Michelle Oppert

I am an Academic Research Assistant and currently completing my PhD. Both my ARA work and doctoral research are interdisciplinary and currently has me positioned in the School of STEM, the School of Justice and Society, and the Centre for Workplace Excellence in the Business School.

My research interests are broad but typically pertain to psychosocial factors related to organisational psychology and human factors in the workplace. My doctoral research is exploring ageing, creativity, and psychosocial safety at work, with some engineering workforce exemplars. I have a number of formal qualifications including a Diploma of Counselling, but most recently I completed my Psychology (Honours) degree in 2016, here at UniSA. Since then I have been employed on multiple projects as an ARA with a variety of academics and stakeholders.

My areas of expertise include investigating and understanding phenomena that impact individuals' psychosocial experience of work. To do this I conduct interviews, and make use of mixed-methods including both subjective and objective quantitative data. I have completed studies examining Aged Care Workers and Person Centred Care, Nurses’ Safety, Manufacturing Readiness for Industry 4.0, Entreprenurship and Cyber Security, Ageing in the Engineering Workforce, Workplace Bullying and a number of projects on Creativity. I have a strong focus on making my research accessible and useful to stakeholders/consumers/clients.

Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology (SIOP)

Australian Association of Gerontology (AAG)