Hi! Welcome to my website! I'm Alyssa 😊
Tattoos
I love tattoos and find them fascinating as a form of art. Being in professional settings, I notice few people have visible tattoos showing. I have many tattoos including ones that I cannot cover on my hands.
The discrepancy between myself and others in professional settings has gotten me interested in studying tattoos in the workplace to better understand the reality of being a tattooed employee or leader. My current research focuses on this topic, namely how employees perceive and behave towards colleagues (coworkers and leaders) with tattoos.
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Education
2021-2025
PhD in Management
Organizational Behaviour
Smith School of Business, Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Supervised by Dr. Julian Barling, I examined perceptions of tattooed colleagues, and the role of tattoo content. My dissertation was titled "Tattooed Workers: The Nature of the Tattoo Matters for Observer Perceptions and Treatment of Tattooed Colleagues."
2020-2021
Smith School of Business, Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Supervised by Dr. Julian Barling, I studied the impact of parental work injuries on children, namely how these experiences affect later leader emergence. My thesis was titled "Parents' Work Injuries and Children's Later Leader Emergence".
MSc in Management
Organizational Behaviour
2015-2020
BSc (First Class Honours) in Psychology
Minor in Sociology
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
I focused on Industrial/Organizational (I/O) Psychology.
My honours thesis, titled "Support for Safety from Different Sources Predicts Safety Outcomes: The Mediating Role of Job-Related Affective Well-Being", was supervised by Dr. Nick Turner and Steve Granger from the Haskayne School of Business,