impacting the settlement experiences of refugee and migrant background youth, and the role of support services. The study will provide the settlement sector and service providers with crucial new knowledge on how to foster the wellbeing of these young people. Conducted across three countries, Australia, Canada, and USA, and involving 1200 surveys and 54 focus groups, the research study will be one of the most comprehensive studies of refugee and migrant youth settlement in the world.

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Bullying at work: manage the risk

When policies, procedures, and processes for managing people and tasks do not operate effectively within organisations, there is a risk that workers will feel mistreated, bullied, burnt-out, and distressed. With this in mind, we have developed a novel, evidence-based risk audit tool which allows organisations to take a proactive approach to risk management to improve the psychosocial work environment.

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Tranquillising Work Stress: Corporate Climate and Antidepressant Use

This National project will investigate the plausible link between distress at work and Australia’s high levels of antidepressant use, through creative linkage of data from the Australian Workplace Barometer (10-year longitudinal study) to antidepressant medication data (via the national Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme).

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Climate in schools: teacher wellbeing and student learning

The wellbeing of teachers – and how supported and encouraged they feel at work – can play a large role in how students are taught. The climate in which teachers work is critical in creating the best conditions for teachers to achieve their goals. Our researchers are investigating how school leadership and school climate influences teacher and student performance and wellbeing.

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Digital communication and work stress in Australian University Staff: a multilevel study

In the Australian higher education sector, high email volumes and increasing levels of psychological strain (work stress) can affect employees' health and well-being. These pressures are likely to have additional direct consequences on the recruitment and retention of high quality academic staff and the teaching of future professionals with implications for future GDP.

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Gender Diversity: The Trickle Down Effect

Women are graduating from university in record numbers and in greater numbers than men. Yet the representation of women falls by approximately 10 percentage points at each successive step on the management ladder. This research demonstrates that the trickle-down effect can move rapidly to address diversity.

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Stress Café: tools for workplace wellbeing

The StressCafé is a unique resource for sharing information about workplace stress in different occupations in Australia and overseas. The Centre for Workplace Excellence is undertaking a range of research within the StressCafé, focusing on equipping organisations with the best knowledge and tools for happy, supportive and productive workplaces.

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Healthy Workplaces

Collaborative Partnership for Workplace Health and Wellbeing in South Australia is an alliance of government, industry, statutory insurers, academics and unions which aims to drive a coordinated response to improve workplace health and wellbeing across the state.

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