Dr Ali Afsharian, BA and MA in clinical psychology (USWR, Iran); His PhD (UniSA, Australia) focus was on Psychosocial Safety Climate (PSC) from composition and dispersion perspectives to highlight and prevent psychosocial risk factors at national and international levels at work. He investigated and compared PSC in different cultural contexts; Australian and Iranian workplaces. He is currently working as an academic researcher at Centre for Workplace Excellence at UniSA.
Ali’s research interests are mainly organisational and clinical psychology, psychosocial safety climate, psychosocial risk factors, employees' variability of underlying perception of managerial policies and management plans to design working environments;... Read more
About me
Dr Ali Afsharian, BA and MA in clinical psychology (USWR, Iran); His PhD (UniSA, Australia) focus was on Psychosocial Safety Climate (PSC) from composition and dispersion perspectives to highlight and prevent psychosocial risk factors at national and international levels at work. He investigated and compared PSC in different cultural contexts; Australian and Iranian workplaces. He is currently working as an academic researcher at Centre for Workplace Excellence at UniSA.
Ali’s research interests are mainly organisational and clinical psychology, psychosocial safety climate, psychosocial risk factors, employees' variability of underlying perception of managerial policies and management plans to design working environments; psychosocial health issues and risk factors at work, cross-cultural prevention and intervention for work health and safety and refugees’ education, mental health and employment.
About me
Doctor of Philosophy University of South Australia
Master of Clinical Psychology Uni of Social Welfare & Rehabilitation Sciences
Bachelor of General Psychology Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
Facilitator and Research Partner for Mind Your Head Program SA, SA Unions, 06/05/2025 - 31/12/2026
Comprehensive Psychosocial Safety Climate and Psychosocial Risks Assessment Report for KiwiRail (New Zealand), KiwiRail Holdings Limited, 01/08/2024 - 31/12/2025
Maggie Beer Foundation analysis and review, The Maggie Beer Foundation Ltd, 09/10/2020 - 01/03/2021
Research
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
| Year | Output |
|---|---|
| 2024 |
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| 2019 |
7
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| Year | Output |
|---|---|
| 2025 |
Open access
|
| 2025 |
2
2
4
|
| 2025 |
Open access
|
| 2024 |
Open access
3
2
105
|
| 2023 |
Open access
29
17
3
|
| 2023 |
Open access
1
1
|
| 2023 |
6
6
|
| 2022 |
Open access
4
3
4
|
| 2022 |
Open access
13
9
29
|
| 2022 |
Open access
6
5
1
|
| 2021 |
Open access
16
12
3
|
| 2019 |
Open access
24
22
3
|
| 2018 |
23
17
3
|
| 2018 |
5
|
External engagement & recognition
| Organisation | Country |
|---|---|
| Atieh Hospital | IRAN |
| Curtin University | AUSTRALIA |
| Employee Assistance Professional Association of Australia | AUSTRALIA |
| Erasmus University Rotterdam | NETHERLANDS |
| Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz | GERMANY |
| Monash University | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Adelaide | AUSTRALIA |
| University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Sydney | AUSTRALIA |
External engagement & recognition
| Engagement/recognition | Year |
|---|---|
Committee MemberAsia Pacific Academy for Psychosocial Factors (APA PFAW) |
2023 |
MemberInternational Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH) |
2023 |
Scientific Committee MemberJoint Congress of the International Commission on Occupational Health - Work Organization and Psychosocial Factors (ICOH-WOPS) & Asia Pacific Academy of Psychosocial Factors at Work (APA-PFAW) 2023 |
2023 |
Best Presentation, 2nd Conference of the APAPFAWThe Asia Pacific Academy for Psychosocial Factors at Work (APAPFAW) |
2021 |
Teaching & student supervision
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
| Thesis title | Student status |
|---|---|
| 111140 - Mind the Worker: Transformative Change for a Human-Centred Corporate Climate | Current |
| Flex-place arrangements and their relationship to employee and organisational outcomes | Current |
| Impact of the place of work autonomy on work and family outcomes | Current |
