Dr Kamaljit Birdi
Senior Lecturer in Occupational Psychology
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Dr Kamaljit Birdi gained a PhD in Psychology from The University of Sheffield following an MSc in Occupational Psychology and a BSc (Hons) in Psychology. He is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist registered with the British Psychological Society (BPS) and Health and Care Professions Council, a Chartered Member of the European Federation of Psychologists Associations (EuroPsy) and an ESRC/EPSRC Advanced Institute of Management (AIM) Scholar. In 2010, he was given the BPS Division of Occupational Psychology Academic Contribution to Practice Award for his work on training evaluation and innovation.
His areas of expertise are creativity and innovation, training and development and organisational learning.
Research Interests
Dr Kamaljit Birdi's current research areas are:
- Creativity and innovation
- Evaluation of training and development activities
- Identifying factors influencing the effectiveness of workplace learning
- E-learning
- Organisational learning
- The effects of ageing in the working population
- Attitudes and behaviour
Publications
Birdi, K. & Reid, T. (2013). Training. In Work and Occupational Psychology: Integrating Theory and Practice. Sage Press.
Birdi, K., Leach, D. & Magadley, W. (2012). Evaluating the impact of TRIZ creativity training: An organizational field study. R & D Management, 42(4), 315-326.
Birdi, K. et al. (2012). Police knowledge sharing capabilities. EU COMPOSITE report. ISBN/EAN: 978-90-811696-3-9.
Turgoose, C., Birdi, K., Allen, K., Macdonald, I. & Vössing, J. (2012). Effectiveness of Knowledge Sharing in Police Organisations – Diagnostic Instrument (EKSPO-DI). COMPOSITE Report (Deliverable 3.3) to the European Union.
Magadley, W. & Birdi, K. (2012). Two sides of the innovation coin? An empirical investigation of the relative correlates of idea generation and idea implementation. International Journal of Innovation Management, 16(1), 1-28.
Allen, K. & Birdi, K. (2011). Knowledge sharing practices and issues in policing contexts. A systematic review of the literature. COMPOSITE Report (Deliverable 3.1) to the European Union.