Our research focuses on how to build organisations that support mentally healthy work, promoting engagement, wellbeing, and performance.
All our research is collaborative – we work closely with the organisations and with other researchers.
If you are interested in working with us, whether you are from an organisation, a student, or a researcher, do get in touch.
Psychosocial risk management
We conduct research and work with organisations to design mentally healthy work that supports employee wellbeing and productivity, and complies with New Zealand’s Health and Safety legislation.
Psychological safety
Our work focuses on promoting psychologically safe workplace cultures. We also design measurement tools to understand team culture and ways to enhance the psychological safety in your work teams.
Workplace resources and demands
While high work demands are a common element of today’s working environment, striving for a balance of demands and resources can support employee wellbeing and performance. In this work stream, we focus on identifying work demands, conditions, and resources that impact wellbeing and engagement.
Disaster management
Our disaster and recovery research focuses on organisational preparedness, adaptation, and factors that enable organisational recovery.
Innovation and change
Our work here focuses on how workplaces can foster learning cultures that enable and support innovative change, including the effective adoption of new technologies.
Diversity and inclusion
Our work here focuses on how workplaces can foster cultural safety and neuroinclusion.