Dr Dianne Boxall
Lecturer
BBSc (Hons) 1st Class, La Trobe University, 1991
PhD, La Trobe University, 2001
Dianne Boxall
Bio
After an earlier career in business and marketing, Dianne completed the Bachelor of Behavioural Science program at La Trobe University in Melbourne. During the latter part of her studies she worked as a research assistant in the Brain Behaviour Research Institute, where she investigated and consulted on the effects of different shiftwork rosters. Dianne did her honours research on the effects of sleep deprivation in shift workers. Her doctoral research focused on how people cope with a threat to job security. This was adapted from studies of coping behaviours associated with other stressful life events such as serious medical illnesses.
Dianne came to Albury-Wodonga in 1993 to help establish the psychology program at the new regional campus of La Trobe University. She moved across the river to CSU Albury in October 2005. Dianne teaches introductory psychology in the allied health programs at the Albury campus, as well as health psychology to distance education students from broad range of disciplines. Her specific research interests and post-graduate supervision topics focus on health, social, and industrial/organisational psychology with a particular emphasis on rural and regional applications.
Dianne is a “tree-changer” who lives out of town on a small farm between Wodonga and Yackandandah. Her husband raises beef cattle and they have a young, but productive, olive grove.
Teaching
- Foundations of Psychology
- Psychology for Health and Human Services
- Psychology of Health and Illness
Research
- The nature and meaning of work and non-work
- Work-life balance and psychological health
- Promoting psychological well-being in everyday day
- Living and working in rural and regional areas: “Downshifting”, “Sea-change” & “Tree-change”
- Recruiting and retaining skilled workers in rural and regional areas
- Future intentions and expectations of regional secondary and tertiary students
Recent publications
Membership of professional associations and groups
- Society of Australasian Social Psychologists (SASP)
- Australian Industry Group (Albury-Wodonga Region)
- Society for the Provision of Education in Rural Australia (SPERA)
