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Dr Lyndall Strazdins BFA (Tasmania), Master Clin. Psych, PhD (ANU) Current Position: Research Fellow Contact Details: (Building 62, ANU map) National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health The Australian National University Canberra, ACT, 0200 Australia T: +61 2 6125 2837 F: +61 2 6125 0740 E: lyndall.strazdins@anu.edu.au

Research Interests

• Work, family and well-being of parents and children
• Quality of work and health
• Social environments, mental and physical health: especially the importance of care and supportive relationships (at work and at home).
• Linkages between macro-economic contexts such as globalization and the 24-hour economy, to changes in the quality of work and family life - the implications for parent and child well-being and for a sustainable society.
• Interpersonal interactions, support giving and emotional contagion that influence effective management and service delivery in the workplace, and close and cohesive relationships in families.

NCEPH and Families Australia hosted the first National Family Wellbeing Symposium in June this year. The focus was on the meaning and measurement of family wellbeing, to develop a framework for policy and research.

Selected Recent Publications

Strazdins L, Broom DH, Meyerkort S, Warren B. Voting with their feet? Parent employment in Australian industry, 1981-2001. Australian Bulletin of Labour, 2006; 32 (4), 381-400.

Broom DH, D'Souza RM, Strazdins L , Butterworth P, Rodgers B. The lesser evil: bad jobs or unemployment? A study of mid-aged Australians. Social Science & Medicine, 2006; 63, (3), 575-586.

D'Souza RM, Strazdins L, Broom DH, Rodgers B, Berry HL. Work demands, job insecurity and sickness absence from work. How productive is the new, flexible labour force? Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health , 2006; 30,  (3)    205-212.

Strazdins L, Clements M., Korda RJ, Broom DH, D'Souza RM. Unsociable work? Nonstandard work schedules, family relationships and children's well-being. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 2006; 68 (2), 394-410.

Strazdins L, Meyerkort S, Brent V, D'Souza RM, Broom DH, Kyd J. Impact of saliva collection methods on sIgA and cortisol assays and acceptability to participants. Brief report. Journal of Immunological Methods, 2005; 307, (1-2), 167-171.

Strazdins L , D'Souza RM, Lim L-Y, Broom DH, Rogers B. Job strain, job insecurity and health: rethinking the relationship. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 2004; 9 (4), 296-321.

Strazdins, L Korda RJ, Lim LL-Y, Broom DH, D'Souza RM. Around-the-clock: parent non-standard work times and children's wellbeing in a 24-hour economy. Social Science and Medicine, 2004; 59 , 1517-1527.

Strazdins L, Broom DH . Acts of love (and work): Gender imbalance in emotional work and women's psychological distress. Journal of Family Issues, 2004; 25 (3), 356-378.

Strazdins L , Bammer G . Women, work and musculoskeletal health . Social Science and Medicine, 2004; 58, 6 997-1005.

D'Souza RM, Strazdins L , Lim L-Y, Broom DH, Rogers B. Work and health in contemporary society: demands, control and insecurity. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2003; 57, 849-854.

Strazdins L . Emotional work and emotional contagion. In N Ashkanasky, W Zerbe and C Hartel (Eds), Managing emotions in the workplace, (pp232-250). 2002; New York ; ME Sharpe.