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Disabled and academic: a collaborative autoethnography
Academic work is challenging and relentless, but how is it experienced by disabled scholars ? How does structural ableism impact working lives of disabled academics? Universities are often seen as pillars of knowledge and social progress, but do they also pose...
The Introduction of Hi-Vis Workwear in Australia
It is pleasing to see this article by Jesse Adams Stein, Bettina Frankham and myself just out with Australian Historical Studies. It is our first scholarly piece from our project investigating hi vis work wear and workers, a multidisciplinary project in history,...
Heat and work during the pandemic
I am really delighted to share a new chapter I’ve published, in Jesse Adams Stein and Chantel Carr's edited volume Working through Planetary Breakdown: Labour, Skill and the Changing Climate. My chapter is on the experiences of blue-collar United Workers Union members...
Working and Not: Life in an Economic Crisis
I recently came across this recording of a talk I delivered for the New South Wales State Library a few years ago, as part of their Scholar Talks series. The talk was part of my 2019 Dr AM Hertzberg AO Fellowship, but given online in 2022 due to the disruption of...
Work Health and Safety, Adaptation and Climate Change
I'm really happy to have a chapter in the Elgar Companion to Decent Work and the Sustainable Development Goals, published earlier this year. The compendium is a mammoth effort — it has 50 or so chapters from world leading scholars on key questions in the world of...
Inertia in transformed times: work health and safety amid climate change
In my article in the Journal of Industrial Relations, in a volume acknowledging the journal's 65th year, I examine the growing impacts of climate change on work health and safety (WHS) and argue that Australia is poorly prepared to protect workers from these risks....
From protests to politicians’ pressers, we’re in our hi-vis era
This week I published an article with my UTS colleagues Bettina Frankham (Media Arts and Production) and Jesse Adams Stein, (School of Design) in The Conversation Australia + NZ. In the piece we look at the socio-political context of hi-vis clothing in Australia, and...
Neoliberalism: Different paths within a global project
A new (fourth) edition of The Companion to Development Studies has recently been published by Routledge (eds. Emil Dauncey, Vandana Desai and Robert B Petter). The book includes my short chapter, 'Neoliberalism: Different paths within a global project', exploring its...