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11/30/2022 | Campus-Meldung

Humboldt Foundation Science Award for Prof. Dr. Kevin Daniels

Prof. Dr. Kevin Daniels, University of East Angelia, England, has been awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's Humboldt Research Award at the suggestion of Sandra Ohly, University of Kassel. This science award recognizes internationally leading scientists from all disciplines from abroad for their overall work to date and comes with prize money of 60,000 euros.

The photo shows Prof. Dr. Kevin Daniels
Prof. Dr. Kevin Daniels. Photo: University of Kassel

Kevin Daniels is Professor of Organizational Behavior at Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia, UK. He is currently spending his research sabbatical in the Department of Business Psychology, among other departments. Daniels.is internationally known for his research on health and work-related well-being. Among other things, he describes which facets of work-related well-being need to be distinguished, and which factors in the work context lead to work-related well-being (e.g., work design, leadership, workload). His reasoning that work design must take into account how work characteristics are "enacted," or shaped, on a daily basis has been a contributing factor in increasing the study of well-being dynamics in the international research community in recent decades.

The aim of his work is to develop better practices and strategies to promote health, well-being and occupational safety, and he is influencing even the highest political levels, such as the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs in the United Kingdom. As part of the What Works Centre for Wellbeing, he has been looking at the evidence of interventions to improve wellbeing. The center is one of nine evidence-based centers in the What Works network funded by the ESRC (UK's Economic and Social Research Council). Their aim is to provide the best possible evidence to support informed policy decisions  and is aimed at governments and non-governmental organizations. He led the program on Evidence on Work and Learning and contributed to other projects leading to crime reduction, social service improvement, and university education. The findings of the What Works Centre for Wellbeing have inspired diverse changes in various government agencies such as the National Health Service, the British police, and the Ministry of Defense.

In addition to his own research, Kevin Daniels served as editor of the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology and associate editor of Human Relations, British Journal of Management, and Journal of Occupational and Organisational Psychology, as well as serving on the advisory boards of several other journals.

Contact:
Prof. Dr. Sandra Ohly
Department of Business Psychology
Tel: 0561/804-3162
E-mail: ohly[at]uni-kassel.de