Thomas Kieselbach

Thomas Kieselbach is professor of Work and Health Psychology and head of the Institute for Psychology of Work, Unemployment, and Health (IPG) at the University of Bremen, Germany.

Positions
He worked from 1993–1998 as professor for Health Psychology at the University of Hannover.

Main areas of interest
His main interests lie in psychology of unemployment, socialisation into work,unemployment and health, community psychology, health psychologyand health promotion, and occupational health.

Funded grants
He coordinated two EU-funded research consortia on Youth Unemployment and the Risk of Social Exclusion (1998–2000) and Social Convoy and Sustainable Employability: Innovative Outplacement/Replacement Counselling Strategies (2000–2004). He has also been involved in several European research projects as national partner (e.g., Unemployment and Mental Health, Local Initiatives to Combat Social Exclusion, European Career Management Training Foundation, Monitoring Innovative Enterprise Restructuring in Europe).

Honors
Since 2000 and until 2009 he is chairman of the Scientific Committee Unemployment and Health of the International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH). In 2003 he was appointed as member of the Policy Committee of the International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP) and chairman of its Subcommission Psychology of Unemployment

Editorial board/consulting editor
Since 1990 he has been the editor of the book series Psychology of Social Inequality (VS–Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften at Springer). He is a member of the editorial board of Ergonomia.

Books

 * Kieselbach, T. & Winefield, A., Boyd, C. & Anderson, S. (Eds.). (2006). Unemployment and Health. International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Bowen Hill: Australian Academic Press.


 * Kieselbach, T. Beelmann, G,, Mader, S. & Wagner, O. (2006). Berufliche Übergänge. Sozialer Geleitschutz bei Personalentlassungen in Deutschland. München: Hampp.

Papers

 * Espluga, J., Lemkow, L., Baltiérrez, J. & Kieselbach, T. (2004). Desempleo Juvenil, Exclusion Social y Salud. Investigaciones, Experiencias y Acciones Institucionales en Espana [Youth Unemployment, Social Exclusion and Health. Research, Experiences and Instittional Responses in Spain]. Barcelona: Icaria (197 pp.).


 * Kieselbach, T. (Ed.). (2004). Social Convoy in Occupational Transitions: Recommendations for a European Framework in the Context of Enterprise Restructuring. (SOCOSE publications, vol.1). Bremen: University of Bremen (70 pp.).


 * Zamanillo, M., Grote K., E.A. & Kieselbach, T. (2005). Desempleo de jovenes y exclusion social. Dimensiones, experiencias y respuestas institucionales [Youth Unemployment and the Risk of Social Exclusion: Dimensions, Experiences and Institutional Responses]. Rio Cuarto/Cordoba: National University of Rio Cuarto, Faculty of Human Sciences (201 pp.).


 * Kieselbach, T. (Ed.). (2006). Social Convoy in Enterprise Restructuring in Europe. Concepts, Instuments and Views of Social Actors in Europe. (SOCOSE publications, vol.2). München: Hampp (351 pp.).


 * Kieselbach, T., Bagnara, S., De Witte, H., Lemkow, L., Schaufeli, W. (Eds.). (2006). Coping with occupational transitions: An empirical study with employees facing job loss in five European countries (Psychologie sozialer Ungleichheit, vol. 13). Wiesbaden: VS - Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.