Professor Philip Bohle
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Qualifications: BA, Dip. Psych., PhD Positions held:
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Biography
Philip Bohle's research concentrates on occupational health. His principal research interests include:
- working hours, work-life conflict and health;
- the impact of workplace death on victims' families;
- the health and safety of ageing workers;
- the health and safety effects of precarious employment.
The research on working hours and health has contributed substantially to knowledge of structural relationships between working hours, social and organisational support, work-related control, work-life conflict and health. Related research has focussed on the psychometric refinement of diurnal type measures.
The stream of research on precarious employment, principally conducted in collaboration with Professor Michael Quinlan, has yielded well-cited systematic reviews, empirical studies and contributions to theory on the mechanisms through which precarious employment affects health and safety.
The research on workforce ageing includes an NHMRC/ARC project examining individual and organisational variables affecting the work attitudes, workforce participation, and health and safety of older workers. A related project has evaluated the ‘work ability' construct and the efficacy of related interventions for improving the health and retention of older workers.
Most recently, Professor Bohle has begun collaboration with several colleagues on a project examining the effects of traumatic workplace death on the partners and dependents of victims. Early pilot work has been promising.
Since 2001, this research has attracted over $6.3million in grant funding from the Australian Research Council, the National Health and Medical Research Council, and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (Canada).
Professor Bohle has also jointly authored the innovative, multidisciplinary Managing Occupational Health and Safety (Palgrave Macmillan 1991, 2000, 2010).
Professor Bohle has worked at The University of Queensland, Griffith University and The University of New South Wales, where he was Head of the School of Industrial Relations and Organisational Behaviour (2000-2003) and Director of the Industrial Relations Research Centre (2000-2001). He has held visiting appointments at The University of Sheffield, The University of Wales, and The University of Connecticut.
Teaching and Service Responsibilities
I teach a broad range of general topics at undergraduate and postgraduate level, as well as teaching within my expertise in work and health.
Board Member, Working Time Society
Board Member, Scientific Committee on Shiftwork and Working Time of the International Commission on Occupational Health.
Member, Scientific Committee, 20th International Symposium on Shiftwork and Working Time, Stockholm, Sweden, 2011 (conducted under the auspices of the International Commission on Occupational Health).
Research Opportunities
Selected Publications
- Bohle, P., Pitts, C. & Quinlan, M. (2010). Time to call it quits? The safety and health of older workers, International Journal of Health Services, 40(1), 23-41.
- Bohle, P., Willaby, H., Quinlan, M. & Mc Namara, M. (in press, accepted 16 June 2010). Flexible work in call centres: Working hours, work-life conflict and health, Applied Ergonomics.
- Quinlan, M., Bohle, P. & Lamm, F. (2010). Managing occupational health and safety: A multidisciplinary approach (3rd edition), Melbourne: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Bohle, P., Cooke, T., Considine, G., Jakubauskas, M., Quinlan, M., Rafferty, M. & Ryan, R. (2009). The evolving work environment in New Zealand: Implications for occupational health and safety. Wellington: National Occupational Health and Safety Advisory Committee, NOHSAC Technical Report 10, 130pp. (ISSN 1177-2239, ISBN 978-0-478-33317-6)
- Caci, H., Adan, A., Bohle, P., Natale, V., Pornpitakpan, C. & Tilley, A. (2005). Transcultural properties of the Composite Scale of Morningness: The relevance of the morning affect factor, Chronobiology International, 22(3), 523-540.
- Quinlan, M., Mayhew, C. & Bohle, P. (2001). The global expansion of precarious employment, work disorganisation and occupational health: A review of recent research, International Journal of Health Services, 31 (2), 335-414.
- Bohle, P. & Tilley, A.J. (1993). Predicting mood change on night shift, Ergonomics, 36 (1-3), 125-134.
- Bohle, P. & Tilley, A.J. (1989). The impact of night work on psychological well-being, Ergonomics, 32 (9), 1089-1099.
Selected Grants
- 2010-15 Project: Employment precarity and proverty in Southern Ontario
Source: Social Science & Humanities Research Council of Canada, CURA Award
Contribution: Academic partner (chief investigator)
Total Value: $CAN1 000 000 (approx. $AU1,075,190.00)
- 2007-11 Project: Working longer: Policy reforms and practice innovations
Source: NHMRC/ARC Strategic Award
Contribution: Chief investigator ( with J. Piggott, P. McDonald, A. Woodland, C. Choi)
Total Value: $2 000 000
- 2005-08 Project: Redesigning work in an ageing society
Source: Australian Research Council Linkage Grant Scheme
Contribution: Chief investigator (with P. Taylor, L. Brooke, L. Rolland, M.A. Steinberg)
Total Value: $1 204 000
- 2005-09 Project: Economic, environmental and social psychological evaluation of independent senior living alternatives in Australia
Source: Australian Research Council Linkage Grant Scheme
Contribution: Chief investigator (with D. Kennedy, G. Earl, J.Piggott)
Total Value: $1 528 231
- 2002-05 Project: Enhancing the health, well-being, job satisfaction and retention of hospital-based registered and enrolled nurses on shiftwork
Source: Australian Research Council Linkage Grant Scheme
Contribution: Chief investigator (with A. Pisarski, C. Gallois, B.Watson)
Value: $240 000