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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.
Tag Archives: Cancer survivorship
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
DECEMBER: LIVING WITH AND BEYOND CANCER
BUPA: LIVING WITH AND BEYOND CANCER (2013) BUPA has recently published an eBook titled Living With and Beyond Cancer. It is available to download free as a pdf (2MB) or as an eBook at: http://www.bupa.co.uk/beyondcancer?cmpid=soc-fbook_bupauk. It is also available as an app on iPad, Google … Continue reading
NOVEMBER: SCOT-PAIS
RESEARCH THROUGH THE METIS COLLABORATION: The Scot-PAIS Project The Scot-PAIS research project, led by Dr Sara MacLennan, is focused on the development of a new system for providing practical evidence-based information and advice on working life to those who have … Continue reading
JUNE: THE CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABLE WORKING LIFE (CSWL)
CSWL: Launch & Introduction The new Centre ~ CSWL ~ has been approved by the Academic Board of Birkbeck University of London as a School-level body in the School of Business, Economics & Informatics. It was officially launched on Tuesday 25th June as part … Continue reading
MARCH: WORK FOUNDATION REPORT
Returning To Work: Cancer survivors and the Health and Work Assessment and Advisory Service On 18th March, The Work Foundation launched its report on the recent development of return to work support services in the UK which looked at the issues that … Continue reading
MARCH: HEALTH AND WELLBEING AT WORK 2013
Cancer Survivorship and Working Life With Dr Sara MacLennan, I presented at this year’s Health and Wellbeing at Work Conference in the NEC Birmingham on Wednesday 6th March (11.10 – 11.50). We talked about cancer survivorship and working life in … Continue reading
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I am Tom Cox: I am both an organizational and a health psychologist of some experience broadly specialising in occupational and public health issues relating to the sustainability and the quality of working life. I was awarded the CBE in … Continue reading
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