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Ali Afsharian

Justice & Society · University of South Australia

https://researchid.co/ali.afsharian
@unisa.edu.au
22Scopus Publications

Research Interests

Organisational and clinical psychology, Psychosocial Safety Climate and the climate strength Managerial policies and plans to design working environments, Psychosocial health risk factors at work and MSDs, PSC and biomarkers (HRV, BP, sleep data) of workplace...

Biography

Dr Ali Afsharian is a highly qualified clinical psychologist with Bachelor's and Master's degrees from USWR, Iran, and a PhD from UniSA, Australia. His research focuses on Psychosocial Safety Climate (PSC) from composition and dispersion perspectives, with the aim of identifying and preventing psychosocial risk factors at national and international levels in the workplace. He has compared PSC in different cultural contexts, particularly in Australian and Iranian workplaces. Dr Afsharian is currently an academic researcher at the Centre for Workplace Excellence at UniSA, where he continues to pursue his research interests in organisational and clinical psychology, psychosocial safety climate, psychosocial risk factors, and employees' perception of managerial policies. He is also skilled in developing management plans to create a healthy working environment, addressing psychosocial health issues and risk factors at work.

Education

PhD in Work and Organisational Psychology UniSA MA in Clinical Psychology USWR, Tehran, Iran BA in Psychology FUM, Mashhad, Iran

Recent Scopus Publications

  1. Investigating the Impact of Prolonged Exposure to Low Psychosocial Safety Climate on Serious Depressive Symptoms
    Safety and Health at Work, 2025
  2. Australia's national laws for worker psychological health: a policy evaluation and psychosocial safety climate analysis
    Safety Science, 2025
  3. A ‘living intervention’: Evaluating a real-time feedback system to help teams co-create psychosocial safety climate
    Safety Science, 2025
  4. The Generality of Psychosocial Safety Climate Theory—A Fundamental Element for Global Worker Well-Being: Evidence From Four Nations
    Stress and Health, 2025
  5. Longitudinal investigation of restructuring, psychosocial safety climate and burnout in Australian universities during COVID-19 2020–2022
    Journal of Industrial Relations, 2025

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