Positive Occupational Health Psychology Seminar

The 5th International Seminar on Positive Occupational Health Psychology was hosted in the DCU Business School by, Sarah-Jane Cullinane and Dr. Janine Bosak on the 7th and 8th of June.

The two day seminar brought together PhD students and junior researchers working in the field of positive occupational health psychology to discuss the most recent theoretical and empirical advances in the field and to invite feedback on their own research from peers and leading experts in the area.

Main themes covered over the two days were: Work engagement, theoretical frameworks, (e.g, jobs demands-resources theory), positive interventions at work, healthy and resilient organisations, critical views on the development of positive psychology, and occupational health psychology methodological research.   

Photo: Presentation to the keynote speakers at the closing of the seminar (L to R) Professor Arnold Bakker, (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Dr. Janine Bosak (DCU), Professor Evangelia Demerouti (University of Technology Eindhoven), Sarah-Jane Cullinane (DCU) and Professor Wilmar Schaufeli (Utrecht University)