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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.
Tag Archives: Cancer
APRIL: COLLABORATION MEETING
MEETING OF CSWL BIRKBECK & AUU ABERDEEN ON APPLIED RESEARCH & POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION A one-day meeting was held on 14th April at Birkbeck University of London between its Centre for Sustainable Working Life (CSWL), School of Business, Economics & Informatics, and … Continue reading
MARCH: THINGS THAT CANCER SURVIVORS AND THEIR GPS MAY NOT KNOW
The MUHC (McGill University Health Centre) super hospital in Montreal, Monday December 8, 2014.Vincenzo D’Alto / Montreal Gazette Gen Chaput, a physician at the McGill University Health Centre who oversees the Cancer Survivorship Program, says cancer survivors, their families and even their … 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
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
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
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