4. Service
Organisational Service
2017-2019 Member of the School of Social Science Research Ethics Review Panel (RERP) at London Metropolitan University.
2004-2006 Chair of the Forum (School of Psychology), member of the Senior Management Team (School of Psychology), and member of the Academic Board (University) at London Metropolitan University.
1999-2001 Coordinator of Task Force on the Aims of the Education Reform, Social Sciences and Education Panel, at Chinese University of Hong Kong for providing feedback to the Government on its proposal of education reform. Contributions were first published in newspapers/magazines and then collected in a book [B2].
1989-1993 Evaluator at Nordic Institute for Advanced Training in Occupational Health (NIVA). In collaboration with two Directors, we wrote reports aimed at improving the design and delivery of modules [R2-R4].
Research Consulting
2001-2006 Positive development in extra-curricular and community based activities: project conducted by Reed Larson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and funded by William T. Grant Foundation.
1994-1997 Daily experience and mental health of youth at risk: project conducted by Maryse Richards (Loyola University Chicago) and funded by NIMH.
1989 Spine pathology and LBP determinants in identical twins: project conducted by Michelle Battié and Tapio Videman (University of Alberta) and funded by NIH.
Editorial Service
1999- Member of the International Advisory Board, Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health.
2016-2022 Consulting Editor, Educational Psychology.
2016-2020 Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Well-Being Assessment.
2017 Article Editor: SAGE Open.
2013-2016 Member of the Editorial Review Board, Educational Psychology.
2005-2006 Member of the International Scientific Committee, 3rd European Conference on Positive Psychology, 2-6 July 2006, Braga, Portugal.
2004 Guest Editor: Journal of Happiness Studies, special issue The Flow Experience Across Cultures.
1990- Ad hoc Reviewer for: Emotion; Applied Psychology; Psychological Methods; Developmental Psychology; Creativity and Innovation Management; Studies in Higher Education; Addiction; Psychology of Aging; PLOS ONE; Addictive Behaviors; American Educational Research Journal; Journal of Happiness Studies; Personality and Individual Differences; Medical Hypotheses; Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health; Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports; Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology; European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology; Learning and Individual Differences; Anxiety, Stress & Coping; Motivation & Emotion; Learning and Instruction; Journal of Adolescence; Human Relations; Philosophical Psychology; Creativity Research Journal; Educational Psychology; Psychological Reports; Social Behavior and Personality; Spanish Journal of Psychology; Asian Journal of Social Psychology; Education Journal; Internet Journal of Epidemiology; Sport et Motricité; Testing, Psicometria, Metodologia (TPM).
Evaluation of Research Proposals
2023 Reviewer for a project submitted to the FWF-Austrian Science Fund.
2008 Reviewer for a project submitted to the Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC, UK).
2008 Reviewer for a project submitted to the Swiss National Science Foundation.