Email: maherk1@aston.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0) 121 204 4291

Karen is a Chartered Psychologist specialising in Occupational Health Psychology and workplace wellbeing. She joined Aston University as a Lecturer in Occupational Psychology in January 2022 following teaching roles at Nottingham Trent University and Coventry University. Karen's early career was as a practitioner in health coaching and behaviour change including rehabilitation and return to work interventions for the Fire and Rescue Service. She completed her PhD at Loughborough University in 2018 exploring the impact of extended shift working on operational effectiveness and firefighter wellbeing. 

Karen is the Chair of the Organisational Psychology Special Interest Group for the British Academy of Management.

Karen's research is focused on healthy workplaces and seeks understand how work influences employees' health and wellbeing. She is interested in the role that work and organisations can play in workers' adoption of adaptive and maladaptive health behaviours as well as the design of interventions to support people to thrive at work.

British Psychological Society - Chartered Member

British Academy of Management - SIG Chair (Organisational Psychology)

Advance HE - Fellow