Olav Muurlink
Biographic Data
| ID | 73663 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olav Muurlink |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olav |
| FAMILY NAME | Muurlink |
| SIGNATURE | MUURLINK O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Central Queensland University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8251-9521 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Parasitic Enterprises: How Entrepreneurial Competencies Can Foster Corruption Within Organizations
How does corruption take root inside organizations that are outwardly legitimate and explicitly “zero tolerance?” Drawing on 9 years of co-constructed autoethnographic research from within an international NGO operating in coastal Bangladesh, we examine how entrepreneurial competencies can be redeployed for corrupt ends through the exploitation—and active production—of institutional and organizational voids. We extend Cavotta and Phillips’ model …
Ethnography as a backdoor to critical tourism studies: Insights from an ethnobiology study of Indigenous-bird relations in the Altiplano region of Perú and Bolivia
Indigenous-based tourism can alleviate poverty, yet its socioecological trade-offs remain poorly understood. This ethnobiology study examines the Uro people of Lake Titicaca, historically marginalized fishers once confined to floating islands made of totora sedge, to illustrate how tourism reshaped their livelihoods and environments within a couple of generations. It reveals how the Uro strategically leveraged their Traditional Ecological Knowled…
It’s Written on the Bin! A Snapshot Evaluation of Kerbside Bin Contamination from the Perspectives of Council-Based Waste Educators
As kerbside waste and recycling management practices evolve, integrating technology, community engagement, and policy enforcement are essential for achieving the transition from linear disposal to circular resource economies. Yet, where councils are the focus, research tends to determine what they should do rather than what they can do, arguably contributing to policy development that shifts waste and recycling management expectations onto local …
The rise of virtual yarning: An Indigenist research method
Social media is of growing interest as a platform for post-COVID research, providing ungated platforms for minority groups and activists that may struggle to have their messages and voices heard in other media. In First Nations communities around Australia there is a higher-than-average uptake of social media platforms, particularly Facebook. Based on a qualitative research project with a First Nations group in Southeast Queensland targeting know…
Stakeholder perceptions of what industry wants from doctoral students: A systematic literature review
An increasing mismatch between the global supply of PhD-qualified graduates with the global demand within the tertiary education sector comes despite academic positions remaining graduates’ first choice of future career. The ‘silver medal’ choice, research work in industry, is increasingly a likelier outcome, leading to a need to understand industry employers’ perspectives on desirable graduate attributes. This study systematically synthesises th…
Accuracy of Mothers’ Perception of Birth Size to Predict Birth Weight Data in Bangladesh
An important consideration when calculating the LBW prevalence is that maternally perceived birth size is not an optimal proxy for birth weight. Focus should be placed on encouraging institutional births and educating community health workers and young mothers about the significance of measuring and recording birth weight
The cultural context of training: The case of the interpreter in China and Australia
China and Australia differ markedly in cultural and social context, the demands placed on interpreters, and the training provided to interpreters to prepare them for professional duties. This paper aims to explore China and Australia’s translation and interpreting (T&I) training programs to elaborate on the “goodness of fit” of training and demonstrates how both the pragmatic and cultural context of interpreting (in both nations) explains anomali…
The promise of posthumanism in wildlife ecotourism: A set of case studies of veterinarians’ role at wildlife rehabilitation centers in Costa Rica
This study explored wildlife rehabilitation centers (WRCs) in Costa Rica as a potential posthumanist model for wildlife ecotourism. Posthumanism attends to the rights, welfare, and agency of nonhumans to depart from a conservation biology ethos that focuses on the species-level, to consider all particular individual animals in wildlife tourist attractions (WTAs). A team of 16 US-based researchers composed of faculty, a wildlife rehabilitation pro…
Psychological risks experienced by interpreters in the domestic violence cases: A systematic review
Interpreters occupy a complex position in police interviews involving domestic violence cases—neutral but necessary parties to traumatic content. The following systematic review explores the relatively sparse scholarly literature on interpreters' psychological responses to being a party to domestic violence interviews in a policing context. This article aims to explore themes of relevant studies targeting interpreters' mental health in such cases…
Clustered Iconography: A Resurrected Method for Representing Multidimensional Data
Development of graphical methods for representing data has not kept up with progress in statistical techniques. This article presents a brief history of graphical representations of research findings and makes the case for a revival of methods developed in the early and mid-twentieth century, notably ISOTYPE and Chernoff's faces. It resurrects and improves a procedure, clustered iconography, which enables the presentation of multidimensional data…
Intersectional theory and disadvantage: A tool for decolonisation
It is widely recognised that First Nations peoples in Australia (also known as Aboriginal Australians) have some of the poorest health and social outcomes of any other group. This is evidenced in a number of areas including the disproportionately high rates of disability for First Nations peoples in Australia. This paper explores how the intersection of race and disability compounds disadvantage for First Nations peoples with disability in Austra…
Under the regulatory radar: Unregulated rural healthcare in Bangladesh and Australia
This study examines health regulation under conditions of geographical constraint in two strikingly different settings, one on a remote island in Bangladesh and the other in an impoverished rural region in Australia. Both suffer from an absence of medically qualified professionals, which means that in the resultant vacuum, patients access alternative healthcare. The concept of regulation (or lack of regulation) is explored in terms of unconventio…
Covid-19: Cultural Predictors of Gender Differences in Global Prevalence Patterns
Puzzling differences are emerging between male and female infection and death rates for COVID-19 (Cai, 2020). We predict that this may be amplified, especially in the developing world, due to hitherto overlooked cultural factors. Currently, credible data from low- and lower middle-income countries on COVID-19 are sparse, with recorded case numbers seemingly suppressed by unreliable surveillance, lesser testing capacity and an underlying burden of…
Healthcare Capacity, Health Expenditure, and Civil Society as Predictors of Covid-19 Case Fatalities: A Global Analysis
Background The rapid growth in cases of COVID-19 has challenged national healthcare capacity, testing systems at an advanced ICU, and public health infrastructure level. This global study evaluates the association between multi-factorial healthcare capacity and case fatality of COVID-19 patients by adjusting for demographic, health expenditure, population density and prior burden of noncommunicable disease. It also explores the impact of governme…
Transcultural Development
In practice, development too often neglects the perspective of the impoverished when attempting to ameliorate negative socioeconomic conditions that persist. Entrepreneurs, and in particular social entrepreneurs, often attempt to solve social issues through a triple-bottom line approach but in many cases focus on the problem without greater consideration to the cultural context of their intervention. We introduce a new term, transcultural develop…
Cyclonic Change: How Tracy Shaped Australian Loss Adjusters’ Break from Britain
The professional institutions of loss adjusting in Australasia were shaped by a range of postcolonial developments, including adhesion to the British badge of organizational prestige, the Royal Charter. The aim of this paper is to explore how a single exogenous shock to the institution of loss adjusting in Australia enhanced a sense of national identity, altering the future of those institutions. Our conclusions are based on over sixty interviews…
Overview of qualitative methods
This chapter provides an introduction to qualitative methods in psychology. Qualitative research is grounded in different epistemological assumptions to quantitative approaches, taking greater consideration of the role of the research in shaping the method and findings of studies. It assumes that researchers are not neutral in the research process but are ‘socially situated’ and bring a broadly interpretivist approach to research, in contrast to …
Relationships between children’s behaviour and parents’ work within families of mining and energy workers
We examine the relationships between the working arrangements of mineworkers and behavioural issues in their children, using a large Australian matched-pair dataset of workers and their partners. The findings suggest both that workers’ work conditions, and aspects of safety and security influence aspects of child behaviour, reflecting not least the results of tiredness, emotional exhaustion and sleep interruption. In addition, it appears that chi…
Arsenicosis and stigmatisation
Arsenicosis is believed to have debilitating effects on social relations, but with arsenic poisoning previously associated directly with economic and cognitive impacts, the degree to which stigmatisation is influenced by socio-economic or health status has not been established in the literature. Based on face-to-face interviews with 100 arsenic outpatients from specialist arsenic clinics in rural Bangladesh, this study represents an early quantit…
Getting a Grip on Why Incivility Happens Within the Workplace: A Commentary Essay
Work-related influences on marital satisfaction amongst shiftworkers and their partners: A Large, Matched-Pairs Study
This study details a large cross-sectional couples-level exploration of work-related variables and marital satisfaction (MSAT) in a shift work context. It uses a recognized MSAT scale and a number of existing and new instruments to examine work characteristics that include: support, safety climate, work–life balance, and sleep, in combination with scales for other commonly used explanatory variables in MSAT studies. The study shows that work-spec…
Intersectional theory and disadvantage: A tool for decolonisation
It is widely recognised that First Nations peoples in Australia (also known as Aboriginal Australians) have some of the poorest health and social outcomes of any other group. This is evidenced in a number of areas including the disproportionately high rates of disability for First Nations peoples in Australia. This paper explores how the intersection of race and disability compounds disadvantage for First Nations peoples with disability in Austra…
Under the regulatory radar: Unregulated rural healthcare in Bangladesh and Australia
This study examines health regulation under conditions of geographical constraint in two strikingly different settings, one on a remote island in Bangladesh and the other in an impoverished rural region in Australia. Both suffer from an absence of medically qualified professionals, which means that in the resultant vacuum, patients access alternative healthcare. The concept of regulation (or lack of regulation) is explored in terms of unconventio…
The rise of virtual yarning: An Indigenist research method
Social media is of growing interest as a platform for post-COVID research, providing ungated platforms for minority groups and activists that may struggle to have their messages and voices heard in other media. In First Nations communities around Australia there is a higher-than-average uptake of social media platforms, particularly Facebook. Based on a qualitative research project with a First Nations group in Southeast Queensland targeting know…
Relationships between children’s behaviour and parents’ work within families of mining and energy workers
We examine the relationships between the working arrangements of mineworkers and behavioural issues in their children, using a large Australian matched-pair dataset of workers and their partners. The findings suggest both that workers’ work conditions, and aspects of safety and security influence aspects of child behaviour, reflecting not least the results of tiredness, emotional exhaustion and sleep interruption. In addition, it appears that chi…
Work-related influences on marital satisfaction amongst shiftworkers and their partners: A Large, Matched-Pairs Study
This study details a large cross-sectional couples-level exploration of work-related variables and marital satisfaction (MSAT) in a shift work context. It uses a recognized MSAT scale and a number of existing and new instruments to examine work characteristics that include: support, safety climate, work–life balance, and sleep, in combination with scales for other commonly used explanatory variables in MSAT studies. The study shows that work-spec…
Getting a Grip on Why Incivility Happens Within the Workplace: A Commentary Essay
Work-related influences on marital satisfaction amongst shiftworkers and their partners: A Large, Matched-Pairs Study
This study details a large cross-sectional couples-level exploration of work-related variables and marital satisfaction (MSAT) in a shift work context. It uses a recognized MSAT scale and a number of existing and new instruments to examine work characteristics that include: support, safety climate, work–life balance, and sleep, in combination with scales for other commonly used explanatory variables in MSAT studies. The study shows that work-spec…
Arsenicosis and stigmatisation
Arsenicosis is believed to have debilitating effects on social relations, but with arsenic poisoning previously associated directly with economic and cognitive impacts, the degree to which stigmatisation is influenced by socio-economic or health status has not been established in the literature. Based on face-to-face interviews with 100 arsenic outpatients from specialist arsenic clinics in rural Bangladesh, this study represents an early quantit…
Relationships between children’s behaviour and parents’ work within families of mining and energy workers
We examine the relationships between the working arrangements of mineworkers and behavioural issues in their children, using a large Australian matched-pair dataset of workers and their partners. The findings suggest both that workers’ work conditions, and aspects of safety and security influence aspects of child behaviour, reflecting not least the results of tiredness, emotional exhaustion and sleep interruption. In addition, it appears that chi…
Overview of qualitative methods
This chapter provides an introduction to qualitative methods in psychology. Qualitative research is grounded in different epistemological assumptions to quantitative approaches, taking greater consideration of the role of the research in shaping the method and findings of studies. It assumes that researchers are not neutral in the research process but are ‘socially situated’ and bring a broadly interpretivist approach to research, in contrast to …
Covid-19: Cultural Predictors of Gender Differences in Global Prevalence Patterns
Puzzling differences are emerging between male and female infection and death rates for COVID-19 (Cai, 2020). We predict that this may be amplified, especially in the developing world, due to hitherto overlooked cultural factors. Currently, credible data from low- and lower middle-income countries on COVID-19 are sparse, with recorded case numbers seemingly suppressed by unreliable surveillance, lesser testing capacity and an underlying burden of…
Healthcare Capacity, Health Expenditure, and Civil Society as Predictors of Covid-19 Case Fatalities: A Global Analysis
Background The rapid growth in cases of COVID-19 has challenged national healthcare capacity, testing systems at an advanced ICU, and public health infrastructure level. This global study evaluates the association between multi-factorial healthcare capacity and case fatality of COVID-19 patients by adjusting for demographic, health expenditure, population density and prior burden of noncommunicable disease. It also explores the impact of governme…
Transcultural Development
In practice, development too often neglects the perspective of the impoverished when attempting to ameliorate negative socioeconomic conditions that persist. Entrepreneurs, and in particular social entrepreneurs, often attempt to solve social issues through a triple-bottom line approach but in many cases focus on the problem without greater consideration to the cultural context of their intervention. We introduce a new term, transcultural develop…
Cyclonic Change: How Tracy Shaped Australian Loss Adjusters’ Break from Britain
The professional institutions of loss adjusting in Australasia were shaped by a range of postcolonial developments, including adhesion to the British badge of organizational prestige, the Royal Charter. The aim of this paper is to explore how a single exogenous shock to the institution of loss adjusting in Australia enhanced a sense of national identity, altering the future of those institutions. Our conclusions are based on over sixty interviews…
Intersectional theory and disadvantage: A tool for decolonisation
It is widely recognised that First Nations peoples in Australia (also known as Aboriginal Australians) have some of the poorest health and social outcomes of any other group. This is evidenced in a number of areas including the disproportionately high rates of disability for First Nations peoples in Australia. This paper explores how the intersection of race and disability compounds disadvantage for First Nations peoples with disability in Austra…
Under the regulatory radar: Unregulated rural healthcare in Bangladesh and Australia
This study examines health regulation under conditions of geographical constraint in two strikingly different settings, one on a remote island in Bangladesh and the other in an impoverished rural region in Australia. Both suffer from an absence of medically qualified professionals, which means that in the resultant vacuum, patients access alternative healthcare. The concept of regulation (or lack of regulation) is explored in terms of unconventio…
The cultural context of training: The case of the interpreter in China and Australia
China and Australia differ markedly in cultural and social context, the demands placed on interpreters, and the training provided to interpreters to prepare them for professional duties. This paper aims to explore China and Australia’s translation and interpreting (T&I) training programs to elaborate on the “goodness of fit” of training and demonstrates how both the pragmatic and cultural context of interpreting (in both nations) explains anomali…
The promise of posthumanism in wildlife ecotourism: A set of case studies of veterinarians’ role at wildlife rehabilitation centers in Costa Rica
This study explored wildlife rehabilitation centers (WRCs) in Costa Rica as a potential posthumanist model for wildlife ecotourism. Posthumanism attends to the rights, welfare, and agency of nonhumans to depart from a conservation biology ethos that focuses on the species-level, to consider all particular individual animals in wildlife tourist attractions (WTAs). A team of 16 US-based researchers composed of faculty, a wildlife rehabilitation pro…
Psychological risks experienced by interpreters in the domestic violence cases: A systematic review
Interpreters occupy a complex position in police interviews involving domestic violence cases—neutral but necessary parties to traumatic content. The following systematic review explores the relatively sparse scholarly literature on interpreters' psychological responses to being a party to domestic violence interviews in a policing context. This article aims to explore themes of relevant studies targeting interpreters' mental health in such cases…
Clustered Iconography: A Resurrected Method for Representing Multidimensional Data
Development of graphical methods for representing data has not kept up with progress in statistical techniques. This article presents a brief history of graphical representations of research findings and makes the case for a revival of methods developed in the early and mid-twentieth century, notably ISOTYPE and Chernoff's faces. It resurrects and improves a procedure, clustered iconography, which enables the presentation of multidimensional data…
Stakeholder perceptions of what industry wants from doctoral students: A systematic literature review
An increasing mismatch between the global supply of PhD-qualified graduates with the global demand within the tertiary education sector comes despite academic positions remaining graduates’ first choice of future career. The ‘silver medal’ choice, research work in industry, is increasingly a likelier outcome, leading to a need to understand industry employers’ perspectives on desirable graduate attributes. This study systematically synthesises th…
Accuracy of Mothers’ Perception of Birth Size to Predict Birth Weight Data in Bangladesh
An important consideration when calculating the LBW prevalence is that maternally perceived birth size is not an optimal proxy for birth weight. Focus should be placed on encouraging institutional births and educating community health workers and young mothers about the significance of measuring and recording birth weight
The rise of virtual yarning: An Indigenist research method
Social media is of growing interest as a platform for post-COVID research, providing ungated platforms for minority groups and activists that may struggle to have their messages and voices heard in other media. In First Nations communities around Australia there is a higher-than-average uptake of social media platforms, particularly Facebook. Based on a qualitative research project with a First Nations group in Southeast Queensland targeting know…
Parasitic Enterprises: How Entrepreneurial Competencies Can Foster Corruption Within Organizations
How does corruption take root inside organizations that are outwardly legitimate and explicitly “zero tolerance?” Drawing on 9 years of co-constructed autoethnographic research from within an international NGO operating in coastal Bangladesh, we examine how entrepreneurial competencies can be redeployed for corrupt ends through the exploitation—and active production—of institutional and organizational voids. We extend Cavotta and Phillips’ model …
Ethnography as a backdoor to critical tourism studies: Insights from an ethnobiology study of Indigenous-bird relations in the Altiplano region of Perú and Bolivia
Indigenous-based tourism can alleviate poverty, yet its socioecological trade-offs remain poorly understood. This ethnobiology study examines the Uro people of Lake Titicaca, historically marginalized fishers once confined to floating islands made of totora sedge, to illustrate how tourism reshaped their livelihoods and environments within a couple of generations. It reveals how the Uro strategically leveraged their Traditional Ecological Knowled…
It’s Written on the Bin! A Snapshot Evaluation of Kerbside Bin Contamination from the Perspectives of Council-Based Waste Educators
As kerbside waste and recycling management practices evolve, integrating technology, community engagement, and policy enforcement are essential for achieving the transition from linear disposal to circular resource economies. Yet, where councils are the focus, research tends to determine what they should do rather than what they can do, arguably contributing to policy development that shifts waste and recycling management expectations onto local …
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