Dr Michelle Tuckey

I am a Lecturer in the School of Psychology and a member of the Work & Stress Research Group in the Centre for Applied Psychological Research. I currently work predominantly in the areas of organisational psychology and occupational health psychology. My PhD, however, was in the area of applied cognitive psychology, focussing on how expectations of crime (crime schemas) influence eyewitness memory.

From mid-2003 to mid-2005, I worked as the Senior Research Officer, and later Acting Research Manager, at the Australasian Centre for Policing Research. At the Centre I was primarily involved in formulating national/ Australasian policy such as coordinating the revision of Directions in Australasian Policing, the key strategy document for police agencies in Australia and New Zealand.

I joined the School of Psychology in May 2005. My current research focus is on psychosocial influences on well-being at work, particularly acute stressors (e.g., potentially traumatic events, such as those attended by emergency services personnel), emotion regulation at work, and the pathways to positive well-being.

Representative projects include:

-Studying the emotional demands of fire-fighting, and how to combat these demands.

-Working with the Police Association of New South Wales to identify the trajectory of psychological injury within policing and determine appropriate points and methods to combat such injuries.

-Studying how empowering leadership by Fire Brigade Captains helps to increase energy, dedication, and interest levels of volunteer fire-fighters.

-Examining the role of working conditions (job demands and resources) in allowing bullying to take place, and the impact of bullying on the cardiovascular health of police officers.

-Investigating the impact of workplace bullying and negative work behaviours on cognition.

-Looking at the relationship between tea, coffee, and other beverage consumption with work performance, engagement, and mood

Member, Australian Psychological Society

Member, European Associaiton for Work and Organizational Psychology

Member, Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies

Member, Critical Incident Stress Management Foundation Australia

Bachelor of Psychology (Honours, First Class), Flinders University

PhD, Flinders University

Hall, G.B., Dollard, M.F., Tuckey, M.R., Winefield, A.H., & Thompson, B. (in press, accepted 11 Nov 2008). A longitudinal study of spillover of job demands and emotional exhaustion to work-family conflict in Australian frontline police. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology.

Winwood, P.C., Tuckey, M.R., Peters, R., & Dollard, M.F. (2009). Identification and measurement of work-related psychological injury: Piloting the psychological injury risk indicator (PIRI) among front line police. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 51, 1057-1065.

Tuckey, M.R., Dollard, M.F., Hosking, P.J., & Winefield, A.H. (2009). Workplace bullying: The role of psychosocial work environment factors. International Journal of Stress Management, 16, 215-232.

Lynch, J., & Tuckey, M.R. (2008). The police turnover problem: Fact or fiction? Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management, 6-18.

Tuckey, M.R. (2007). Issues in the debriefing debate for emergency services: Moving research outcomes forward. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 14, 106-116.

Dollard, M.F., Skinner, N., & Tuckey, M.R., & Bailey, T. (2007). National surveillance of psychosocial risk factors in the workplace: An international review. Work & Stress, 21, 1-29.

Tuckey, M.R., Brewer, N., & Barnes, K. (2006). Source attributes and feedback seeking: A field study. International Journal of Organisational Behaviour, 11, 20-30.

Tuckey, M.R., & Brewer, N. (2003). The influence of schemas, stimulus ambiguity, and interview schedule on eyewitness memory over time. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 9, 101-118.

Tuckey, M.R., & Brewer, N. (2003). How schemas affect eyewitness memory over repeated retrieval attempts. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 17, 785-800.

Tuckey, M., Brewer, N., & Williamson, P. (2002). The influence of motives and goal orientation on feedback seeking. Journal of Occupational and Organisational Psychology, 75, 195-216.

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Psychology

• Volunteer firefighter demands, resources, and leadership
• Psychological debriefing
• Workplace bullying