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About Me

I am a 3rd year Psychology student at the University of Canberra. This semester I am studying Social Psychology & Motivation and Emotion

I have lived in Canberra all my life, and have two teenage children. I work for a Publicly Funded Research Organisation as a Director of Operations, providing Workforce, Budget, Communication and Business Development capability, as well as Safety, Security and Infrastructure compliance and risk management advice. For me the work is all around the human element of organisational behaviour, as well as general organisational psychology. I am challenged daily with shaping a culture within my division and more broadly the research organisation, where we have the right people with the right skills in the right jobs; where people work well together respectfully, safely (physical and mental), securely; where the sharing of knowledge and information is part of normal practice; and where people feel confident to take a small level of risk to provide their best. To that end, the Psychology degree is providing me with knowledge and tools to harness, and hopefully make a difference.

My 2019 Book Chapter

My contribution to the 2019 Motivation and Emotion Book is a chapter on Organisational Change Motivation. I am interested in the underlying motivations of those who are willing to change and those who resist it, and set myself a challenge to discover if there are ways leaders like myself and my colleagues can harness the knowledge of motivation to be able to bring all our staff along as we constantly evolve. Further, I chose this topic as it will be useful for the project I am just about to start at work where we are undertaking some cultural renewal, and therefore the research will be useful.

Social Contributions

Topic Development Contributions

1. Made a suggestion on Imagery in Sport chapter
2. Made a suggestion for Doomsday Prepping Motivation chapter and I forgot to sign it so I edited the comment to insert the signature

Book Chapter Contributions

1. Spent some time sharing some of my research findings on self-determination theory and autonomy with Flexible work arrangements and and work motivation chapter and also shared an interesting article with mentioned flexible working arrangements as a critical concept in modern workplaces (and as I hadn't logged in when I made the contribution I had to go back and insert my user signature).
2. Being interested in education, and having come across creativity in my research into workplace autonomy, I skimmed and commented on Autonomy support and educational motivation in primary school chapter, in case they had not yet considered creativity and how it supports autonomy. I suspect creativity would be quite well received in primary school education. I also suggested a formatting change for better flow of the SDT concepts outlined, however I didn't do the editing for them in case they were already working on reformatting around all their other research.
3. With rewards being a component of my research, I made a suggestion on the Hidden Costs of Rewards chapter regarding the work of Dan Ariely, Behavioural Economist, who has some fascinating research regarding the application of rewards among a huge body of behavioural research. I particularly enjoyed and learnt a lot from his 2016 Tedx presentation on Motivation at Work and the case of Legos, which I thought would be perfect for their chapter, if only to get some other ideas about rewards and motivation.
4. Gian requested some feedback about the Growth mindset development chapter, and I made a number of suggestions in the discussion section of the chapter about the written expression, particularly the use of unnecessary words. I also commented regarding a potential repetition which popped out at me, and suggested the paragraph be reworded.

Contributions to CANVAS Discussion Board

1. I reminded Madeline that while the chapter was due at 9am Monday, she should submit her link now, and can continue to edit. This was in the discussion 'Book chapter due time'
2. I replied to Gian's request for feedback (see above book chapter contribution) and suggested the How to Kill a Word link to help with written expression and the word limit.

Hobbies

• Cycling
• Barracking for my AFL team GWS Giants
• Watching crime TV shows, such as Mindhunter, The Wire, and Breaking Bad
• Gardening
• Practicing Mindfulness, with a particular interest in the Australian not-for-profit Smiling Mind