Stuart-Edwards, Anastasia
Associate Professor
Dhillon School of Business - Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources
- Phone
- (403) 317-5034
- a.stuartedwards@uleth.ca
Biography
Dr. Anastasia Stuart-Edwards is an Associate Professor in the Dhillon School of Business at the University of Lethbridge (Calgary campus). A central focus of her research is employee health and well-being, including conditions that support or undermine it and the management of health conditions. Her recent work focuses on depression at work, including the experienced outcomes of this mental health condition, exacerbating and buffering factors, and its crossover effects. Additionally, she studies teamwork, including how team mindfulness develops and shapes the way teams function.
Dr. Stuart-Edwards is also a certified LEGO® Serious Play® facilitator. She uses the method in her research and in workshops with community and organizational partners to support reflection, dialogue, and shared problem-solving.
Dr. Stuart-Edwards is open to supervising graduate students and undergraduate independent and applied studies in the broad area of employee well-being. Interested students are encouraged to email her explaining why they are interested in working together and what they hope to learn from the experience.
Publications
Stuart‐Edwards, A. (2025). Mindfulness, subjective, and psychological well‐being: A comparative analysis of FFMQ and MAAS measures. Applied Psychology: Health and Well‐Being, 17(2), e70019.
Stuart-Edwards, A., MacDonald, A., & Ansari, M. A. (2023). Twenty years of research on mindfulness at work: A structured literature review. Journal of Business Research, 169, 114285.
Stuart-Edwards, A. (2023). Good begets good? Reciprocal relationships between mindfulness, approach coping, and subjective vitality. Personality and Individual Differences, 202, 111970.
Lavoie, R., Main, K., & Stuart-Edwards, A. (2022). Flow theory: Advancing the two-dimensional conceptualization. Motivation and Emotion, 46(1), 38-58.
Caza, B. B., Main, K., & Stuart-Edwards, A. (2022). Jack of all trades, master of none? Exploring factors that influence responses to white-collar professionals with multiple jobs. Academy of Management Discoveries, 8(4), 585-607.
Degrees
PhD in Organizational Behaviour, Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba
Research Interests
Employee well-being, mental health at work, chronic conditions, teamwork, mindfulness, LEGO® Serious Play®