Professor Nerina Jimmieson
Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Management
Biography
Nerina Jimmieson conducts a program of both basic and applied research on (1) occupational stress and employee health and (2) organisational change management designed to improve workplace effectiveness, at the individual, group, and organisational levels. She employs multiple methodologies, including laboratory-based task simulations, organisational surveys, diary studies, and interviews.She has 130+ publications as journal articles and book chapters. In addition to academic dissemination of her research, findings and recommendations are reported directly to her industry collaborators in the form of technical reports and other deliverables (assessment tools, training materials, how-to guides, tip sheets, case studies).
Her research program is well supported through competitive and commercial funding, totalling 5 million dollars to date, having been a Chief Investigator on 11 ARC-funded research projects (both Discovery and Linkage), and a NHMRC Partnership Project.
In 2012-2015, she held an Australia Research Council Future Fellowship for a project titled: ‘Supervisor strategies for managing employee stress and strain: A national approach to psychosocial risk management’.
She is an Associate Editor for Journal of Occupational Health Psychology and Journal of Applied Behavioural Science. She currently serves on the Editorial Board for Journal of Business and Psychology and is a past Editorial Board Member for Journal of Change Management (2009-2020).
Personal details
Positions
- Professor
Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Management
Research field
Strategy, management and organisational behaviour
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020
Qualifications
- PhD (University of Queensland)
- PostGradDip(Psych) (University of Queensland)
- BA (University of Queensland)
Publications
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Nerina, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Selected research projects
- Title
- A multi-level approach to the management of demands and resources to minimise the risk of psychosocial injury in the workplace
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP120100575
- Start year
- 2012
- Keywords
- Organisational Psychology; Organisational Behaviour; Occupational Stress; Employee Well-being
- Title
- Supervisor strategies for managing employee stress and strain: a national approach to psychosocial risk management
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- FT110100083
- Start year
- 2012
- Keywords
- Organisational Psychology; Organisational Behaviour; Occupational Stress
- Title
- The Antecedents and Outcomes of Affective and Cognitive Readiness for Organisational Change
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP130101680
- Start year
- 2013
- Keywords
- Organisational Behaviour; Attitudes toward organisational change; Readiness for organisational change
Projects listed above are funded by Australian Competitive Grants. Projects funded from other sources are not listed due to confidentiality agreements.