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Contact Details
Email: maherk1@aston.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 121 204 4291
Biography
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.
Research Interests
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.
Membership of Professional Bodies
British Psychological Society - Chartered Member
British Academy of Management - SIG Chair (Organisational Psychology)
Advance HE - Fellow
Education/Academic qualification
PG Cert, Coventry University
Award Date: 21 Nov 2019
PhD, School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University Loughborough, United Kingdom
1 Oct 2013 → 18 Dec 2018
Award Date: 18 Dec 2018
MSc, Coventry University
Award Date: 21 Nov 2013
PG Dip, Coventry University
Award Date: 25 Nov 2010
BSc, University of Brighton
Award Date: 16 Jul 1998
External positions
External Examiner, Lincoln University
1 Oct 2020 → …
Keywords
- BF Psychology
- Occupational Health Psychology
- Work Wellbeing
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Midwives need a useable past to shape their future
Pezaro, S., Maher, K. & Fissell, M., 12 Mar 2022, In: The Lancet. 399, 10329, p. 1046-1047 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter, comment or opinion
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Problematic substance use: an assessment of workplace implications in midwifery
Pezaro, S., Maher, K., Bailey, E. & Pearce, G., 24 Dec 2021, In: Occupational Medicine. 71, 9, p. 460-466 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Fire and rescue operational effectiveness: the effect of alternative crewing patterns
Maher, K., Bateman, N. & Randall, R., 2020, In: Production Planning and Control. 31, 14, p. 1195-1206Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Taking an intervention approach to assess job redesign in the UK Fire and Rescue Service: the impact of alternative crewing methods: Emotion, Risk and Decision-Making
Maher, K., 19 May 2019, Applying Occupational Psychology to the Fire Service. Evans, T. & Steptoe-Warren, G. (eds.). Springer, p. 97-132Research output: Chapter in Book/Published conference output › Chapter
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Drivers of change in the UK fire service: An operations management perspective
Maher, K., Bateman, N. & Randall, R., 30 Jul 2015, Public Service Operations Management: A Research Handbook. Radnor, Z., Bateman, N., Esain, A., Kumar, M., Williams, S. & Upton, D. (eds.). p. 139-155 16 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Published conference output › Chapter
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