Dr Anna Kiaos

T.A. Kiaos is a critical ethnographer with a passion for psychiatry, psychology and mental health. Her research explores the boundary between the psychological and societal focused views of the self. Specifically, her PhD research encompassed several interconnected topics, notably, managerial ideology, normative control, the underlying systems of cultural and subcultural meaning with a particularly strong focus on conceptions of self enacted in everyday working life and how such enactments reflect self consciousness from the perspective of various cohorts in the workplace.

T.A. Kiaos trained under Professor Gideon Kunda, Tel Aviv University. She has consulted with organisations in a variety of industries, including government, healthcare organisations, consulting firms and private enterprise to assess and improve an organisation’s ideology, culture, culture change management practices and approaches to leadership.

T.A. Kiaos received her PhD in Management from Macquarie University Business School and her Master of Health Communication from the University of Sydney. She currently works for the University of New South Wales, Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health where she manages the Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health in combination with pursing her research. As such, she is heavily involved with the development of new postgraduate programs within the Discipline, including the Master of Mental Health Practice. Moreover, her work involves close collaboration across the Discipline's ample research groups, including the Trauma Mental Health Initiative, Centre for Healthy Brain and Aging (CHeBA) and the Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry (3DN) along with the Discipline's Medical Research Institutes, notably, Black Dog Institute, Ingham Institute and Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA).

For consulting services, please contact Anna via email: a.kiaos@unsw.edu.au.