Juliet Hassard
Research Associate, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences
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Biography
In 2006, Juliet Hassard completed a BA (Hons.) in Psychology at the University of Manitoba with a minor in Sociology and a concentrated focus on Women's Studies. Within her major, Psychology, she specialized in social psychology and community mental health. In 2007, she completed her MSc in Occupational Health Psychology at the Institute of Work, Health and Organizations at the University of Nottingham. As part of her MSc program, she completed an internship at the World Health Organization (Geneva Headquarters). Since 2007, she has worked as a Research Associate in the Institute of Work, Health and Organisations at the University of Nottingham under the supervision of Dr. Stavroula Leka and Professor Tom Cox. During that time, she has been working concurrently on her doctoral research.
Teaching Summary
From September 2009 to February 2010 she was Acting Course Director for the MSc in Occupational Health Psychology (both face-to-face and e-learning variants), under the supervision of Professor Tom… read more
Research Summary
Juliet Hassard's research and teaching experience has primarily concentrated on the etiological role of psychosocial factors, both in and beyond the workplace, on the health and wellbeing of the… read more
From September 2009 to February 2010 she was Acting Course Director for the MSc in Occupational Health Psychology (both face-to-face and e-learning variants), under the supervision of Professor Tom Cox, whilst Dr. Leka was on research leave. She has taught and run tutorials for a range of courses for the occupational psychology and occupational health psychology MSc courses: including, ergonomics, risk assessment for work-related stress, law & Occupational health psychology, marketing health interventions, research methods, and consultancy skills and fieldwork. From 2008-2010 she supervised MSc applied research projects in collaboration with Prof. Tom Cox. These projects have spanned a variety of topic areas and research methods. From 2007 to 2009, she was the personal tutor for the Occupational Health Psychology MSc students. As part of this role, she has developed several tutorials that related to refining and developing students' academic writing, critical evaluation, and presentation skills.
Current Research
Juliet Hassard's research and teaching experience has primarily concentrated on the etiological role of psychosocial factors, both in and beyond the workplace, on the health and wellbeing of the working population. She has a particular interest in further understanding the psychosocial pathways and mechanisms that contribute to observed gender differences in health outcomes; which is one of the central foci on her doctoral thesis.
Past Research
In 2007, she worked on a research project in the Department of Public and Environmental Health at the World Health Organization; the primary aim of this project was to examine the unique contextual factors of occupational psychosocial factors and work-related stress in the developing world. Subsequently, she started working with Dr Stavroula Leka and Professor Tom Cox on a policy research project, PRIMA-EF, funded by the European Commission 6th Framework Program (Leka & Cox, 2008, see www.prima-ef.org for more information). The program was focused on the development of a European framework for psychosocial risk management with a special focus on work-related stress and workplace violence (including harassment, bullying and mobbing). It was supported by the WHO and the ILO and involved a number of European partners, as well as international support organizations.
Current Research
She is currently the Research Manager for, and researcher on, the European Agency for Safety & Health at Work under its Topic Centre program for good practice in health and safety management. This research has examined a wide variety of topics related to occupational health and safety and human resource management: including women's occupational health, mainstreaming occupational health and safety into education and teacher training, interventions for mental health promotion, leadership in occupational health and safety, a state of the art review of evidence prevention-orientated solutions for psychosocial risks, to name a few.
Doctoral Research
Her doctoral research seeks to model gender and gender differences in psychosocial processes and work-related wellbeing, and to identify the key mechanisms and pathways, both in and outside the workplace, that underpin this processes. She would like to further extend this research by further examining and understanding how the segregation of men's and women's paid employment and domestic duties, determined and influenced by social and cultural norms, may impact our understanding on men's and women's health and wellbeing; and how, this in turn, may impact our understanding of health inequalities.