Professor
Michelle Tuckey
Keynote Topic: “Beyond Risk Mitigation: Cultivating Connection to Prevent Workplace Mistreatment”
Professor Tuckey’s research advances knowledge to prevent workplace mistreatment. Despite evidence that mistreatment is systemic, strategies often focus on changing awareness and responses to hostile behaviour at an individual level rather than addressing root causes.
Collaborating with diverse organisations across multiple industry sectors, Tuckey’s innovations have uncovered systemic risks and ways to tackle them, enabling workplaces to ‘design out’ hostile behaviour and informing an award-winning prevention program reaching nearly 10,000 employees across Australia.
She collaborates with industry partners to drive impact alongside contributions to the international scholarly literature, publishing 120 significant research outputs to date.
Tuckey’s work has influenced national policy, advising agencies such as Safe Work Australia, the Australian and Queensland Human Rights Commissions, and the Australian Medical Association.
She is frequently invited to speak nationally and internationally at academic and industry conferences and regularly engages with the media to shift perspectives on workplace mistreatment.
Professor Tuckey is an Associate Editor of the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology and serves on the Editorial Boards for Journal of Occupational Health Psychology and International Journal of Stress Management.
