Professor Philip Dewe

Philip Dewe’s research interests include work stress and coping, emotions and human resource accounting. He has written widely in the area of work stress and coping, with his research particularly covering the appraisal process and its role in the coping process. More recently, he has been using sequential tree analysis to explore the patterns of coping strategies to gain a better understanding of the way in which different coping strategies are used. This type of analysis has also been extended to exploring components of appraisal and their patterning in relation to the emotional consequences of stress.

Philip is Vice-Master of Birkbeck and Professor of Organizational Behaviour in the Department of Organizational Psychology, Birkbeck, University of London. He graduated with an MSc and PhD (in Organizational Psychology) from the London School of Economics. After a period of work in commerce in New Zealand he became a Senior Research Officer in the Work Research Unit, Department of Employment (UK). In 1980 he joined Massey University in New Zealand and headed the Department of Human Resource Management until joining the Department of Organizational Psychology, Birkbeck, University of London in 2000. He is a member of the editorial board of Work & Stress and the International Journal of Stress Management and an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Heath Promotion