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Body, Heart and Mind in Business Research Group
Advancing knowledge in employee performance, health and wellbeing
We are a multidisciplinary group with an aim to advance knowledge on how the human body, heart and mind interact in work settings.
Latest Announcements
How to cultivate a culture of care
Professors Anya Johnson and Helena Nguyen collaborate with the Black Dog Institute and Mindrama for this webinar on mental health in the workplace.
Understand your role in protecting mental health. Get to know your responsibilities, your limits and the simple, practical actions that can make a major difference to your team.
BHM co-directors Helena Nguyen and Anya Johnson have been awarded a second major grant from iCare as part of a consortium of Universities: with Curtin and Monash.
The SMART design for care project is an exciting and innovative research project – investigating the effectiveness of work design interventions to improve mental health with industry partners in the health and social assistance industry, to address the increasing mental health compensation claims. This next project will investigate the efficacy of different interventions and how we can scale up the research once there is “proof of concept.”
For more information on the project see: https://www.transformativeworkdesign.com/smart-design-for-care and please follow the LinkedIn page for regular updates.
Karyn Wang has published a new article on the spillover effect from customer mistreatment https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10946705211049098
Anya Johnson and Helena Nguyen has published a new article on mindfulness and error hiding in the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology: https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2022-60042-001.html
Stefan Volk and Kevin Lowe published a new article on circadian leadership in the Journal of Organizational Behavior:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/job.2659?af=R
Check out our latest research on circadian rhythms, chronotypes and paradoxical leadership published in the Academy of Management Review by BHM co-director Stefan Volk:
https://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/amr.2020.0468
Shaping the workplace for wellbeing and productivity: Read the latest insights from our Research Partnerships website
Australian Journal of Management
Call for papers - Special issue: Managing with compassion in a complex, changing world: New research & application
Deadline Expression of Interest (5-page abstract submissions): March 2022
Deadline Full papers submission deadline: November 2022
More information (PDF, 215KB)
About us
Our work integrates research from the fields of management, psychology, biology and medical sciences, adopting methods and approaches to understand the effects that physiological and somatic factors have on how individuals and groups think, feel and behave at work.
We aim to lead thinking around physiological functioning and employee performance, health, and wellbeing in organisations. Our work has been published in highly regarded journals including the:
- Academy of Management Review
- Academy of Management Journal
- Journal of Applied Psychology
- Journal of Management
- Journal of International Business Studies
- Organizational Research Methods.
We have received funding through Australian Research Council discovery grants, ARC linkage grants and other competitive grants totalling more than $5 million.
Our work is regularly covered by national and international media including The Wall Street Journal, The Independent, Huffington Post, Business Insider, ABC News and SBS News.
Our people
- Dr Stefan Volk
Focus areas: physiological and psychological processes in employees. - Dr Helena Nguyen
Focus areas: psychology and organisation behaviour. - Dr Anya Johnson
Focus areas: organisational behaviour.
- Mina Askovic
- Eliza Byington
- Michael Cavanagh
- Nicole Celestine
- Shuoxin Cheng
- Connie Deng
- Shanta Dey
- James Donald
- Lina Engelen
- Vivien Forner
- Nick Glozier
- Lisa Gulesserian
- Emily Hibbert
- Felicia Huppert
- Maria Ishkova
- Min-Kyu Joo
- Sviatlana Kamarova
- Sunghoon Kim
- Hannah Kunst
- Yuan Liao
- Na Liu
- Vanessa Loh
- Kevin Lowe
- Carolyn MacCann
- Lee Martin
- Emmilly Mendelevich
- Ju Li Ng
- Anastasia Sintchenko
- Jiayi (Vivian) Sun
- Betina Szkudlarek
- Jewel Tai
- Herman Tse
- Agnieszka Tymula
- Karyn Wang
- Mo Wang
- Annalena Welp
- Tarli Young
- Yumeng (Brad) Yue
- Nate Zettna
Workshops and events
Find out how our research can influence your workplace through workshops and seminars by the Body, Heart and Mind in Business Research Group.
Videos
Inaugural Australian Compassion Research Forum
Biological rhythms and peak-time team performance
Foreign language processing in multinational companies
Intelligence testing
Managing emotional labour
Co-directors
Deputy Director
Podcasts
How can your 'body clock' boost your productivity? - Stefan Volk on Campus Review, Nov 2022
Wake me up in 2022: working through uncertainty fatigue
with Dr Shanta Dey on ABC Radio's This Working Life, July 2021