Contact us
- Professor Rebecca Mitchell
- Macquarie Business School
- 3 Management Drive, Macquarie University NSW 2109
- T: +61 (2) 9850 8485
- E: rebecca.mitchell@mq.edu.au
Our interdisciplinary research unit uses multi-method collaborative research to improve health and social outcomes aimed at optimising the health of people in organisations and the design and management of health and social care.
We bring together expertise in behavioural science, entrepreneurship, leadership and innovation, and social and strategic marketing to tackle global challenges, underpinned by a twin focus on scholarly excellence and industry relevance.
Our programs reflect the interdisciplinary nature of the HoWRU priorities and highlight the diversity and strength of our partnerships and research capabilities.
To learn more about our researchers and HoWRU, download our overview or contact Professor Rebecca Mitchell, at rebecca.mitchell@mq.edu.au.
This research program focuses on a health-based model of organizational and employee factors associated with enhanced engagement and productivity, coping and resilience, and quality relationships at work.
Organisations have the capacity to either support or hinder employee health and wellbeing through the systems, structure and policies they create, and we are committed to understanding the work-related factors that strengthen people’s capacity to deal with challenges and trauma.
We further explore issues of social justice at work and their implications for wellbeing and sustainability. This includes an expertise in investigating the impacts of law and regulation pertaining to health at work, such as health and safety law and workers' compensation law.
Health and social care, and the professionals who work within these spheres, face significant challenges related to changing technologies, social and economics demands, as well as profession-related concerns that potentially impact workplace, employee and patient outcomes.
This research program draws on human resource management, leadership, change management and organisational behaviour disciplines to investigate the workplace factors that contribute to effective teamwork, leadership and organisational development in health, aged and social care organisations.
Our research in this area investigates the strategy, design, and innovation of health ecosystems and organizations. We focus on innovation in healthcare, including open innovation and entrepreneurship.
This program also examines the wellbeing effects of technology on employees and explores how technology is shaping work.
This research program applies marketing theory to healthcare and, for example, seeks to identify those mechanisms that facilitate and inhibit consumers' adoption and utilisation of health services.
We also focus on developing effective health communications to promote sustainable behaviour change. An emerging theme in this program explores the transformative aspects of service on the health sector and seeks to examine the role of disruptive technologies in shaping and changing the way service is delivered and experienced in health and social care.