Rate My Professor Sarven Mclinton

Dr Sarven McLinton is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology, College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences at Adelaide University. He is the Director of HIGHER, the Healthy Inclusive Gaming, Hobby and Esports Research group. He also serves as a Research Associate at the Centre for Workplace Excellence, managing a large Australian Research Council project investigating psychosocial factors for healthcare staff. McLinton is a full member of the Adelaide University Human Research Ethics Committee, coordinates Research Ethics Advisors in psychology, and provides education and training on research ethics to staff and students. His teaching encompasses research-based skills for undergraduate and postgraduate students through standalone workshops and courses such as BEHL 4052 Psychology Research Methods, BEHL 4063 Communicating Research, and BEHL 3005 Advanced Research Methods. He is eligible to supervise Masters and PhD students and currently acts as principal supervisor for doctoral theses on professional gameplay workers as an emerging career industry and supporting elite athlete wellbeing during retirement transitions, as well as co-supervisor for a project on gender bias and consumer attitudes in the Womens Australian Football League.

McLinton's fields of expertise include esports and the psychology of professional video game players, Psychosocial Safety Climate, frontline healthcare workers, cross-cultural psychology in areas such as workplace bullying, instrument development, the Delphi method, work stress and anger, and sports-based research from broad performance to specific domains like martial arts and esports. He has participated in international exchanges for data collection in Japan to enhance his research skills and holds a 5th-degree black belt, running the Campbelltown Traditional Japanese Karate club as the South Australian head dojo of an international network. Key publications co-authored by McLinton encompass 'Psychosocial safety climate, emotional exhaustion, and work injuries in healthcare workplaces' (Stress and Health, 2017), 'New perspectives on psychosocial safety climate in healthcare: A mixed methods approach' (Safety Science, 2018), 'Psychosocial safety climate, psychosocial and physical factors in the aetiology of musculoskeletal disorder symptoms and workplace injury compensation claims' (Work & Stress, 2015), 'Work stress and driving anger in Japan' (Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2010), 'The dynamic interplay of physical and psychosocial safety climates in frontline healthcare' (Stress & Health, 2019), and 'Workplace bullying as an organizational problem: spotlight on people management practices' (Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 2022).