Amber Tsai
University of Tasmania

Amber Tsai

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania

See Amber Tsai’s full research profile here.

E: amber.tsai@utas.edu.au

Research outputs linked to policy change and decision-making

• Sustaining Emergency Volunteer Workforces: Exploring the interplay between leader behaviour and volunteer satisfaction. 1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104504
• Leading Volunteers Effectively: Development and preliminary validation of the Volunteer Leader Behavior Scale. 1177/08997640241254081
• Emergency Volunteer Motivation and Leadership Research Report 2022-23. 13140/RG.2.2.26766.78400
• Leading Volunteer Motivation: How leader behaviour can trigger and fulfil volunteers’ Motivations. 1007/s11266-023-00588-6
• Emergency volunteering: Leading engagement and retention. volunteeringaustralia.org/research/volunteering-research-papers-initiative/

Highest Qualification

• 2024: PhD in Management, University of Tasmania. Dissertation title: Volunteer motivation and leadership in emergency volunteering

Current Academic Employment

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania
• Study Coordinator, Community experiences of the 2022 Australian floods – Tasmania, Natural Hazards Research Australia
• Workshop Lead, Behavioural and Experimental Economics, Tasmanian Behavioural Lab, University of Tasmania

My Projects

Current projectCompleted project

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  What does success look like? Factors resulting in positive outcomes for Landcare and threatened-species recovery-team projects

  Keywords: Monitoring, Landcare, threatened species recovery teams, national scaleprogram design

  
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  Socioeconomic insights for resilient landscapes

  Keywords: socio-economics, Regional planning, Evaluation, Environmental management