
Dr Joanna Butler
Senior Teaching Fellow
Work, Employment and Organisation
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Area of Expertise
- Human resource development
- Training and Development
- Employability
- Career Managment and Development
- Professional practice in welfare provision
- Coaching and personal development
- Organisational Development and Change
Prize And Awards
- Stephen Young Entrepreneurship Award
- Recipient
- 16/11/2023
- Winner of "Innovator with Future Impact" at the KE Excellence Awards
- Recipient
- 1/6/2023
Qualifications
University of Strathclyde
- PhD Work, Employment and Organisation (2020)
- MSc Occupational Psychology (2010)
- BA (Honours) Psychology (2003)
British Psychological Society (BPS)
- Awarded Associate Fellow status (2016)
- Register of Applied Psychology Practice Supervisors (RAPPS) (2015)
- Qualification in Occupational Psychology (QOP) (Stage 2) (2012)
- Assessment Test User: Occupational (Ability and Personality) (2010)
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Publications
- Disability & Inclusion Consultancy (spin-out)
- Butler Joanna, Smith Marisa, Remnant Jennifer
- (2024)
- Advancing occupational psychology in Scotland
- Butler Joanna
- 18 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.21825/ewopinpractice.90426
- Employability Assessment Tool (Spin Out) : MyEmploy
- Butler Joanna
- (2024)
- Disabled Parents Employability Support Fund Evaluation : Final Report
- Remnant Jen, Butler Joanna
- (2023)
- Understanding the skills opportunity for today and tomorrow in Glasgow : Report for Glasgow Chambers of Commerce
- , Roy Graeme, McIntyre Stuart, Findlay Patricia, Butler Joanna
- (2019)
- Catering for Scotland's Future Skills Needs : Attracting, Training and Retaining Chefs
- Anderson Pauline, Baum Tom, Bourkel Tom, Butler Joanna
- (2019)
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Teaching
I teach several areas of work and organisational psychology across professionally accredited postgraduate programmes in the Department of Work, Employment and Organisation and the MBA unit.
Topics include:
- Employee Reward
- Human Resource Development
- Managing People in Organisations
- Stress and wellbeing
- Employability
- Career Development
- Coaching and Mentoring
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Research Interests
My research interests lie in the delivery of welfare programmes, specifically personalised employability and skills provision directed at disadvantaged jobseekers.
Examples of projects include:
- social impact in Saudi Arabia;
- evlauation of employability programmes;
- inclusive recruitment for disabled people;
- skills mismatch across Glasgow’s workforce;
- monitoring and evaluation strategies;
- retention issues in social care organisations;
- attraction, retention and development of chefs in Scotland;
- distance travelled (employability) at a national disability charity.
Professional Activities
- Occupational Psychology in Scotland: Showcase
- Organiser
- 22/8/2024
- European Society for Health and Medical Sociology
- Participant
- 2/7/2024
- Retreat: Industrial/Organisational and Occupational Psychology
- Organiser
- 24/6/2024
- Scottish Union for Supported Employment Annual Conference
- Invited speaker
- 21/5/2024
- HR Network National Conference and Exhibition
- Participant
- 2024
- Inspire 100
- Speaker
- 16/11/2023
Projects
- Accessible Automation: Integrating People in Technological Advancements
- Butler, Joanna (Principal Investigator)
- Human factors around a case study at Lightweight Manufacturing Centre
- 01-Jan-2024 - 01-Jan-2024
- Cracking the Code: Can Objective Personality Tests combat Social Desirability Responding, Impression Management and Faking?
- Butler, Joanna (Principal Investigator) Scholarios, Dora (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-2025
- Opportunities and Challenges for Transforming Employability in Scotland
- Butler, Joanna (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2028
- Evaluation of Edinburgh's Disabled Parents Employability Fund
- Remnant, Jennifer (Principal Investigator) Butler, Joanna (Co-investigator)
- 19-Jan-2022 - 16-Jan-2023
- Commercialisation of an Employability Tool (MyEmploy)
- Butler, Joanna (Principal Investigator)
- The first Strathclyde Business School academic to have successfully commercialised their research into a spin out.
- 01-Jan-2022
- Train the Trainer: Disability Inclusion
- Butler, Joanna (Principal Investigator) Remnant, Jennifer (Co-investigator)
- 07-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2022
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Contact
Dr
Joanna
Butler
Senior Teaching Fellow
Work, Employment and Organisation
Email: joanna.butler@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3219