Course Team

Dr Jonathan Houdmont is a Lecturer in Occupational Health Psychology at the Institute of Work, Health & Organisations, University of Nottingham. He obtained a BSc in Psychology from the University of Leeds followed by a PGCE in Adult and Further Education from the University of Keele, prior to undertaking a career teaching A-Level psychology in the Further Education sector. After obtaining his MSc in Occupational Health Psychology with Distinction from the University of Nottingham in 2002, he joined the staff at the Institute of Work, Health and Organisations. He subsequently completed a PhD in Applied Psychology on the issue of caseness for work-related stress.

Jonathan's research and consultancy is focused on two strands of activity that have generated a series of peer reviewed journal papers, commissioned reports, book chapters, and conference presentations:

1. Psychosocial work environment measurement and intervention issues, with a particular focus on high-stress occupational groups. This currently finds expression in research on work-related stress in the policing, prison, and fire service contexts.
2. Workplace health promotion intervention design and evaluation. This strand of activity currently finds expression in research on the promotion of sun safety in the construction sector and physical activity among firefighters.

He is co-editor of the biennial reference series 'Occupational Health Psychology: Global Perspectives on Research and Practice'. He is also co-editor of 'Occupational Health Psychology', currently the sole student textbook for the discipline. Both books are published by Wiley-Blackwell.

Jonathan is Director of the MSc in Workplace Health and Wellbeing, an innovative education and training programme for workplace health (and safety) practitioners. The course is centred on the interface of scientific evidence, legislative and policy drivers, and professional practice in the management of contemporary issues in workplace health and wellbeing. Jonathan convenes five (of eight) modules on the course and supervises student research projects on this MSc and others.

Jonathan offers PhD supervision on a range of topics in the occupational health psychology domain. He is currently primary supervisor to five PhD students. The theses that he supervises are unified by virtue of being driven by psychological theory and possessing the potential to make a genuine improvement to the health and wellbeing of workers. To this end, the research that he supervises is orientated towards providing an evidence base that practitioners might use as a basis for the enhancement of working life.

Jonathan was Executive Officer and a Charitable Trustee of the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology from 2003 to 2010. He was the Academy's Conference Co-ordinator, organising four international conferences (Berlin, 2003; Porto, 2004; Dublin, 2006; Valencia, 2008).

Amanda Griffiths is Professor of Occupational Health Psychology and Deputy Head of the Institute of Work, Health & Organisations, University of Nottingham, UK. She is an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences, a Chartered Occupational Psychologist, Chartered Health Psychologist, Health Professions Council registered Practitioner Psychologist, Registered Europsy Psychologist and International Associate of the American Psychological Association. Her expertise concerns the promotion of sustainable work, understanding and preventing work incapacity: the management of work (psychological, social and organisational factors), and their relationship with health, safety and performance. Particular interests include: ageing, work and health; mental health at work; managing chronic (mental and physical) health conditions at work; gender issues in occupational health; menopause; preventing and managing work-related stress; health and safety legislation, policy and guidance; staff and organisational issues in hospital-based care for older patients.

Amanda's work and that of her PhD students and researchers has been supported by government bodies such as the Economic & Social Science Research Council, British Health & Safety Executive, European Commission, World Health Organisation and National Institute for Health Research. Her research has also been funded by organisations such as Shell International Exploration & Production, BBC World Service, Ford of Europe, trades unions such as UNISON, and charities such as the British Association for Women in Policing, Royal College of Nursing, British Occupational Health Research Foundation, and Age UK. 

Sayeed Khan MB BS BMedSci DGM FRCGP FRCP FFOM FRSA MIOSH DM is the first Special Professor in Occupational Health at the University of Nottingham. 

Sayeed has been the Chief Medical Adviser of EEF, the manufacturers' organisation, for the last nine years, influencing workplace health in 6,000 organisations. 

Sayeed qualified and practised as a GP before specialising in occupational medicine. He is one of a few physicians in the country awarded a Fellowship [highest recognition] in three specialties: Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners, the Faculty of Occupational Medicine and the Royal College of Physicians.

Sayeed has been involved with a number of influential bodies including the Health, Work and Well-being Strategy National Stakeholders Council, NICE’s Programme Development Group producing the long term sickness absence guidance, BOHRF’s Research Committee, the Government’s Sick Note Review Stakeholder Group, the FOM’s OH Standards and Accreditation Group, the RCP’s OH Clinical Effectiveness Unit and the RCGP’s National Education Programme in Health and Work for GPs.

Sayeed was a Board Member of HSE for six years, representing professional bodies. Sayeed’s other appointments include being on the Board of Trustees of the European Academy of OH Psychology. He does regular clinical work and is the Occupational Physician for an ice cream factory.