Dr Liz Jones

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B Arts, PhD

Deputy Head of School, School of Psychology

Liz Jones is a social / organisational psychologist

Key research interests are inter-group and health communication
Currently researching communication between health practitioners and clients, and clinical handovers and multidisciplinary communication in health settings.
In addition, Dr Jones has researched communication during organisational change.
Stress and adjustment during transition. Her current research project focuses on adjustment by parents to the birth of a premature infant. This research is being used by hospitals in discharge planning.

Liz Jones is currently Deputy Head of School and thus is responsible for day-to-day administration of psychology at the Mt Gravatt campus, including the development and evaluation of all programs offered at that campus.
Teaches interpersonal skills, social psychology, organisational change and human resource development. Dr Jones teaches across undergraduate psychology and postgraduate organisational psychology programs

Jones, E., Watson, B., Gardner, J. and Gallois, C. (2004). Organizational Communication: where do we think we are going? Journal of Communication, 54, 722-750.
Paulsen, N., Graham, P., Jones, L., Callan, V., and Gallois, C. (2005). Organizations as intergroup contexts: Communication, discourse and identification. In J. Harwood and H. Giles (Eds), Intergroup communication: Multiple perspectives. New York: Peter Lang.
Martin, A., Jones, E., and Callan, V.J. (2005). The Role of Psychological Climate in Facilitating Employee Adjustment During Organizational Change. European Journal of Work and Organisational Psychology, 14 (3), 263-289.
Grice, T., Gallois, C., Jones, E., Paulsen, N., and Callan, V. (2006). We do it but they don't: Multiple categorizations and organizational communication. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 34, (4), 331-348.
Jones, E., Rowe, J. and Woodhouse, D. (2007). Effective nurse parent communication: A study of parents? perceptions in the NICU environment. Patient Education and Counseling, 69, 206-212.