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I was educated at Latymer Upper School, London, and at the University of Nottingham where I eventually joined the academic staff. After 41 years service, I retired from the Chair of Organisational Psychology in 2012.During my time at Nottingham, I became Head of what was then the Department of Psychology (1994-1998). In 1999, I established the Institute of Work, Health & Organisations as a new international postgraduate research school. The Institute was formally recognised by the WHO as a Collaborating Centre in Occupational Health. I stood down as its Founding Director in 2010 and took a year’s sabbatical before retiring from the University in 2012 to join Birkbeck University of London as its new Chair of Occupational Health Psychology & Management. I resigned from Birkbeck in 2020.
I was awarded a CBE in the New Years Honours List 2000 for services to occupational health. This award was largely related to my role in the development of the Management Standards approach to work-related stress and psychosocial risks to employee health. The following year, 2003, I was made an Honorary Fellow of both the Faculty of Occupational Medicine, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (Dublin) and of the Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors. In 2008, I was presented with an award for a Distinguished Contribution to Occupational Health Psychology jointly by the American Psychological Association, the US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and the US Society for Occupational Health Psychology.
In 2012, I was awarded an Honorary Chair in Psychosocial Oncology by the University of Aberdeen and an Emeritus Chair by the University of Nottingham.
I founded the journal Work & Stress in the late 1980s with my colleague, Professor Phillip Dewe, and stood down as its Managing Editor some 27 years later at the end of 2013. I remain its Emeritus Editor.
You can find more information on me and my connections on Linkedin and see me on You Tube.
Tom Cox
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View my Alec Rodger Memorial Lecture "Resilience, People, Organisations and their Communities" on YouTube.CSWL
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The Centre for Sustainable Working Life (CSWL) was formally established in the School of Business, Economics & Informatics at Birkbeck University of London on 25th June 2013.I remain its first Director. Professor Phillip Dewe was its Deputy Director until his retirement in 2015. The future of the Centre is currently under review after being moved to the Department of Organisational Psychology.
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I hold an Honorary Chair in Psychosocial Oncology at the University of Aberdeen. This position supports my role in the METIS Collaboration which is an initiative of the Academic Urology Unit in the Institute of Applied Health Sciences, School of Medicine & Dentistry.METIS is concerned with the psychosocial, organisational and economic perspectives on the patient’s journey through cancer. It is also concerned with the rerad across from our knowledge of cancer survivorship and work to other long term conditions. My contribution is currently in relation to cancer survivorship, working life and work participation.
It has been funded by UCAN, Macmillan in Scotland, NHS Grampian and the ESRC.
At present, METIS is based around a collaboration between the Universities of Aberdeen and Birkbeck University of London.
Author Archives: The Old Grey Fox
MARCH: PRESENTATION ON SURVIVING CANCER AND WORK AT BIRKBECK
SEMINAR @ BIRKBECK’S DEPARTMENT OF ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY: CANCER SURVIVORSHIP AND WORKING LIFE (25th March 2014) I presented a paper on ‘Cancer survivorship and working life‘ as part of the seminar programme run by the Department of Organizational Psychology at Birkbeck University of … Continue reading
MARCH: NEW CHAIR IN WORK, HEALTH & POLICY
NEW CHAIR AWARDED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM IN WORK, HEALTH & POLICY Dr Stavroula Leka has been awarded a Chair in Work, Health & Policy in the Department of Psychiatry & Applied Psychology at the University of Nottingham. Dr Leka … Continue reading
MARCH: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
PUBLICATION OF NEW EU SURVEY & REPORT An interview-based survey of 42,000 women in the EU by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights has shown that a third of all women in the Member States had experienced either physical or … Continue reading
FEBRUARY: PRESENTATION AT CAFE MED ABERDEEN
IMPACT OF CANCER ON WORKING MEN AND THEIR FAMILIES: CAFE MED I presented at a Cafe Med open session in the Suttie Centre, University of Aberdeen Medical School on Monday 24th February. The session, which was part of the University’s public engagement … Continue reading
FEBRUARY: NEW PUBLICATION
TIME TO ACT: THE CHALLENGES OF WORKING DURING AND AFTER CANCER ~ INITIATIVES IN RESEARCH AND PRACTICE The CANWORK Group has had an editorial published on the challenges of working during and after cancer in the European Journal of Oncology … Continue reading
JANUARY: NEW PUBLICATION
PHYSICAL & PSYCHOSOCIAL RISKS TO EMPLOYEE WELL-BEING & QUALITY OF LIFE We have had our empirical paper on the impact of physical and psychosocial risks on employee well-being and quality of life accepted for publication in Safety Science. It describes the … Continue reading
JANUARY: THE VALUE OF HEALTH SCREENING
GENERAL HEALTH CHECKS IN ADULTS FOR REDUCING MORBIDITY & MORTALITY FROM DISEASE In October 2012, The Cochrane Library published a Review on General Health Checks in Adults for Reducing Morbidity and Mortality from Disease by Krogsbøll, Jørgensen, Grønhøj Larsen and … Continue reading
JANUARY: LONG TERM ILLNESS & EMPLOYMENT
Mills & Reeve LLP: Employment Review for 2013 2014 The UK law firm Mills & Reeve LLP publish a variety of updates and briefing papers each year. These can be accessed at: http://www.mills-reeve.com. On the 6th January, it published its … Continue reading
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