Working to keep others well- Organisational Psychology and a Phd journey
Welcome everyone to the next edition of the Pathways to Psychology blog.Today we hear from Katherine Jachens, Organisational Psychologist, Phd candidate, and workplace wellbeing Specialist. Katherine shares a valuable journey of training and working in a particular niche area of Psychology- wellbeing at work. It highlights how much we need Psychology to be widely applied and situated, and I hope Katerine's experience can inspire you to take your own next steps towards a career in Psychology. Katherine Jachens Organisational Psychologist PHd candidate and Workplace wellbeing Specialist I wanted to study Psychology because I saw it as a ‘creative science’, where many of the theories were still up for debate / discovery, and understanding why and how people think, act and feel in different ways was always fascinating to me. Having grown up in Geneva surround by the Red Cross, the UN (United Nations), The Global Fund, and other humanitarian- and international development headqua...