Rate My Professor Mikaela Owen

Dr. Mikaela Owen serves as a Lecturer in the School of Psychology at Adelaide University, within the College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences. She earned her Honours in Psychology from the University of South Australia in 2012 and completed her PhD in 2018. Her research centers on the health and well-being of university students, with a particular emphasis on working students, investigating how psychosocial risks in both workplace and academic environments contribute to adverse health and well-being outcomes. Owen also maintains a strong focus on work and organisational psychology, exploring work stress and the role of psychosocial risk factors in affecting workers' health and organisational performance. Eligible to co-supervise Masters and PhD students, she currently co-supervises doctoral research on distributed teams and individual and team performance.

Owen has an active publication record in prestigious journals, addressing critical issues in occupational health, sleep science, and psychosocial factors. Notable publications include 'Sleep Deprivation Impairs Team Performance and Cohesion' (Greer et al., Sleep, 2025), which examines the impact of sleep loss on team dynamics; 'The sleep, circadian, and cognitive performance consequences of watchkeeping schedules in submariners: a scoping review' (Marando et al., Sleep Medicine Reviews, 2023); 'Leadership, work environment and caries prevention—what is good for the staff, is also good for the patients' (Berthelsen et al., Acta Odontologica Scandinavica, 2023); 'Does workplace social capital predict care quality through job satisfaction and stress at the clinic? A prospective study' (Berthelsen et al., BMC Public Health, 2021); and 'An integrated model of work-study conflict and work-study facilitation' (Owen et al., Journal of Career Development, 2018). In her teaching role, she delivers courses such as BEHL 3005 Advanced Research Methods, BEHL 2005 Introductory Research Methods, BEHL 1033 Personal and Professional Development, and others focused on psychological research methodologies.