September news about Society Culture and Health

6 September 2017

Papers

Parkinson, J., M. Pescud et al (accepted 7th August 2017). Towards tackling the wicked problem of obesity: An introduction to the food wellbeing compass. Journal of Social Marketing.

Buick, F., G. Carey, and M. Pescud (in press). Structural Changes to the Public Sector and Cultural Incompatibility: The Consequences of Inadequate Change Management. Australian Journal of Public Administration.

 

Book chapters

Is It Just Too Hard? Gender Time Symmetry in Market and Nonmarket Work and Subjective Time Pressure in Australia, Finland, and Korea, Craig, L, Brown, J and Strazdins, L (2017) in Gender and Time Use in a Global Context: The Economics of Employment and Unpaid Labor editors Rachel Connelly and Ebu Kongar, Palgrave MacMillan. Pp 465-494.

 

Funding received

Ruth Kharis DAA Healthcare Professional Program Travel Grant 2017

 

Impact and engagement

A paper co-authored by Lyndall Strazdins has been shortlisted for the annual Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research and is listed in the top 15 (out of 2500) articles for 2016. Westrupp, E. M., Strazdins, L., Martin, A., Cooklin, A., Zubrick, S. R., & Nicholson, J. M. (2016). Maternal Work–Family Conflict and Psychological Distress: Reciprocal Relationships Over 8 Years. Journal of Marriage and Family, 78(1), 107-126.

Lyndall Strazdins was an invited panel member for the DSS policy forum on the Millennium Mums Project.

Liana Leach was invited by the NGO AFFIRM (funder of mental health research) to present her research investigating the impact of the psychosocial environment caring for an infant at home on postnatal mental health.