CANCELLED: EMPOWER: Resilience in the workplace Christina van der Feltz-Cornelis
Event details
In today’s world, resilience seems more important than ever. But what exactly constitutes resilience and what can an individual do, given the limitations imposed by the societal context?
Mental health expert Christina van der Feltz-Cornelis of the University of York explores resilience in the workplace based on the international EMPOWER project. A collaboration between researchers from nine different countries - the UK, Australia, Belgium, Finland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and Switzerland – the project aims to reduce work stress.
Join Christina, the UK lead for EMPOWER, and discover what the power of individual and team resilience in the workplace can be.
About the speaker
Professor Christina van der Feltz-Cornelis, is a psychiatrist-psychotherapist and epidemiologist, who joined the University of York, UK, in 2018 with a Chair of Psychiatry and Epidemiology. She moved to York from the Netherlands, where she held an endowed chair at Tilburg University as Professor of Social Psychiatry from 2010-2019. She is a member of the Mental Health and Addictions Research Group (MHARG) at the University of York’s Department of Health Sciences, and holds a joint appointment with the Hull York Medical School (HYMS). She registered as a psychiatrist with full licence to practice in the UK and as an honorary consultant psychiatrist with Tees Esk and Wear Valley (TEWV) NHS Trust where she provides a specialist assessment service and treatment for people with complex combined somatic and psychiatric conditions.