Dr May Young Loh

May is a Research Associate of PSC Global Observatory, Centre of Workplace Excellence, University of South Australia. She is interested in managing psychosocial factors at work and promoting psychological health and safety. Her research mainly focuses on the Psychosocial Safety Climate (PSC), job design, and occupational health and well-being. She is excel at quantitative research method and has experience conducting advanced data analysis, including multilevel modeling, continuous time modeling, and meta-analysis. She is the winner of the "Anthony Mainguené-CIECST Foundation's international and multidisciplinary thesis Award" 2023 and University of South Australia's "Tony Winefield PhD Thesis Prize in Psychology". Her work provides insights to inform national policies on work health and safety and is very important to promote the national standards for managing psychosocial risks at workplaces. Besides, she is working with several organisations as an external academic consultant by providing suggestions and recommendations for their PSC development project, resulting in award-winning projects from the Australian Institute of Health and Safety and the Australian Psychological Society. 

May has published articles with the top-tiered journals in the field, such as the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Journal of Occupational and Organisational Psychology and Safety Science. Till 2023, May has published 12 articles with 6 in quality journals as rated by the Web of Science (WOS) Q1 journals and 6 book chapters, and been cited over 300 times in the past five years (H-index = 7). May is the Section Editor of “Stress & Health” (WOS Q1, impact factor= 4.1), a Visiting Research fellow of the University of Tokyo, a plenary speaker at the 18th Annual Conference of the Asia Pacific Employee Assistance Round Table in Bali, Indonesia. She is currently the Executive Officer of the Asia Pacific Academy for Psychosocial Factors at Work (APAPFAW) and acted as the Secretariat and organizing committee for the 2nd APAPFAW conference in 2021.

Currently, May works on an Australian Research Council (ARC) funded Laureate Project under Prof. Maureen Dollard, looking at the international and national determinants of decent workplaces. Together with Prof. Dollard, May has secured an international funding "Australia-Germany Joint Research Cooperation Scheme" from the German Academic Exchange Service and Universities Australia. She is the recipient of the competitive Australia Research (International) Training Program Scholarship. She has received research nominations for the UniSA Research and Enterprise Excellence Award 2022 and the UniSA Justice and Society Champion Award 2020. Before joining UniSA, she worked as a research assistant for an ARC Linkage Project at the University of Malaya, Malaysia.

Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy The University of South Australia

• Master of Philosophy Universiti Malaya

• Bachelor of Counselling Universiti Malaya