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individual differences." Paper presented
at a symposium `Health promotion at the
worksite', 4th European Health Psychology Conference, Oxford. June 1990
"Tests and Examiners: A case
study of the effects of workload reduction"
Paper presented at the
American Psychological Society / National Institute for Occupational Safety
and Health Conference on "Work and Well-being; An Agenda for the
90's" Washington, DC. November 1990
"Stress and workload: A field
experiment." Paper presented at the BPS Annual Conference,
Bournemouth International Centre. April 1991.
"Personality, environment, and
well-being." Paper presented at the European Space Agency `Space
Psychology Workshop', Villefranche, France. March 1991.
"Personality and coping as
moderator variables". Invited contribution to a conference on `A
healthier work environment: Basic concepts and methods of measurement',
Karolinska Institute, Stockholm. May 1991
"Personality and work
stress". Paper presented at a symposium to mark the
retirement of D. E. Broadbent, Department of Experimental Psychology,
University of Oxford. September 1991.
"Work re-organisation and the
introduction of computer-based systems in the Police Force; Psychosocial
aspects". Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Association
of Local Authority Medical Officers, Oxford. March 1992.
"Mental health in the oil
industry: A comparison of onshore and offshore employees". Paper
presented at a conference on `Social, Psychosocial and Cultural Aspects of
Health and Safety in the Offshore Oil Industry'. St. John's, Newfoundland.
June 1992.
"Work and well-being among oil
industry employees". Contribution to symposium on `Health Promotion
at the Worksite', International Congress of Psychology, Brussels, Belgium.
July 1992.
"Individual differences and work
stress" . Contribution to a symposium on "Psychosocial concepts
in cardiovascular epidemiology". National Institute for Psychosocial
Factors and Health, Stockholm, Sweden. May 1993.
"Age, Type A, and well-being
among North Sea oil employees"
Contribution to a symposium on
'Worksite health psychology', European Congress of Psychology, Tampere,
Finland. July 1993.
"Operator alertness and offshore
shift schedules" Contribution to a symposium "Working on
offshore oil installations: A psychological perspective". 23rd
International Congress of Applied Psychology, Madrid, 17-22 July 1994.
"Psychosocial predictors of
absence from work: Two prospective studies" Contribution to a
symposium "Worksite health promotion". 23rd International Congress
of Applied Psychology, Madrid, 17-22 July 1994.
"Work, stress and health"
Invited
presentation at the Galton Institute symposium: "Stress: From
evolutionary change to biosocial consequences". London, 16-17 September,
1994.
"Work, stress and individual
differences". Invited presentation at ‘Jornadas Internacionales
sobre Psicologia Clinica y Salud‘ "Estres Laboral y Salud"
(Occupational Stress and Health) held at the University of Murcia, Spain.
Murcia, 14-17 November, 1994.
"Stress, health and the offshore
work environment" Presentation to HSE/UKOOA conference
"Occupational Health Offshore" Aberdeen, 27-29 March, 1996.
"Workload, perceived job demand,
and anxiety: Findings from three longitudinal studies"
British
Psychological Society Annual conference, Edinburgh. April 1997.
"Lifestyle, work, and individual
factors as predictors of psychosomatic complaints among offshore
employees". Paper presented at 14th World Congress on
Psychosomatic Medicine, Cairns, Australia, 27-28 August 1997.
"Affective reactions to job demand and discretion
in daily work." International Work Psychology Conference, University
of Sheffield, UK, Institute of Work Psychology. July 1998. (Sparkes,
T. J. & Parkes, K. R.).
"Individual and Organizational
Predictors of Job Insecurity and Anxiety in the Oil Industry."
International
Commission of Occupational Health conference, "Psychosocial factors at
work". Copenhagen, Denmark, 24-26 August 1998.
"Stress management interventions
in organizations". Invited presentation at XI Jornadas
Internacionales sobre Psicologia Clinica y salud, "Empleo, Estrés y
Salud" (Employment, Stress and Health) held at the University of Murcia,
Spain. 16-19 November, 1998.
"How can theory, methodology,
and practice be integrated to improve interventions?"
Contribution
to ESRC Seminar "New approaches to understanding work and well-being:
Implications for research and practice". Clore Management Centre,
Birkbeck College, London, 21 September 1999.
"Work stress in health-care
organizations: Symptoms, causes, and interventions" Keynote address
to VIth Conference on ‘Organizational Psychology and Health Care, Ghent,
Belgium, 7-9 October 1999.
"Sleep, mood and performance in
relation to offshore shift patterns". Presentation to the Institute of
Petroleum, Workshop on Fatigue, 21 October 1999.
"The
collaborative practice intervention: Training and outcome review". Invited contribution to the
‘Euricus II’ symposium, University Hospital, Groningen, Netherlands. 3-4
March, 2000.
"Job
perceptions, personality traits, and affective well-being" . Paper presented to symposium on ‘Personality
and work stress: Differential responses to change and context’. British
Psychological Society Annual conference, Winchester, April 13-16 2000.
"Stress,
health and organizational change". Keynote address to European Health Psychology Conference,
Leiden, The Netherlands, August 2000.
"Personality,
smoking, and age as interactive predictors of body mass index". Poster presentation.
(Parkes, K. R. & Carnell, S.C.) European Health Psychology Conference, St.
Andrews, Scotland, September 2001.
"Perceived
causes of musculoskeletal disorders in an employed sample".
Poster presentation.
(Parkes, K. R., Farmer, E. & Carnell, S.C.) European Health Psychology Conference,
Lisbon, Portugal, September 2002.
"Organizational interventions to
reduce work stress". Presentation to a workshop on ‘Work Stress’.
British Heart Foundation, London, June 2003.
"Predictors of change in self-rated
health in a 'healthy worker' group: A longitudinal study".
Poster presentation (Parkes, K. R., Farmer, E., & Carnell, S.). BPS
Health Psychology Conference, Edinburgh, September, 2004.
"Psychosocial aspects of work in remote
environments". Invited presentation to the 7th Alps-Adria Conference
on Psychology, Zadar, Croatia, 2-4 June 2005.
"Musculo-skeletal disorders among North Sea
personnel: Work environment perceptions, mental health and individual
characteristics as predictors" Paper presented to the European
Health Psychology Conference, Galway, Ireland. September 2005.
"Human factors, health and safety in the offshore
oil/gas industry: A view from the North Sea". Paper presented to National
Offshore Petroleum Safety Authority, Perth, Western Australia, 11 November
2005.
"Extended work periods and shift work offshore:
Current knowledge and research needs" Paper presented to a conference on
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"Mood and performance
changes during 12-hr day shifts over a two-week offshore tour"
Contribution to a symposium presented at the International Congress of
Psychology, Berlin, 21-25 July 2008.