Rate My Professor Graeme Ditchburn

Graeme Ditchburn is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology at Murdoch University, serving as Academic Chair of the Organisational Psychology program. He earned his PhD from Birkbeck College, University of London, and holds a Master's degree in Occupational and Organisational Psychology. Prior to joining Murdoch University in 2008, he worked as European Research Director and served as an associate lecturer in occupational and organisational psychology at Birkbeck College from 2001. His academic career focuses on bridging psychological research with practical applications in workplace settings and health outcomes.

Ditchburn's research specializations encompass organisational psychology, including employee engagement and performance, organisational culture and values, perfectionism, chronic pain invalidation, the health and well-being of fly-in fly-out (FIFO) workers, and attitudes toward fatness and weight stigma. He has authored or co-authored numerous peer-reviewed publications that have advanced understanding in these areas. Notable works include 'Perfectionism, self-compassion, and general self-efficacy between those with and without chronic pain' (2025, with Melinda Nicola, Helen Correia, and Peter Drummond); 'Workplace pressure, employee stress, mental well-being and resilience in response to COVID-19 in Singapore' (2023, with Rachel E. Koh); 'Defining pain-validation: The importance of validation in reducing the stresses of chronic pain' (2022, with Melinda Nicola and Peter D. Drummond); 'The Pain-Invalidation Scale: Measuring Patient Perceptions of Invalidation Toward Chronic Pain' (2022, with Melinda Nicola and Peter D. Drummond); 'Development and validation of the Fat Attitudes Assessment Toolkit (FAAT): A multidimensional nonstigmatizing measure of contemporary attitudes toward fatness and fat people' (2022, with Patricia Cain and Ngaire Donaghue); 'Combining physical and psychosocial safety: A comprehensive workplace safety model' (2020); and 'The impact of fly-in, fly-out (FIFO) on the health and well-being of employees: what organisations can do to mitigate the risks and improve outcomes' (2020, with Libby Brook). His scholarship has accumulated over 800 citations on Google Scholar, reflecting significant impact in organisational and health psychology fields. Ditchburn has supervised multiple doctoral and masters theses, contributing to the training of next-generation researchers in psychology.