Dr Ali Afsharian

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.

Qualifications

• 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