Events JCU Success Workshop (Motivating Yourself and Others by Associate Professor Jonathan E. Ramsay)

JCU Events

Wed, 1 Sep 2021

JCU Success Workshop (Motivating Yourself and Others by Associate Professor Jonathan E. Ramsay)


When: 1 September 2021, 3pm to 5pm
Location:Online Webinar

Overview

It can be a challenge to stay motivated in academic and professional life. As you progress in your career, this challenges may be extended to motivating others in a formal or informal leadership role. This seminar uses psychological theories to reveal the secret methods of motivating yourself and others.

Speaker Profile

Dr. Jonathan Edward Ramsay
Academic Head, Social and Health Science


Originally from the United Kingdom, Dr Jonathan Ramsay came to Asia in 2009 and is now a Senior Lecturer of Psychology and Head of Academic Group at James Cook University, Singapore. He received a PhD in psychology from Nanyang Technological University in 2014, and a BA in psychology and physiology from the University of Oxford in 2005. Prior to joining JCU he was a Lecturer and then a Senior Lecturer at the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS).


His research interests span areas of personality and social psychology, with a particular emphasis on the psychology of religion (including the consequences of religious belief and non-belief) and the relationships between personality, attitudes, and well-being. His current research projects examine the way religious individuals explain daily events, as well as individual differences in the relationship between subjective authenticity and well-being.

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