Teresa D'Oliveira

Professor Teresa D'Oliveira

Professor of Psychology and Honorary and Visiting Professor

School of Psychology and Life Sciences and Associates (KMMS)

I joined CCCU in 2023 as a Professor of Psychology.

I am an Organisational Psychologist and an expert on the impact of work and working conditions on health, wellbeing, and performance. My work adopts a broader view of human behaviour at work and considers a combination of physiological, behavioural and performance markers to workplace phenomena. Finally, I have extensive experience in naturalistic settings and in the involvement of individuals with lived experience in the design, implementation, and dissemination of research.

My most recent work highlights the impacts of working time arrangements (work schedules and shiftwork) on sleep and circadian health in different industries; exposure to nonstandard schedules and shiftwork are described as human-made disturbances to circadian health that are associated with adverse health consequences and performance impairments.

I am also interested in integrative approaches to behaviour that consider the blurred frontiers between work and nonwork domains as critical for work-life balance and health.