B Arts, M Science, PhD

Associate Professor, School of Psychology

Contact details for Associate Professor Paula Brough

Research expertise

• Associate Professor Brough is an Industrial and Organisational Psychologist specialising in occupational stress and psychological health.
• Research areas include: occupational stress, coping, the psychological health of high-risk workers (e.g., emergency service workers, correctional workers), work-life balance (assessing how best to manage work and non-work demands for both individual workers and their employers), and the effective measurement of psychological constructs.
• Associate Brough has published over 40 journal articles and book chapters based on her research, is the Chief Investigator on numerous local, national and international research grants, and supervises both post-graduate and post-doctoral researchers.
• Professional responsibilities include: Editorial Board memberships, reviewer for psychology academic journals, industry adviser, and assessor for both University and national rersearch grants.

Current teaching areas

• Associate Professor Brough teaches Industrial and Organisational Psychology at both the under-graduate and post-graduate levels.
• This includes convening the undergraduate Occupational Psychology course and several courses in the postgraduate Organisational Psychology Program including Work, Stress and Health and Advanced Research methods.
• Associate Professor Brough normally supervises several Honours, Masters and PhD research students within her research area each year and has won University for the high quality of her research supervision.

Publications

• Brough, P., Holt, J., Bauld, R., Biggs, A.,and Ryan, C. (in press). The ability of work-life balance policies to influence key social and organisational issues. Asian-Pacific Journal of Human Resource Management.
• Lapierre, L. M., Spector, P. E., Allen, T. D., Poelmans, S., Cooper, C. L., O’Driscoll, M., Sanchez, J. I., Brough, P., and Kinnunen, U. (in press). Family-supportive organization perceptions, multiple dimensions of work-family conflict, and employee satisfaction: A test of model across five samples. Journal of Vocational Behaviour.
• O’Driscoll, M., Brough, P., and Kalliath, T. (in press). Stress and coping. Chapter for C. Cartwright and C Cooper. The Oxford handbook of organizational well being. Oxford University Press.
• Spector, P. E., Allen, T. D., Poelmans, S., Lapierre, L. M., Cooper, C. L., O’Driscoll, M., Sanchez, J. I., Abarca, N., Alexandrova, M., Beham, B., Brough, P., Ferreiro, P., Fraile, G., Lu, C-Q., Lu, L., Moreno-Velazques, I., Pagon, M., Pitariu, H., Salamtov, V., Shima, S., Simoni, A. S., Siu, O. L., Widerszal-Bazyl, M. (2007). Cross-national differences in relationships of work demands, job satisfaction and turnover intentions with work-family conflict. Personnel Psychology, 60(4), 805-835.
• Brough, P., O’Driscoll, M., and Kalliath, T. (2007). Work-family conflict and facilitation: Achieving work-family balance. In A. I. Glendon, B. M. Thompson, and B. Myors (Eds.), Advances in organisational psychology (pp. 73-92). Brisbane: Australian Academic Press.
• Brough, P., and Williams, J. (2007). Managing occupational stress in a high-risk industry: Measuring the job demands of correctional officers. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 34(4), 555-567.