Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

I am accepting Honours and PhD students interested in any of the below topic areas in the field of management and organisational/work psychology:

- Inclusive Work Design and Workforce Integration including remote working

- Entrepreneurship, MSMEs, Family Business

- Innovation Skills, Paradox Mindsets, Co-Design Approaches

- Digital Coaching, Immersive Learning Technologies, Digital Mental Health Platforms, Remote Work

- Disabilities, Neurodiversity, Trauma, and Mental Health

1993 …2024

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Join the Opportunity Tech Lab Research Team!

https://www.monash.edu/business/impact-labs/opportunity-tech-lab

 

We are currently accepting PhD students who are passionate about contributing to an equitable society and digital economy through innovative applied research. Our interdisciplinary team explores a variety of impactful topics, including:

 

Digital Innovations for Social Good: Focus on developing and implementing digital technological solutions that address societal inequities. For example, virtual reality programs that counteract socio-cultural stigmas or foster an empathetic understanding of the barriers people with disabilities face on their path to open employment and digital tools to identify bias in digital services or apps.

 

Inclusive Employment & Entrepreneurship: Leverage emerging technologies (e.g., VR, AR, AI) to tackle bias, discrimination, and barriers faced by minorities and disadvantaged groups, such as vulnerable and low-income women, neurodivergent individuals (e.g., autism, ADHD, Dyslexia), people with cognitive impairments, and people with mental health conditions (e.g., depression, anxiety, PTSD).

 

Social Impact Evaluation: Measure and evaluate the effectiveness of social initiatives. This theme involves developing new metrics and indicators to assess the impact of various programs and technologies on all members of society.

 

Mental Health Disparities: Address systemic social and economic disparities, focusing on mental health disparities. Research may include studying the social determinants of mental health and initiatives to improve access to mental health care for underserved populations, e.g., creating mental health platforms for underserved populations and digital coaching tools to support employee mental health.

 

Inclusive Work Design: Explore innovative approaches to work and learning using virtual and augmented reality. Projects could involve designing VR-based training modules for people with disabilities and their employers or developing AR tools to foster inclusive behaviours in groups and organisations.

Biography

Professor Dr. Charmine Härtel is an acknowledged preeminent scholar-practitioner in inclusive employment and entrepreneurship and emotions and wellbeing at work, evidenced by election as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences (ASSA), the (U.S.) Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM), the Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI), and Society for Organizational Behavior in Australia (SOBA). Her awards include the inaugural 2019 HR Academic of the Year Award from the Australian Human Resources Institute; the Australian Psychological Society’s Elton Mayo Award for scholarly excellence, the Martin E. P. Seligman Applied Research Award, and 19 best paper awards. Her research appears in over 200 publications. 

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 1 - No Poverty
  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
  • SDG 4 - Quality Education
  • SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
  • SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
  • SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
  • SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
  • SDG 13 - Climate Action

Research area keywords

  • organisational behaviour
  • Entrepreneurship and innovation
  • neurodiversity
  • small business
  • employability
  • Inclusive business
  • Digital technologies
  • emotions/emotional labour
  • autism employment
  • Virtual Reality for Training and Rehabilitation
  • social impact
  • interdisciplinary research