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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.
METIS
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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.
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SEPTEMBER: NEW PUBLICATION
HUGHES SYNDROME & QUALITY OF LIFE We have had our empirical paper on Antiphospholipid (Hughes) syndrome: description of population and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) using the SF-36 accepted for publication in LUPUS (SAGE Publications). The journal’s impact factor is: 2.481. It is ranked … Continue reading
SEPTEMBER: NEW ESRC GRANT
ESRC SEMINAR SERIES: SOCIAL SCIENCE PERSPECTIVES ON THE EMPLOYMENT OF THOSE WITH CANCER: PSYCHOSOCIAL;, ORGANIZATIONAL AND ECONOMIC ISSUES We have been awarded one of the new ESRC Seminar Series grants to discuss the psychosocial, organisational and economic issues that relate to … Continue reading
LOOKING FORWARD: IPOS 2014 LISBON
16th WORLD CONGRESS OF PSYCHO-ONCOLOGY : LISBON The International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS) is holding its 16th World Congress of Psycho-Oncology in Lisbon, Portugal, 20-24 October 2014. IPOS is partnered by the Portuguese Psycho-Oncology Society (SPPO), the Portuguese Academy of Psycho-Oncology (APPO), the Portuguese Society … Continue reading
NEW JOURNAL: BURNOUT RESEARCH
A NEW JOURNAL IN OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY: BURNOUT RESEARCH (ELSEVIER). Burnout Research is a peer-reviewed international journal aimed at presenting basic, translational and clinical high-quality research related to the phenomenon of burnout. As the first journal dedicated to understanding the causes of burnout and … Continue reading
JUNE: JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY
NEW EDITOR CONFIRMED FOR THE JOURNAL: PETER CHEN Peter Chen, currently Professor of Management at the International Graduate School of Business University of South Australia, has been appointed as the nextEditor of the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. The journal will be, once again, in … Continue reading
JUNE: KNIGHTHOOD FOR PROFESSOR CARY COOPER CBE
QUEENS’S BIRTHDAY HONOURS: PROFESSOR CARY COOPER KNIGHTED. From Hi Cary! to Arise Professor Sir Cary Cooper: Congratulations. Each year, on two occasions, HM Queen Elizabeth honours distinguished citizens of the UK through a series of civil awards, MBE, OBE and CBE, with the … Continue reading
MAY: PSYCHOSOCIAL ONCOLOGY IN PERTH WESTERN AUSTRALIA
APRIL: EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY LONDON CONFERENCE
11th EAOHP Conference London 2014: Looking at the Past ~ Planning for the Future: Capitalising on OHP Multi-disciplinarity The EAOHP’s London Conference 2014 was hosted by Birkbeck University of London and held from Monday 14th to Wednesday 16th April largely in Senate House. … Continue reading
APRIL: ANNUAL CONFERENCE ~ BRITISH OCCUPATIONAL HYGIENE SOCIETY
KEYNOTE: PSYCHOSOCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT AND EMPLOYEE HEALTH: PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE The Annual Conference of the British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS) is being held at Nottingham Trent University‘s Conference Centre in the heart of the City (8th – 10th April). … Continue reading
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