Health Sciences

School of Public Health

Dr Leila Karimi

Contact Details

Email: l.karimi@latrobe.edu.au
Phone: (03) 9479 3013
International: +61 3 9479 3013
Fax: (03) 9479 1783
International: +61 3 9479 1783
Office: HS1-127

Qualifications

PhD Candidate Applied Statistics, Swinburne University of Technology

PhD Industrial /Organizational Psychology, Curtin University of Technology

MSc General Psychology, Azad University

BSc Industrial /Organizational Psychology, Azad University

Interests

Dr Leila Karimi has research experience in organizational psychology and community health. Before jointing La Trobe in 2009, she held a position as a researcher at RDNS Helen Macpherson Smith Institute of Community Health, where she was extensively involved in various research projects in community health setting. In addition to teaching and research, she is studying for a second PhD in Applied Statistics at Swinburne University of Technology with a focus on comparing formative and reflective models of a work ability measurement.

• Emotional-social intelligence
• Leadership/management studies
• Counter productive behaviours
• Performance assessment
• Healthy workplace
• Work-life balance
• Job characteristics
• Stress-risk assessment
• Cross-cultural studies

Memberships

• Member of Australian Psychological Society (MAPS)
• Member of Statistical Society of Australia (SSAI)
• Member of Victorian Young Statisticians
• Honorary Research Fellow, RDNS Helen Macpherson Smith Institute of Community Health

Publications

Karimi, L & Nouri, A (2009). Do work demands-resources predict work-to-family conflict and facilitation?  Journal of Family and Economic Issues (Springer publications). 30 (2), 193-202.

Karimi, L. (2009). Do female and male employees in Iran experience similar work-family interference, job, and life satisfaction? Journal of Family Issues (Sage Publications). 30 (1), 124-142.

Karimi, L. (2008). A study of a multidimensional model of work-family conflict among Iranian employees. Community, Work, & Family. (Rutledge Publications). 11 (3), 283-296.

Conferences

Gilbreath, B. & Karimi, L. , Supervisor behaviour and employee presenteeism. Paper presented at Boundaryless careers and occupational Wellbeing. Bari, Italy, 2008.

Kapp, S., Flowers, C., Karimi, L. & Gliddon, T., Improving the care and outcomes of people receiving treatment for lower leg ulcers: A best practice odyssey at Royal District Nursing Service. Paper presented at the Australian Wound Management Association National Conference, Darwin, Australia, 2008.

Karimi, L. & Kazemi, M., The effects of job characteristics and work-family conflict on employee wellbeingOrganisational-Industrial Psychology Congress. Isfahan, Iran, 2008.

Karimi, L., Work-Family Interface. Paper presented at the 11th Denis Glencross Memorial Conference. Metro Inn. Perth, Australia, 2006.

Sharifian, F. & Karimi, L., A Comparative Exploration of the Persian and the Anglo-Australia Conceptualizations of FAMILY. Paper presented at the 9th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, 2005.