Humanitarian Work Psychology

Contextualizing Humanitarian work in history, justice, methods and professional ethics, this book articulates process skills for transformational partnerships between diverse organizations, motivating education, organizational learning and selecting the disaster workforce.

Stuart C. Carr is Professor of Psychology at Massey University, New Zealand, and coordinates the Poverty Research Group, an international cross-disciplinary network. He has led multi-country, cross-sector studies of pay disparity in poverty reduction work. His books are among the first to examine poverty reduction from a work psychology perspective. Malcolm MacLachlan is Professor of Psychology and Director of Research in the School of Psychology, and Associate Director of the Centre for Global Health, at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He has published extensively in the areas of disability, global health and humanitarian work psychology. He has worked with a range of United Nations and non-governmental organizations and is currently research advisor to the secretariat of the African Decade for Persons with Disability. Adrian Furnham is Professor of Psychology at University College London, UK. He has held visiting professorships at the University of New South Wales, the University of the West Indies, the University of Hong Kong and the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He has recently been made Adjunct Professor of Management at the Norwegian School of Management (2009). He has published 70 books, over 1000 papers and is a columnist in the (British) Sunday Times.