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Dr Terence Chia

Adjunct Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Email: t.chia@ecu.edu.au
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1364-6658

Dr Terence Chia is an early career academic in Management at the School of Business and Law.

Key Research Areas

  • Leadership
  • Team dynamics
  • Inclusion and diversity

Biography

Terence received his PhD in Management at UWA and he is passionate about research on topics such as leadership, culture, and organisation context, and investigates how these variables can influence employee wellbeing and team performance.

Terence also graduated with a Master of Psychology (Industrial and Organisational Psychology) with Distinction at UWA and is a registered Psychologist. He adopts the identity of a Scientist-Practitioner in his engagements with industry. Integrating science and practice, Terence worked as an Organisational Development Specialist at various not-for-profit organisations in Perth metropolitan, state government health care organisations, and consulted to a mining company where he reviewed existing leadership frameworks and provided recommendations on how they can build a strong inclusive leadership capability at all levels of the organisation.

Prior to his PhD, Terence had six years of HR experience having worked across different HR functions (Organisational Development, Diversity and Inclusion, Employee Relations, Employment and Recruitment, and HR Systems).

Awards and recognition
  • 2017 – 2020 Research Training Program

ECU Research Themes

Theme Two: Society and Culture; Diverse, equitable, informed and productive communities, schools and workplaces; Individual, economic, organisational, political and social transformation

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Western Australia, 2021.

Research Outputs

2023

Book Chapters

  • Chia, T., Timming, AR. (2023). Tattoos and the Social Psychology of Stigma: Implications for Career Development. The Emerald Handbook of Appearance in the Workplace (331-342). Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80071-174-720230020.
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