Dr Helen Winefield

Qualifications

Qualifications: PhD, FAPS
Title: Professor

Position: Professor (0.5fte)

Teaching Interests

Master of Psychology (Health) (Co Coordinator, Placement Coordinator, Coordinator of the Health Psychology course).

Psychology IIB health psychology lectures; MBBS I and II lectures

Supervisions of PhD and Master of Psychology research projects and theses.

Research Interests

• family and professional care-giving in illness & disability

• occupational health psychology (work stress, work-life balance, worksite health promotion)

• lifespan psychosocial development

 

Research Funding

Current grants:

 

2008-2012: AH Winefield; PH Delfabbro; MF Dollard; HR Winefield; JC Metzer; A Hammarstrom. Transition from school to work: A 10 year longitudinal study of unemployment, underemployment, social exclusion, and mental health in young people. Australian Research Council DP0879497; total $495571

2009-2012: G. Hugo, G. Wittert, R. Adams, L. Cobiac, M. Daniel, C. Findlay, A. Taylor, D. Wilson, H. Winefield, A. Woollacott, R. Ruffin Australia’s Baby Boomer Generation, Obesity and Work – Patterns, Causes and Implications ARC LP0990065: $641000 (composed of 221k for 2009, 207k for 2010, 213k for 2011)

2010-2012: Tuckey, M., Winefield, A.H., Winefield, H.R. & Black, Q. Helping retail employees deal with threatening situations at work: Coping with acute and chronic  stressors. ARC LP 100100340. $240,000 (total)

2012-2017: Hammarstrom A, Hagglof B, Winefield H, Westerlund H, Lundman B, Virtanen P, Strandh M. Mental health in adolescence and the paths ahead. An ecological life course approach to mental health development into adulthood. Swedish grants agency FORMAS Children and young people's mental health, programme grant 4705 5759 4555 4957 5648 5081 (30 million Swedish Crowns)

 

 

Publications

Professional Associations

Australian Psychological Society  (Fellow);

Colleges of Clinical, Health and Organisational Psychologists;

College of Health Psychologists (SA) Section committee (Sec./Treasurer)

 

Community Engagement

Associate Editor, Journal of Health Psychology

Registered Psychologist (Psychology Board of Australia)

Health, Disability and Lifespan Development research group, School of Psychology (Convenor)

Entry last updated: Wednesday, 23 Jan 2013