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 through workplace intervention, positive work climate and leadership training. Her research mainly focuses on the Psychosocial Safety Climate (PSC), job design, and occupational health and well-being. Her PhD project aims to put theory into practice, by examining the mechanisms of how to promote a psychologically healthy working environment. 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... Read more
About me
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 through workplace intervention, positive work climate and leadership training. Her research mainly focuses on the Psychosocial Safety Climate (PSC), job design, and occupational health and well-being. Her PhD project aims to put theory into practice, by examining the mechanisms of how to promote a psychologically healthy working environment. 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. Besides, she is working with several organisations as an external academic consultant by providing suggestions and recommendations for their PSC development project.
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. She has collaborated with world-class researchers from Germany, Malaysia, Norway and Australia. 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.
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.
About me
Doctor of Philosophy The University of South Australia
Master of Philosophy Universiti Malaya
Bachelor of Counselling Universiti Malaya
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 |
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2023 |
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2020 |
Open access
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2019 |
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Year | Output |
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2023 |
Open access
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2023 |
Open access
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2023 |
Open access
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2021 |
Open access
7
4
11
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2020 |
20
15
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2020 |
4
1
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2019 |
Open access
28
20
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2018 |
Open access
63
45
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2018 |
Open access
9
7
6
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2017 |
11
5
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External engagement & recognition
Organisation | Country |
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California State University | UNITED STATES |
Can Tho Medical College | VIET NAM |
Flinders University | AUSTRALIA |
Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz | GERMANY |
Mahidol University | THAILAND |
University of Adelaide | AUSTRALIA |
University of Indonesia | INDONESIA |
University of Malaya | MALAYSIA |
University of Putra | MALAYSIA |
University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
University of Stavanger | NORWAY |
University of Sydney | AUSTRALIA |
External engagement & recognition
Engagement/recognition | Year |
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Elected Executive officerAsia Pacific Academy for Psychosocial Factors at Work |
2024 |
MemberEuropean Academy of Occupational Health Psychology |
2024 |
MemberEuropean Association of Work and Organizational Psychology |
2024 |
Section editorStress and Health (IF = 4.0, Q1 journal) |
2024 |
Speaker at the 18th Annual Congress of APEARAsia Pacific Employee Assistance Roundtable (APEAR) |
2024 |
Visiting Research FellowUniversity of Tokyo |
2024 |
Best WSH program Awards [partnership with Xero ltd]Australian Institute Health and Safety (AIHS) |
2023 |
Elected Executive officerAsia Pacific Academy for Psychosocial Factors at Work |
2023 |
Invited lecture for HDR student“Psychosocial safety climate: Latest research and advancement”, Faculty of Business and Education, Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz |
2023 |
Invited presentation“Psychosocial safety climate: Latest research and advancement”, Utrecht University |
2023 |
Invited Workshop speaker“Psychosocial safety climate Global Project”, Joint conference of ICOH-WOPS and Asia Pacific Academy for Psychosocial Factors at Work |
2023 |
MemberEuropean Academy of Occupational Health Psychology |
2023 |
MemberEuropean Association of Work and Organizational Psychology |
2023 |
Scientific committeeJoint conference of ICOH-WOPS and Asia Pacific Academy for Psychosocial Factors at Work |
2023 |
Section editorStress and Health journal |
2023 |
Symposium chairJoint conference of ICOH-WOPS and Asia Pacific Academy for Psychosocial Factors at Work |
2023 |
Symposium chair21st European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP) congress |
2023 |
Elected Executive officerAsia Pacific Academy for Psychosocial Factors at Work |
2022 |
Invited lecture to HDR student“Conducting multilevel data analysis using Mplus”, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya |
2022 |
Invited lecture to HDR student“Building PSC in workplaces”, Faculty of Business and Education, Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz |
2022 |
Invited presentation“Psychosocial safety climate”, Germany Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health – BauA |
2022 |
Invited presentation“All about PSC”, WorkSafe Victoria |
2022 |
Invited presentation“Psychosocial safety climate”, Victorian Public Sector Commission |
2022 |
Invited workshop speaker“Masterclass Psychosocial Safety Climate – Optimizing burn out prevention and work-related psychotherapeutic interventions”, Psychosomatische Medizin Conference, Berlin, Germany |
2022 |
MemberEuropean Academy of Occupational Health Psychology |
2022 |
Presentation chair15th European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology Conference |
2022 |
Section editorStress and Health journal |
2022 |
Best Presentation Award2nd Conference of Asia Pacific Academy for Psychosocial Factors at Work |
2021 |
Elected Executive officerAsia Pacific Academy for Psychosocial Factors at Work |
2021 |
Invited lecture to HDR student“Conducting multilevel data analysis using R”, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya |
2021 |
Secretariat2nd Conference of Asia Pacific Academy for Psychosocial Factors at Work |
2021 |
Workplace Excellence Awards [partnership with Sydney Water]Australian Psychological Society |
2021 |
Executive officerAsia Pacific Academy for Psychosocial Factors at Work |
2020 |
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)Australia–Germany Joint Research Cooperation Scheme |
2020 |