Senior Lecturer
B.A., B.Com (Hons), PhD
| Contact Campus | Sandy Bay Campus |
| Building | Faculty of Business, Commerce Building |
| Room Reference | 309 |
| Telephone | +61 3 6226 2713 |
| Fax | +61 3 6226 2170 |
| Angela.Martin@utas.edu.au |
Angela teaches mainly in the area of human resource management, particularly in the areas of Organisational Behaviour (MBA) and Business Communication (undergraduate). Angela also co-ordinates the Honours programme.
In 2008, Angela was awarded the Vice-Chancellors Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.
In 2009 Angela was awarded a national teaching award from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citation for The creation of curricula and multimedia resources that develop interpersonal skills and psychological capital in current and future managers.
Angela completed her PhD in organisational psychology in 2002 and has taught in management and psychology courses at four Australian universities since 1996. Prior to working as a full-time academic, Angela project managed an Australian Research Council (ARC) Industry Linkage Partnership Grant investigating organisational change within public sector organisations and also worked as a policy & research officer in areas such as rural health, media and communications, economic development, industrial relations and vocational education. She also has experience as a client service officer for Legal Aid and as volunteer counsellor and counsellor trainer for the Queensland AIDS Council.
Angela leads a National Competitive Grant (ARC Linkage Partnership with beyond blue, Workcover Tasmania and the Tasmanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry) entitled “Promoting employee mental health through the development of managers’ psychological capital: A controlled field experiment” Also known as the Business in Mind Project.
She provides a management perspective as an investigator on two NHMRC partnership projects "Partnering Healthy @ Work" and "An integrated approach to mental health in the workplace". She has recently been involved in the development of a set of guidelines for organisations regarding the prevention of mental illness in the workplace www.prevention.workplace-mentalhealth.net.au. Angela is also a supervisor on a wide PhD projects on topics such as positive psychological capacities at the team level, workplace health promotion in small businesses, humour and work performance, work/life balance, emotional labour and costs associated with ‘presenteeism’ or working when unwell.
Angela’s research interests focus on the psychological aspects of work and organisations including employee well-being, managers' perspectives on mental health in the workplace, organisational climate, change management, communication and general human resource management issues.