Making Positive Psychology Work Podcast

Dr. Peggy Kern is an associate professor at the Centre for Positive Psychology at the University of Melbourne’s graduate school of education. Peggy’s research is collaborative in nature and draws on a variety of methodologies to examine questions around who thrives in life and why. Including understanding and measuring healthy functioning, identifying individual and social factors impacting life trajectories and systems informed approaches to wellbeing. She’s published three books and over 85 peer-reviewed articles and chapters. In this week’s podcast, we explore the impact COVID-19 and the economic downturn is having on workers’ wellbeing and performance, and what leaders and workplaces can be doing to support them. Connect with Peggy Kern: The Wellbeing Lab You’ll Learn: [02:45] - Peggy shares her latest research findings on how workplaces can help workers to care for their wellbeing. [11:03] - Peggy explains what research over the last two weeks has found about the impact of COVID-19 and the sudden econ