Professor Richard Heron Joins Advisory Board
Richard Heron, Vice President Health, BP International, has recently been appointed to a Special Chair in International Business & Health in the Institute. He now joins the Advisory Board.
The Advisory Board
The Institute’s Advisory Board is made up of its Special professors and members of its Executive Committee. The Chair of the Advisory Board is Professor Dave Bartram. The other members in their roles as Special Professors are: Professor Sayeed Khan, Professor John Richards, Professor Gerald Zwetsloot and now Professor Richard Heron. The members of Executive, who attend, are currently Professor Tom Cox, Dr Neil Coulson, Professor Amanda Griffiths and Dr Sara Cox. The Advisory Board meets twice a year.
Professor Dave Bartram (Chair)
Dave Bartram is our Special Professor of Occupational Assessment and Testing and is Chair of the Institute’s Advisory Board. He is Research Director for the SHL Group Ltd. Prior to joining SHL, he was Dean of the Faculty of Science and the Environment, and Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Hull. He is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist, Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS), and a Fellow of the Ergonomics Society. He is currently Chair of the BPS Steering Committee on Test Standards and Chair of the European Federation of Psychologists Association’s (EFPA) Standing Committee on Tests and Testing. He is also President of the International Association of Applied Psychology’s Division 2 (Measurement and Assessment).
Dave is a Past-President and a Council member of the International Test Commission (ITC), on whose behalf he led the development of the International Guidelines for Test Use. More recently he has been working with Iain Coyne on the development of the ITC Guidelines for Computer-based and Internet Delivered Testing. He is currently a member of the ITC working group on the revision of guidelines for the translation and adaptation of tests.
Dave is the author of several hundred scientific journal articles, papers in conference proceedings, books and book chapters in a range of areas relating to occupational assessment, especially in relation to computer-based testing. His current research interests are in the areas of competency modeling and the relationships between job competencies and psychological attributes. He has collaborated with researchers in the Institute on a number of projects including one on the measurement of voluntary work behaviour. He is currently leading research within SHL in the area of measuring P-J and P-E fit. He has been an invited speaker at many national and international conferences and is a reviewer for six international journals. In 2004, he received the award for Distinguished Contribution to Professional Psychology from the BPS.
Professor Gerard Zwetsloot
Gerard Zwetsloot is our Special Professor of Occupational Health & Safety Management and a member of the Institute’s Advisory Board. He is Senior Researcher and Consultant at TNO Quality of Life – Work and Employment. After a period as a professor at the Centre for Sustainability and Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, he was awarded his Special Professorship in the Institute.
Gerard Zwetsloot holds a Masters in Chemistry and obtained his PhD in Social Science in 1994 for his thesis “Joint Management of Working Conditions, Environment and Quality; in Search of Synergy and Organizational Learning.” This thesis was nominated by the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) for their annual award in recognition of an outstanding thesis on Total Quality Management.
His research and consultancy is focused on complex management issues relating to health and safety at work (OHS), as well as business excellence and corporate social responsibility. He is also interested in underlying organisational processes, especially organisational learning and in interventions in company culture. Gerard approaches OHS management from a business perspective. Moreover, he regards practical and user friendly approaches as more interesting than merely theoretical approaches. He has developed many user friendly tools and methodologies for practical OHS management. Gerard worked with the Institute in the PRIMAT project and is also a Board Member of follow-up Framework VI project PRIMA-EF (Psycho-social Risk Management – European Framework).
