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Overview

Tom Cox is affiliated with Birkbeck, University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans fields primarily in Engineering and Health Professions, with a significant focus on subfields including General Health Professions, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Building and Construction, Environmental Engineering, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The main topics covered by Cox's work include:

  • Healthcare professionals' stress and burnout
  • Workplace Health and Well-being
  • Gyrotron and Vacuum Electronics Research
  • Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders
  • Anesthesia and Sedative Agents
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Building Energy and Comfort Optimization

Several recent papers demonstrate the breadth of Cox's expertise across these fields:

  • "Doctors' working conditions, wellbeing and hospital quality of care: A multilevel analysis" (2020, Safety Science)
  • "Dexmedetomidine- or Clonidine-Based Sedation Compared With Propofol in Critically Ill Patients" (2025, JAMA)
  • "Field testing of the QUB method for assessing the thermal performance of dwellings: In situ measurements of the heat transfer coefficient of a circa 1950s detached house in UK" (2020, Energy and Buildings)
  • "Work-related factors in the etiology of symptoms of post-traumatic stress among first responders: the Brazilian Firefighters Longitudinal Health Study (FLoHS)" (2021, Cadernos de Saúde Pública)
  • "Returning to clinical work and doctors' personal, social and organisational needs: a systematic review" (2022, BMJ Open)

Cox frequently collaborates with coauthors including Timothy Walsh, Kevin Teoh, David Hope, Nazir Lone, and John Norrie. The most common publication venues for Cox include:

  • Energy and Buildings
  • JAMA
  • Safety Science
  • BMJ Open
  • Cadernos de Saúde Pública

The interdisciplinary nature of Cox's work is reflected in the combination of health-related research on healthcare professionals and workplace well-being with engineering-focused studies on building energy and electronic research.

Best Publications

  • Research on work-related stress

    Tom Cox

  • Exploratory Factor Analysis: A Users’Guide

    Eamonn Ferguson;Tom Cox

  • The structure of employee attitudes to safety: A European example

    Sue Cox;Tom Cox

  • An inventory for the measurement of self‐reported stress and arousal

    Colin Mackay;Tom Cox;Grenville Burrows;Tony Lazzerini

  • The cost of work-related stress to society: a systematic review

    Juliet Hassard;Kevin R. H. Teoh;Gintare Visockaite;Philip Dewe

  • Individual differences, stress and coping.

    Tom Cox;Eamonn Ferguson

  • Burnout, Health, Work Stress, and Organizational Healthiness

    Tom Cox;George Kuk;Michael P. Leiter

  • Psychosocial factors predicting employee sickness absence during economic decline

    M Kivimäki;J Vahtera;L Thomson;A Griffiths

  • Relationship between work stress and body mass index among 45,810 female and male employees

    Anne Kouvonen;Mika Kivimäki;Sara J Cox;Tom Cox

  • The Appraisal of Life Events (ALE) scale: Reliability and validity

    Eamonn Ferguson;Gerald Matthews;Tom Cox

  • Individual strategies for coping with stress at work: A review

    Philip Dewe;Tom Cox;Eamonn Ferguson

  • The nature and measurement of work-related stress: theory and practice

    Tom Cox;A. Griffiths

  • The future of organizational interventions: addressing the challenges of today's organizations

    Karina Nielsen;Toon W. Taris;Tom Cox

  • Psychosocial factors and psychophysiological mechanisms in the aetiology and development of cancers

    Tom Cox;Colin Mackay

  • Evaluating organizational-level work stress interventions: Beyond traditional methods

    Tom Cox;Maria Karanika;Amanda Griffiths;Jonathan Houdmont

  • The nature and measurement of stress

    Tom Cox

  • Exposure to occupational violence and the buffering effects of intra-organizational support.

    Phil Leather;Claire Lawrence;Di Beale;Tom Cox

  • Calculating the cost of work-related stress and psychosocial risks

    J. Hassard;Kevin Teoh;Tom Cox;M. Cosmar

  • The European Framework for Psychosocial Risk Management: PRIMA-EF

    S. Leka;Tom Cox

  • Integrated motor drives: state of the art and future trends

    Robert Abebe;Gaurang Vakil;Giovanni Lo Calzo;Thomas Cox

  • The development of the European framework for psychosocial risk management: PRIMA-EF.

    Stavroula Leka;Aditya Jain;Tom Cox;Evelyn Kortum

Frequent Co-Authors

Eamonn Ferguson
Eamonn Ferguson University of Nottingham
Karina Nielsen
Karina Nielsen University of Sheffield
Toon W. Taris
Toon W. Taris Utrecht University
Gerald Matthews
Gerald Matthews George Mason University
Stephen Joseph
Stephen Joseph University of Nottingham

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