Fehmidah Munir BSc(Sheffield Hallam), PhD(Nottingham)
Senior Lecturer
Contact details
Room: U.2.17
Phone: +44 (0)1509 228228
Fax: +44 (0)1509 223940
Email: F.Munir@lboro.ac.uk
Background
Undergraduate degree in Psychology (Sheffiled Hallam), Ph.D. in Neuropsychology (Nottingham), Lecturer in Health Psychology (IWHO, Nottingham). Lecturer at Loughborough since 2005.
Research Interests
Understanding and managing ill-health at work; common health conditions at work (mental and physical); design and management of work to enhance occupational health and well-being; stress management interventions and evaluation; understanding health behaviours at work; effects of leadership on health and well-being; and the influence of individual and organisational factors on presenteeism, sickness absence, return-to-work and their related outcomes.
Current research
Managing stress, health and well-being at work
Developing line managers' competencies in return to work management (see http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/pss01bh )
Role of depression following return to work (see http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/publications/?entryid5=67533)
Health behaviours of chronically ill workers
Cancer treatment, well-being, work performance
Selected publications
Munir, F., Burr, H., Hansen J.V., Rugulies, R., & Nielsen K. (2011). Do positive work factors protect against 2-year incidence of long-term sickness absence among employee with and those without depressive symtpoms? A prospective study. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 70, 3-9
Yarker, J., Munir F., Bains, M., Kalawksy K., Haslam C. (2010). The role of communication and support in return to work following cancer-related absence. Psycho-oncology, 19: 1078-1085.
Sallis A., Birkin R, & Munir F. (2010). Working towards a ‘fit note’: an experimental vignette survey of GPs. British Journal of General Practice, 60, 245-250
Munir, F., & Nielsen K (2010). Transformational leadership and depressive symptoms. Journal of Affective Disorders, 120, 235-239.
Munir, F., Yarker, J., Randall, R., & Nielsen, K. (2009) The influence of employer support on employee management of chronic health conditions at work. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, 19, 333-344.
Munir, F., Yarker J., & Haslam C. (2008). Sickness absence management: encouraging attendance or risk-taking presenteeism in employees with chronic illness?. Disability and Rehabilitation, 30, 1461-1472. ISSN: 0963-8288
You can view a fuller publications list on the University Publications Database.
External Activities
- Journal Referee
- Journal of Occupational Environmental Medicine
- Supportive Care in Cancer
- Learned Societies and Professional Affiliations
- British Psychological Society, Division of Health Psychology (BPS)
- Association for Psychological Science (APS)
- International Chronic Illness Research Network
- Standing Conference Committee (BPS
- Midlands Health Psychology Network Committee
- Invited Lecture / Keynotes
- 2006: Invited speaker by The Migraine Trust, for IPC Media, UK.
- Collaborative Research
- Ongoing collaborations with Dr J. Yarker, Goldsmiths, University of London; Dr H. Khan, Institute of Ageing, Oxford University.