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Work/Industry Futures Research Program

ANNUAL REPORT 2016

WORK/INDUSTRY FUTURES RESEARCH PROGRAM ANNUAL REPORT 2016 | 3

CONTENTSDIRECTOR’S REPORT 4

SUMMARY OF ACHIEVEMENTS 7

RESEARCH THEMES 9

SUSTAINABLE GOVERNANCE THEME 10

EMPLOYABILITY & EDUCATION THEME 14

JUST WORK THEME 18

PROGRAM ACHIEVEMENTS 24

HIGHER DEGREE RESEARCH STUDENTS 28

PUBLICATIONS 31

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DIRECTOR’S REPORT

This 2016 annual activity report outlines the research and engagement activities and outcomes of the Work/Industry Futures Research Program. Bridging academic and organisational contexts, and with funding and support from organisational partners, grants, councils and the QUT Business School, members have engaged in a broad range of research projects and activities. Throughout the year, the Program has consolidated its primary goal of examining complex problems at the intersection of business and society in order to address social inequality.

The Program’s three areas of inter-disciplinary focus – sustainable governance; employability and education; and just work – acknowledge the profound social implications arising from a globalised, ‘collaborative’ economy characterised by rapid and extensive technological change. Some contend that sweeping changes are creating a future of impermanence, inequality and job insecurity. Others see a utopian-like shift in which machine labourers and fluid hierarchies create time for leisure and new opportunities for cooperation. What is clear is that current and future trends are fundamentally challenging many of the institutions on which Australia and other post-industrial societies have been built. These challenges include how to guarantee income security in the face of shrinking labour markets and employment precarity, and manage rising inequality and social exclusion where costs of delivering social services are increasing at the same time as revenue sources are diminishing. Ensuring the privacy of citizens in an era of big data and expanding corporate power is also a fundamental challenge.


Working with Australian and international partners in the public, private and non-profit sectors, Work/Industry Futures researchers have been addressing these urgent concerns through research which directly informs creative and cost-effective policy responses. The scope and impact of our new and ongoing projects throughout the year has been extensive. They span topics including:

• climate change, advocacy and social movements

• the nature and legality of unpaid work in the context of contracting employment opportunities

• teaching impact and professional recognition

• job search strategies for at-risk young people

• food security and global land acquisitions

• economic and socio-cultural implications of digital platform work.

These programs of research have resulted in substantial end-user impacts, as evidenced by three cases that were shortlisted for the 2016 QUT research impact competition.

With regards to membership, we have said farewell to Dr Robin Price who has retired from QUT to pursue new opportunities. Robin has made a valuable contribution to Work/Industry Futures over a number of years and has been a generous colleague. We wish her well for the future. We’ve also welcomed Dr Kathy Moore as a new member. Kathy is an early career academic whose research addresses the employability of vulnerable groups with a focus on youth.

As the following report indicates, new and ongoing organisational partnerships have also been facilitated by Program members in 2016 through invited lectures and professional/leadership positions on government, NGO and private sector committees and governance groups. The group congratulated four PhD and three Masters by Research students for completing their degrees and welcomed five new higher degree research students. These students are studying topics including business survival following major disaster events, employability strategies, ICT and farming in Kenya, resourcing refugees and sustainability in construction. Our organisational partners and student and international affiliate members with whom we’ve worked closely through 2016 have been important to our achievements. We will continue to value these relationships into the future.

Professor Paula McDonaldDirector, Work/Industry Futures Research Program


WORK / INDUSTRY FUTURES RESEARCH PROGRAM MEMBERS A/PROFESSOR JENNIFER BARTLETTPROFESSOR ABBY CATHCARTDR BREE DEVINDR DEANNA GRANT-SMITHDR ROBYN MAYESPROFESSOR PAULA MCDONALDDR ROBIN PRICEDR CAROL RICHARDS

RESEARCH PROGRAM SUPPORTRENEE CHAPMANTINA GRAHAM (PROGRAM MANAGER)MELINDA LAUNDONDR KATHERINE MOOREPENNY WILLIAMS

STUDENT AFFILIATESDR RACHAEL COLE-HAWTHORNEKIRSTY CRANITCHMERRILYN DELPORTECARLA GONZALEZ ZLATARKIERAN GREGORYGLENN HEDGESGABRIELLE JESSCHOITY JONESTHOMAS KEENANMELINDA LAUNDONMARGARET LYONSJOSEPH MACHARIAPAOLO MARINELLIDR KATHERINE MOOREELLEN NIELSENEMIKO NOZUSAMANTHA PARADESDOMINIC PIACUNLIZ PYLESYLVIA ROUXRAYMOND STOKKEJANE TSAKISSIRISPENNY WILLIAMSPAUL WOODS

ABOVE (LEFT TO RIGHT): ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JENNIFER BARTLETT, DR BREE DEVIN, DR ROBYN MAYES, PROFESSOR PAULA MCDONALD (PROGRAM DIRECTOR), DR DEANNA GRANT-SMITH, PROFESSOR ABBY CATHCART, DR CAROL RICHARDS AND DR ROBIN PRICE

INTERNATIONAL AFFILIATESA/PROFESSOR JENNIFER BAIR (UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, USA)PROFESSOR TONY DUNDON (UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER, UK)DR PETER EDWARDS (SCION, NZ)PROFESSOR CHUL-KYOO KIM (KOREAN UNIVERSITY, SOUTH KOREA)PROFESSOR JO LITTLE (UNIVERSITY OF EXETER, UK)PROFESSOR ØYRINDLHLEN (UNIVERSITY OF OSLO, NORWAY)A/PROFESSOR JOSEF PALLAS (UNIVERSITY OF UPSALLA, SWEDEN)PROFESSOR JULIET ROPER (UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO, NZ)PROFESSOR PAUL THOMPSON (UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING, UK)PROFESSOR MICHAEL WOODS (ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY, UK)


SUMMARY OF ACHIEVEMENTS 2016

JOURNAL ARTICLES

BOOK CHAPTERS

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

END-USER & INDUSTRY REPORTS

INDUSTRY SEMINARS, KEYNOTES & PUBLIC LECTURES

29

12

19

8

31

NUMBER OF RESEARCH OUTPUTS

68%

QUALITY OF RESEARCH OUTPUTSPROPORTION OF PUBLICATIONS RANKED BY AUSTRALIAN BUSINESS DEANS COUNCIL AS A/A* OR SCIMAGO Q1

SYMPOSIUMS & EVENTS ORGANISED

8


RESEARCH THEMES

THE WORK INDUSTRY FUTURES RESEARCH PROGRAM SUPPORTS THREE RESEARCH THEMES:

THEME 1 SUSTAINABLE GOVERNANCE

THEME 2 EMPLOYABILITY

& EDUCATION

THEME 3 JUST WORK


SUSTAINABLE GOVERNANCE

THEME

Sustainable governance represents one of the major challenges of our times. Researchers working in this theme have contributed to global debates on ‘wicked problems’ such as food waste, food security, land grabbing, resource use, sustainable livelihoods and climate change. Working from the disciplinary perspectives of cultural studies, geography and planning, sociology and public relations, researchers in this theme have collaborated with local and international scholars, civil society and industry groups to offer robust, scholarly and empirically grounded insights regarding positive social change. This work has featured in public symposia, the media, industry journals and high quality peer reviewed journals, offering commentary and insights that are valuable to a range of research end users.

SYMPOSIUMSFAIR FOOD SYMPOSIUMOver 80 members of the public attended this event which was held at the Brisbane Square Library and hosted by Carol Richards and Dr Kiah Smith (UQ). The symposium featured ‘lightening talks’ by 14 speakers, including small food businesses, NGOs, academics, food activists, nutritionists and a farmer. Covering a range of topics including access to land for farmers to nutritious food in elder care homes, the speakers whetted the appetite for audience discussion on solutions to current food system problems. Questions raised included: What might an upscaled fair food system look like? What forms of food system governance and action will help overcome food inequalities? The Symposium ended with a strong commitment for participants to reconvene and drill down into food system issues and form a collaborative response to address these from a grass roots perspective. The next meeting is scheduled for 2017.


DIVESTMENT AND SOCIAL CHANGE SYMPOSIUMShen Narayanasamy, founder of No Business in Abuse and guest speaker on ABC’s Q&A program was amongst the high calibre presenters at this Divestment symposium, which was a collaboration between Carol Richards, Robyn Mayes and Prof Matthew Rimmer (QUT Faculty of Law). The forum explored the social, financial and legal debates regarding the rise of divestment movements around public health, climate change and asylum seeker detention centres. It provided a cross-disciplinary, scholarly consideration of the politics of divestment, featuring experts from law, business and civil society.

INDUSTRY SEMINARS, KEYNOTES AND PUBLIC LECTURESPUBLIC & EXTERNAL STAKEHOLDER EVENTSRobyn Mayes gave an invited presentation in April at CSIRO to the international Social Licence to Operate Community of Practice Seminar on the topic of power and scale in social licence to operate practices and conceptualisations.

Bree Devin gave an invited Expert Series Seminar on corporate social responsibility to the Queensland Government Department of Science, Information Technology and Innovation in July. She was also invited to present on food waste at the 2016 Fair Food Symposium in Brisbane in November.

A paper by Carol Richards and Robyn Mayes was presented at the Australian Earth Laws Alliance’s New Economies Conference in Sydney in August on the topic of financial disruption, fossil fuel divestment and investment in renewable energy.

In May, Abby Cathcart was invited to present her research on the John Lewis Partnership at the Civil Society symposium on Reviving the Co-operative Movement in Melbourne.

Bree Devin presented on social licence to operate at the 2016 Australian Meat Processing Corporation (AMPC) Conference in Sydney. Bree was funded by the AMPC to attend the conference.

ACADEMYIn April, Robyn Mayes was a visiting scholar at the Landscape and Environmental Sociology Research Lab, University of Melbourne where she gave a presentation: ‘Look what we’ve done for you’: Mining, local communities, and the social licence to operate’ to the School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, Parkville Seminar Series (Faculty of Science).

Carol Richards participated as an invited panellist on the topic of Envisioning the Future of Food Across North-South Divides: Transregional Food Networks and Movements held in Berlin in December. Carol was also invited by the Geography Department, Bayreuth University to present at their Research Colloquium on the topic of climate justice and fossil fuel divestment campaigns.

Jennifer Bartlett participated in a workshop on Corporate Social Responsibility and Communication sharing her paper on Multiple Voices shaping CSR Meanings and Practices at EGOS (European Group for Organisation Studies) in Naples.

QUT & CAPACITY BUILDINGIn May, Carol Richards presented her research at the QUT Women in Research Showcase which was hosted by the Women in Leadership Committee. She spoke about the global challenges of food security and identified sustainable models for future food systems that bring value to local economies, address global hunger and are adaptive to climate change.

Bree Devin presented at the School of Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations Business Breakfast Series on legitimacy in corporate social responsibility communication. As a result of the presentation she was invited to deliver an Expert Series Seminar for the Queensland Government Department of Science, Information Technology and Innovation.

IN THE MEDIARichards, C and B Devin. (2016)Powerful supermarkets push the cost of food waste onto suppliers, charities. The Conversation, February 29. https://theconversation.com/powerful-supermarkets-push-the-cost-of-food-waste-onto-suppliers-charities-54654

In March, Bree Devin spoke to ABC Radio Sunshine Coast about food waste and corporate social responsibility.

https://theconversation.com/powerful-supermarkets-push-the-cost-of-food-waste-onto-suppliers-charities-54654





PROJECTS SUPERMARKETS, COSMETIC STANDARDS AND FOOD WASTE Extensive research has been undertaken into the issue of corporate social responsibility and wastage of fresh fruit and vegetables from the perspectives of the fruit and vegetable industry, food rescue and food retail. The results revealed that despite Australian supermarkets’ zero food waste targets, large volumes of food are discarded. At a time when people globally experience hunger, as much as 50% of all food produced is thrown away every year. One of the main reasons cited for excessive food waste was strict supermarket standards that determine the cosmetic appearance of fresh fruit and vegetables, such as the curvature of a banana, or the size of an apple.

Project members: Bree Devin, Carol Richards

HOW DO RECREATIONAL FISHERS GET INFORMATION ABOUT CARING FOR WATER HABITATS?In collaboration with the NSW Department of Primary Industries, this ongoing research examines what sources of information are trusted by fishers; what engagement strategies are best used; and how all those with a stake in fishing and riparian management can work together to better manage the environment around waterways. The research focuses on understanding how fishers get information about riparian and coastal environmental management, fish cycles and stocks, and ways of protecting and restoring waterways. This knowledge can inform effective campaigns and engagement to further conservation efforts.

Project members: Jennifer Bartlett, Deanna Grant-Smith, Dr Natalie Osborne (Griffith University), Craig Copeland (NSW Fisheries)


MEGA FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS AND BIOSECURITY IN AUSTRALIAIn collaboration with the Australian Farm Institute, this research on mega free trade agreements and Australian biosecurity explores the shift from bilateral trade agreements to multi-lateral, mega Free Trade Agreements such as the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. The research highlights how the neoliberal doctrine that supports both free trade and deregulation is incompatible with protecting Australia’s biosecurity.

Project members: Carol Richards, A/Professor Vaughan Higgins (Charles Sturt University)

CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE FOSSIL FUEL DIVESTMENT MOVEMENTThis project examines civil society’s response to climate change. In-depth interviews in the UK and Australia reveal a frustration with the lack of decisive political action on climate change but also new and innovative approaches to effect change at the global level. Divestment, or the withdrawal of funds and investments from ethically questionable businesses, is a new tool in the climate activist repertoire. For example, the strategy has been effective in disrupting funding to controversial mining projects such as Adani’s Carmichael mine in North Queensland. The research also examines how new forms of citizen engagement increasingly act ‘through markets’ rather than through traditional avenues of engagement with parlianmentary politics.

Project Members: Carol Richards, Robyn Mayes, Professor Mike Woods (Aberystwyth University)

SOCIAL IMPACT OF THE RED MEAT PROCESSING INDUSTRY IN AUSTRALIAThis ongoing research examines the social impact of the red meat processing industry in Australia. Funded by the Australian Meat Processor Corporation, the four stage research project will empirically describe, value, and measure the social impact of the red meat processing industry in order to better understand the role the industry plays in sustaining rural and regional communities.

Project Members: Dr Kim Johnston, Dr Amanda Beatson and Dr Anne Lane (QUT Business School), Bree Devin


EMPLOYABILITY & EDUCATION

THEME

Employability is emerging as a dominant theme in employment and education discourses. Employability can be understood as the package of skills, personal attributes, knowledges and experiences that provide an individual access to employment. The concept is generally considered a useful one for understanding the extent to which individuals are adequately prepared to participate in the labour market. However, researchers working in this theme challenge the uncritical adoption of the construct of employability and have contributed to debates on precarious and unpaid work and education, training and skill development. They also take a broad reading of the construct, taking into account social, economic and political contexts, such as local labour market conditions, and the perspectives of employers. This work has featured in public symposia, the media, high quality peer reviewed journals, and consultancy reports.


SYMPOSIUMSEMPLOYABILITY SYMPOSIUM, NOVEMBERPaula McDonald and Deanna Grant-Smith, together with Professor Greg Marston (University of Queensland) convened a two-day symposium in November that was attended by 22 invited academics, practitioners and policy-makers from around Australia. The purpose of the symposium was to build a community of practice around employability and a range of research and policy issues were presented. At the symposium Paula McDonald presented on ‘Critical perspectives on employability’, Deanna Grant-Smith presented on ‘Employability strategies used by at-risk youth’ and Katherine Moore presented on ‘Addressing the employability of Australian youth: Key workplace and job seeker characteristics and critical support mechanisms for job retention’.

WOMEN [IN] PLANNING SYMPOSIUM, SEPTEMBERThe Women [in] Planning Symposium, which received funding from the Advance Queensland Women’s Academic Fund, was attended by more than 50 planning practitioners and academics. The overarching aim of the symposium was to explore the experiences of women in the planning profession and to articulate a collaborative research and practice agenda around planning by and for women. Attendance at the symposium attracted professional development points for members of the Planning Institute of Australia. The one-day symposium was convened by Deanna Grant-Smith, with colleagues from Griffith University’s Cities Research Program. It generated an invited special issue of Australian Planner which will be released to coincide with International Women’s Day 2017 (edited by A/Professor Caryl Bosman and Dr Natalie Osborne of Griffith University, and Deanna Grant-Smith).

INDUSTRY SEMINARS, KEYNOTES AND PUBLIC LECTURESPUBLIC & EXTERNAL STAKEHOLDER EVENTSIn April, Jennifer Bartlett was invited to take part in a panel on career strategies and personal branding for new practitioners to the public relations industry at the PRIA Mentoring event.

Deanna Grant-Smith conducted a workshop in July exploring student wellbeing and work-integrated learning with Dr Jenna Gillett-Swan (QUT) at the National Association of Field Experience Administrators annual conference in Melbourne.

Katherine Moore, Paula McDonald and Deanna Grant-Smith’s research on the structural barriers to employability for at-risk youth was presented at the Long Term Unemployment Conference, Brisbane in December.

Katherine Moore was invited to deliver a keynote address at the National Disability Services conference in Canberra in May. Her address focused on disability employment in the Australian retail sector; the subject of her recently completed PhD.

Abby Cathcart was invited to deliver a seminar to the Higher Education Academy at the Beyond Fellowship Symposium, Birmingham, UK in June titled ‘Shy bairns get nowt: Exploring the impact of professional recognition on individuals, the institution, and the wider community’.

Abby Cathcart chaired a Special Interest Group on ‘Doctoral Teaching and Professional Recognition’ at the Quality in Postgraduate Research (QPR) Conference, Adelaide, in April.

In September, Deanna Grant-Smith, together with Dr Natalie Osborne (Griffith University), delivered a workshop on method and methodology in urban research to participants of the Australian Early Career Urban Research Network (AECURN) Queensland Research Symposium.

ACADEMYAbby Cathcart was invited by the Transforming Assessment team in Australia, and the Higher Education Academy (UK) to lead an international Webinar with Dr Darrall Thompson (University of Technology, Sydney) on Assessment in May. Drawing on their research on moderation, calibration and academic self-efficacy they created a series of digital ‘Conversation Catalysts’ to prompt discussion and debate by the 75 participants from across the world.

In November Abby Cathcart was the keynote speaker at the University of Newcastle, Faculty of Business and Law Annual Symposium, Making it count: Using assessment and feedback to engage students and promote learning. Abby also presented a seminar Teaching impact: Why it matters and how to evidence it.

Deanna Grant-Smith presented a keynote presentation in November on the challenges of higher education research and the early career academic at the 2016 QUT Higher Education Research Network (HERN) Symposium: Putting higher education research into practice at QUT.

Work/Industry Futures Group members presented three management education workshops at the Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) Conference in December. Abby Cathcart and Robyn Mayes presented on ‘Evidencing teaching impact: The future of management education’. Jennifer Bartlett, with QUT colleagues Vicky Browning and Amanda Gudmundsson presented on the “Impacts of executive education”. Jennifer Bartlett, with Judy Matthews (QUT Business School) and Deanna Grant-Smith delivered a workshop on ‘Climate change challenges for management education’.

Paula McDonald presented an invited seminar at Lund University, Sweden on ‘Navigating the prospects and pitfalls of organisational research partnerships’ in December.

Abby Cathcart was invited to present at The University of Queensland, ‘Professional recognition for university teaching: The evidence so far’ in December.


QUT & CAPACITY BUILDINGPaula McDonald presented a range of capacity building activities including a workshop for School of Management staff on ‘Building a successful research career: Juggling excellence and impact’ in February and a seminar for Early Career Researchers and Higher Degree Research students ‘Getting published: The science and the art of writing for publication’ in June. In September Paula McDonald was a panel member at the Authorship and Publication Strategies Session hosted by the QUT Office of Research & Commercialisation.

In May, Abby Cathcart (with Dr Darrall Thompson, UTS) presented at a seminar for QUT staff ‘Reframing assessment: This time it’s personal’.

IN THE MEDIATHE CONVERSATIONMcDonald P, D Oliver and D Grant-Smith. The growing cost of internships could add to inequality. The Conversation, June 20. https://theconversation.com/the-growing-cost-of-internships-could-add-to-inequality-60371

Price R and D Grant-Smith. What evidence is there that internships secure employment? The Conversation, June 17. https://theconversation.com/what-evidence-is-there-that-internships-secure-employment-60716

Riach K, D Grant-Smith and P McDonald. Young people don’t expect to rely on the ‘bank of mum and dad’. The Conversation, October 19. https://theconversation.com/young-people-dont-expect-to-rely-on-the-bank-of-mum-and-dad-study-67228

RADIO INTERVIEWSRobin Price was interviewed by 2SER community radio in Sydney about unpaid internships on 21 June.

Deanna Grant-Smith was interviewed about unpaid internships on ABC Radio National 21 June. Deanna Grant-Smith was also interviewed on 4ZZZ’s Radio Reversal program about the link between social exclusion, homelessness and youth employment on 25 August.

Paula McDonald participated in an ABC radio interview on the costs of unpaid work and internships on 21 June.

BLOGS AND ONLINEDeanna Grant-Smith and Paula McDonald’s research on unpaid work and internships featured in an article for Thomson Reuters Workforce in May. The article was titled: Unpaid internships a ‘race to the bottom’? The research explores the tensions between the potential benefits of WIL and other relevant workplace exposure on the one hand, and on the other, concerns about the increasing financial and personal costs of participation in unpaid work, competition with peers for longer and higher status placements, and equity of access.

https://theconversation.com/the-growing-cost-of-internships-could-add-to-inequality-60371




https://theconversation.com/what-evidence-is-there-that-internships-secure-employment-60716




https://theconversation.com/young-people-dont-expect-to-rely-on-the-bank-of-mum-and-dad-study-67228




EMPLOYABILITY SUPPORT FOR AT-RISK YOUNG JOB SEEKERSThis research project explores young job seekers’ (15-25 years) pathways to sustainable employment. Partly funded by SYC (Job Prospects), historical data was used to map pathways to employment and conduct in depth interviews to explore the stories and personal accounts of young people’s experiences whilst looking for work and maintaining employment. The research found that assessment of the key characteristics for job retention and the interventions required to encourage job retention and long-term employability requires responses that are tailored towards the individual’s circumstances. Effective outcomes are unlikely to follow a straight line sequence of assessment and predictable interventions but rather a ‘toolkit’ of support strategies with the job-seeker at the centre of the picture.

Project members: Katherine Moore, Deanna Grant-Smith, Paula McDonald

UNPAID WORK EXPERIENCEInternships and other forms of unpaid work experience are becoming increasingly common in Australia. Well-designed work experience programs can clearly play an important role in the transition from education to work. At the same time, however, numerous studies have highlighted a range of risks associated with the growth in such arrangements. This project involves a systematic review of the international unpaid work literature. It also explored, through quantitative surveys and qualitative interview data, the prevalence and nature of different forms of unpaid work in Australia. The research highlights the complexities of the practice for individual students and job-seekers and the implications for employers, universities, VET providers, parents and governments.

Project members: Paula McDonald, Deanna Grant-Smith, Dr Damian Oliver (UTS), Professor Andrew Stewart and Dr Anne Hewitt (University of Adelaide)

YOUTH WAGES AND CONDITIONS: AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVEFunded by UNICEF Australia, this project provided an overview of the published international literature concerning issues faced by young workers. It firstly mapped existing literature that addresses youth wage structures in several industrialised countries where such systems exist: Australia, New Zealand, UK, US, Canada, France, Spain, and The Netherlands. Secondly, the project reviewed the broader international literature concerning youth employment, summarising issues of current concern including braches of International Labor Organization (ILO) Conventions 138 and 182 on child labour; work/study balance; working hours, conditions and pay; workplace sexual harassment; health and safety; and opportunities for collective representation.

Project members: Katherine Moore, Paula McDonald

WIL WELLBEING In research funded by the National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education (NCSEHE) and in partnership with the National Association of Field Experience Administrators (NAFEA) and researchers from the QUT Faculties of Education and Health, this project is examining institutional approaches to support to student wellbeing in unpaid practicum experiences.

Project members: Deanna Grant-Smith, Dr Jenna Gillett-Swan (QUT)

MOBILITIES OF CARE, TRANSPORT AND WORKPLACE ACCESSIBILITY This project investigates the mobility of women and children. In particular, the research focuses on the impact of transport accessibility and mobility on employment and other opportunities for women and strategies to address these at both the policy and practice level.

Project members: Deanna Grant-Smith, Dr Natalie Osborne (Griffith University), Dr Peter Edwards (Victoria University of Wellington), Dr Laurel Johnson (University of Queensland)

THE IMPACT OF PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS ON UNIVERSITY TEACHINGThis scholarship of learning and teaching project explores the growing use of the UK Professional Standards Framework to underpin academic development for University teachers. Drawing on case studies in China, Thailand, the UK and Australia the project examines the impact on students, and institutions as well as individual staff members. Funding from the Higher Education Academy and Suranaree University of Technology will support this work in 2017.

Project members: Abby Cathcart

INTERSECTIONS OF TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION, EDUCATION AND RURALITYThis research explores migrant women’s encounters with formal and informal education in new immigration rural destinations in Australia and Northern Ireland. Of interest are the ways in which these encounters shape migrant experiences and aspirations, and inform education migration flows.

Project members: Robyn Mayes, Dr Ruth McAreavey (Queens University, Belfast)

PROJECTS


JUST WORK

THEME

Just work is concerned with the social, economic and cultural inequalities of paid and unpaid employment as they play across national and global scales. Researchers working in this theme examine the lived experiences of work in organisational spaces and how they are experienced in local communities and homes. This work has featured in public symposia, the media, high-quality peer-reviewed journals and consultancy reports, and has been acknowledged as having broad organisational and policy impact.

SYMPOSIUMSSOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF MIGRANT LABOUR SYMPOSIUMThe Work/Industry Futures Research Program hosted a symposium focussing on Social Dimensions of Migrant Labour in February 2016. Robyn Mayes organised this symposium to bring together interstate and local academics working in this area. Representatives from Brisbane NGOs and other civil society groups working with labour migrants and families joined participated. The overarching aim of the symposium was to develop shared insights and a collaborative research agenda. The day gave rise to a collaborative, transdisciplinary research project involving all academic and NGO participants. Titled ‘Temporary mobile labour “at home” in the community: A tale of two towns’, this project offers a comparative multi-disciplinary analysis of the experiences of migrant work(ers) in two very different Queensland towns.


GROWING THE EARLY YEARS WORKFORCE SYMPOSIUMPaula McDonald, together with colleagues from the QUT Faculties of Health and Education and Charles Sturt University, facilitated a one-day symposium in May on Early Childhood Workforce Development Policy. The workshop drew together 76 delegates from across Australia, including ECEC policy officers (Commonwealth and State), peak organisations, service operators and leaders, education and training providers (VET and University) and researchers with workforce expertise. The workshop program utilised conversational learning approaches to interrogate and make sense of the initial findings and explore their implications for policy and practice.

EMERGING THEMES IN RESEARCH ON FLEXIBLE WORK: NEW INSIGHTS ON AN OLD CHALLENGEHosted by KPMG and the Australian Human Rights Commission, Abby Cathcart and Paula McDonald developed and facilitated an academic/practitioner symposium and workshop in October in Sydney. The symposium brought together 10 years of accumulated research on flexible work, including the research of four of Paula and Abby’s Higher Degree Research students. The event was led by Australian Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins and was attended by 32 invited guests from the public, private and non-profit sectors including Fair Work Ombudsman, Natalie James.

JUST WORK IN THE DIGITAL ECONOMY SYMPOSIUMWork/Industry Futures Research program members, together with the Digital Media Research Centre (QUT Creative Industries Faculty) and the Intellectual Property and Innovation Law Research Program (QUT Law Faculty), convened a public event in November addressing some of the emerging economic, legal and socio-cultural issues arising from profound shifts in the employment landscape in Australia and internationally. At the symposium, Deanna Grant-Smith presented on ‘The virtual possibilities of unpaid work and internships’, Paula McDonald presented on ‘The contested terrain of social media in employment: Shifting public/private boundaries’ and Robyn Mayes presented on ‘Working the crowd: Practice, participation, politics’.

INDUSTRY SEMINARS, KEYNOTES AND PUBLIC LECTURESPUBLIC EXTERNAL STAKEHOLDER EVENTSPaula McDonald presented the findings of the research from the review into sexual harassment in Victoria Police to a number of interested organisations. These presentations included a keynote titled ‘Not just bad apples: Sexual harassment in the field of sports medicine’ to the Australian and New Zealand College of Sports Physicians conference on the Gold Coast in February; an invited seminar to 140 senior personnel from Qld Police, Qld Fire Services and Qld Emergency Services Departments in Brisbane in March titled: ‘Sexual harassment in policing: What are the implications for police, fire and emergency services?’; and to the Qld State Crime Command in July titled: ‘Workplace sexual harassment and predatory behaviour in policing’. The research undertaken for the Victoria Police Review in

which Paula participated was also described at length by the new Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Kate Jenkins, in her televised address to the National Press Club in Canberra in April 2016. Internationally, Paula was also invited to present her broader program of research on sexual harassment in June to the United States Equal Opportunity Commission and the Institute for Women’s Policy Research in Washington DC.

Abby Cathcart and Paula McDonald were invited to present the findings of their ongoing research on emerging themes on flexible work arrangements to a range of organisations and national workshops. Themes included in the talks included employee silence, work design, men’s take up of flexible work, and young people’s anticipated careers over the lifecourse. The content also showcased the work of their research students (Sylvia Roux, Penny Williams and Melinda Laundon). Presentations were given to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (Sydney, June); Diversity City Careers and The National Australia Bank (Brisbane, September); Women on the Move Conference (Brisbane, August); and The Australian Human Rights Commission (Sydney, October).

Robyn Mayes was an invited panel member on ‘Leading change: How do we advance women’s opportunities and participation in leadership roles’ at the UN Women National Committee Australia and QUT Business School in August 2016.

In October, Robyn Mayes presented her research at the QUT Women in Research Showcase, hosted by the Women in Leadership Committee. She spoke about the geographical dimensions of understanding power and inequality in labour migration flows.


ACADEMYIn June, Robyn Mayes gave a keynote presentation to the Gender and (Im)mobilities in the Context of Work International Conference in Tromsø, Norway. Her talk examined ‘Embodying rural change: Labour migration and the gendering of everyday (im)mobility’. Robyn was also a Plenary Discussant alongside Professor Linda McDowell (University of Oxford), Professor Marianna Pavlovskaya (CUNY) and Professor Stuart Aitken (San Diego State University). Discussion focused on theoretical and methodological challenges in gender and (im)mobility studies.

In July, Robyn Mayes was a visiting scholar at Queens University Belfast, where she worked with Dr Ruth McAreavey on the development of co-authored publications. She was also an invited speaker at the International and Comparative Perspectives on Australian Labour Migration workshop hosted by the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law, University of Melbourne Law School in July. Her presentation was titled ‘Gendered geographies of temporary labour migration: The case of mining in Australia’.

IN THE MEDIATHE CONVERSATIONMcDonald P, K Thorpe and S Irvine. Early childhood educators rely on families to prop up low income, research finds. The Conversation, November 24. https://theconversation.com/early-childhood-educators-rely-on-families-to-prop-up-low-income-research-finds-69283

McDonald P. Why is sexual harassment in the AFP systemic? And can the culture be changed? The Conversation, August 25. https://theconversation.com/why-is-sexual-harassment-in-the-afp-systemic-and-can-the-culture-be-changed-64306

O’Connor P and P McDonald. Is your employer watching you? Online profiling blurs the boundary of our public and private lives. The Conversation, August 25. https://theconversation.com/is-your-employer-watching-you-online-profiling-blurs-the-boundary-of-our-public-and-private-lives-64300

BLOGS AND ONLINEPaula McDonald’s research (with Sara Charlesworth, RMIT) on atypical sexual harassment (where men harass men and women harass men) was reported in March on a US based sociology blog called Work in Progress: ‘Sexual harassment at work is only about men targeting women’ https://workinprogress.oowsection.org/2016/03/30/sexual-harassment-at-work-is-not-only-about-men-targeting-women-2/, and on the London School of Economics Business Review Blog: ‘Men are targets of sexual harassment at work far more commonly than we assume” http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2016/03/24/men-are-targets-of-sexual-harassment-at-work-far-more-commonly-than-we-assume/

The London School of Economics Business Review Blog and HC Online also reported Paula’s research (with Professor Paul Thompson, University of Sterling, UK, and Dr Peter O’Connor, QUT) on employer profiling “Does profiling employees online overstep the boundaries” http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2016/09/28/does-profiling-employees-online-overstep-the-boundaries/

RADIO INTERVIEWSRobyn Mayes spoke to 4ZZZ ‘Radio Reversal’ program about her migrant labour research, March 3 2016.

Paula McDonald’s research on the employer practice of profiling was reported on Weekend Sunrise and she participated in interviews for ABC Radio National (Eleanor Hall, The World Today); Syn90.7fm (Panorama, Sydney); 2Ser (Sydney); and for a print article in Human Resource Director.

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EFFECTIVE REWARD AND RECOGNITION SYSTEMS Effective reward and recognition systems are essential for organisations to optimise employee engagement and to align employee performance with an organisation’s strategic objectives. The Work/Industry Futures Research Program is partnering with the Suncorp Group on research designed to provide insights into employee’s perceptions of reward and recognition. The research is exploring the relationship between reward and recognition policies, practices and organisational strategy; identifying innovative approaches to reward and recognition in the Suncorp Group; and informing the design and management of future reward and recognition systems.

Project members: Melinda Laundon (QUT PhD student), Abby Cathcart, Paula McDonald

PROJECTS IDENTIFYING EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES TO GROW AND SUSTAIN A PROFESSIONAL EARLY YEARS WORKFORCE Commonwealth legislation specifies that all long day-care centres must have a qualified teacher and minimum staff qualification of Certificate III. Yet high turnover, skill loss and failure to meet existing qualification standards persist. This study identifies the most effective strategies to reduce loss and increase professional engagement in the early years workforce. Partnering with the Department of Education, Training and Employment, C&K and Goodstart Early Learning on an ARC Linkage grant, a national survey of the early years workforce and in-depth interviews with early years educators have been undertaken. A report has summarised the initial study findings and drew on key points from symposium conversations which captured participants’ responses, observations and insights on emerging themes and their implications for ECEC policy and practice.

Project members: Professor Karen Thorpe (QUT Faculty of Health), A/Professor Susan Irvine (QUT Faculty of Education), Paula McDonald, Professor Jo Lunn (QUT Faculty of Education), Professor Jennifer Sumsion (Charles Sturt University)


NOT JUST PART TIME, NOT JUST WOMEN: CHALLENGING THE MYTHS OF FLEXIBLE WORKThis innovative research challenges some of the myths surrounding flexible work. The project reconceptualises flexible work arrangements to explore the diverse and complex ways in which managers and employees customised the terms and conditions of standardised employment arrangements. It has had wide and varied impact on policy development, public debate and organisational practices. Direct beneficiaries of the research include a large finance sector organisation, the Australian Defence Force and several government inquiries. Policy impact is demonstrated through the use of research findings in various policy development round-tables and government inquiries, including in the Productivity Commission’s Workplace Relations Inquiry Report. The research has shaped training and employment practices in finance, community and defence organisations.

Project members: Abby Cathcart, Paula McDonald

WORKPLACE SEXUAL HARASSMENT This ongoing program of research adopts a critical, multi-level examination of the nature of sexual harassment, including the factors that shape how individuals and organisations perceive and respond to the problem as a workplace antidiscrimination issue. New insights and contributions generated through the research include evidence of harasser tactics; a critique of the effectiveness of conciliation as an individualised form of alternative dispute resolution; the nature and causes of ‘atypical’ sexual harassment; and deficiencies in how organisations typically manage complaints. The research has substantially informed public debate and shaped organisational and policy responses. The research has also influenced Australian and international organisations and agencies through requests for expert advice and invitations to address policy-makers and thought leaders.

Project member: Paula McDonald

EVERYDAY SEXISM IN THE WORKPLACEGender inequality remains a persistent and pervasive feature of many organisational environments. However, the extent, nature and location of the problem often remain obscured, making it difficult to develop strategic interventions. The Victorian Male Champions of Change Group commissioned the development of a rigorous survey designed to ascertain how diverse organisations are tracking in relation to everyday sexism—a significant dimension of gender inequality. The survey which was subsequently developed enables the collection of experiential data on a range of sexist behaviours in the workplace. These may include behaviours generally associated with everyday sexism, as well as organisational and bystander responses. Components of the survey, several dimensions of which have not been utilised on a large scale in Australia, can be adapted and replicated across diverse organisational environments.

Project members: Paula McDonald, Robyn Mayes, Melinda Laundon (QUT PhD student)

THE CONTESTED TERRAIN OF SOCIAL MEDIA AT WORKThe use of multi-platform, socially networked, and mobile technologies by both workers and employers is a significant contributing factor to a more flexible labour market. Debates about what is appropriate, normative or legitimate are being played out across popular media, and in courts, companies and employment tribunals. This project involves a survey of 2,000 working-age adults in the UK and Australia which examined three primary sources of contestation: employer profiling, disparaging posts and blogs, and private use of social media during work time. Evidence was found for the characteristics of organisations which have developed social media policies, and the extent and nature of strategies used by employers/managers to monitor and enforce expectations. More broadly, the findings point to wider moves by employers to codify and subsequently impose expanded spheres of behavioural regulation associated with online conduct.

Project members: Paula McDonald, Professor Paul Thompson (Stirling University, UK), Dr Peter O’Connor (QUT Business School)


PROGRAM ACHIEVEMENTSTEACHING AND RESEARCH AWARDSDeanna Grant-Smith was named the 2016 Australian & New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) Early Career Researcher.

Deanna Grant-Smith was awarded the 2016 Best Higher Education Research Publication (Early Career) at the QUT Higher Education Research Best Publication Awards on November 29, 2016, for her co-authored paper with Paula McDonald ‘The trend toward pre-graduation professional work experience for Australian young planners: Essential experience or essentially exploitation’ published in Australian Planner.

Deanna Grant-Smith was short-listed for the Environmental Institute of Australia’s Eric Anderson prize for the best paper in the Australasian Journal of Environmental Management for her paper ‘Implicating animals: The symbolic power of scapegoating animals in marine pollution debates’.

Carol Richards was awarded a 2016 Vice-Chancellor’s Performance Award in the research impact category.

Deanna Grant-Smith was awarded a 2016 Vice-Chancellor’s Performance Award in the excellence in research category.

Paula McDonald joined Robin Price, Robyn Mayes and Deanna Grant-Smith as Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK) through QUT’s Academy of Learning and Teaching (QALT). Her application focused on research supervision. Katherine Moore was recognised as an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK). Abby Cathcart is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Bree Devin is a Fellow.

INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL VISITORS PROGRAMProfessor Tony Dundon (University of Manchester) was a guest of the Work/Industry Futures Research Program in February 2016. His activities included a seminar titled ‘An unequal terrain: Employer capture of the regulatory space for worker voice’ and a workshop for higher degree research students and early career researchers on publishing in high impact journals.

Professor Juliet Roper (Waikato Management School, University of Waikato, New Zealand) visited the Work/Industry Futures Research Program in February 2016. As a result of her visit, Juliet is working with Bree Devin on journal articles and Bree has also been invited as a visitor at University of Waikato. Her activities included: a research seminar to the School of Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations on collaborations between industry, government and universities; brown bag research seminar with Work/Industry Futures members, associates and students; and an academic/industry seminar on leadership and sustainability in organisations.

A/Professor Jennifer Bair (University of Colorado) visited the Work/Industry Futures Research Program in March 2016. Her activities included lectures titled ‘Global supply chains, market-making, and the rise of precarious work’ and ‘Rana Plaza and the fight for safe factories’. A/Professor Bair also presented a postgraduate workshop on theory development.

Professor Andrew Stewart (University of Adelaide) visited the Work/Industry Futures Research Program in August 2016. Andrew delivered a seminar titled ‘Uber and out: Regulating work in the gig economy’.


RESEARCH INCOMENEW AND CONTINUING RESEARCH INCOME IN 2016Members of the Work/Industry and Futures Research Program, through internal and external partnerships, have shared in

more than $1.7M in research income from a range of internal and external sources.

Date Scheme Project Title Recipients Amount

2015-2016 Advance Queensland

Women’s Academic

Fund

Women [in] Planning symposium C Bosman (Griffith)

D Grant-Smith

N Osborne (Griffith)

$2,000

2015-2016 ANZAM PELT Calibrating judgement around

communication standards for

management students through self and

peer assessment

D Grant-Smith

A Cathcart

$5,000

2015-2017 ARC Linkage Identifying effective strategies to grow

and sustain a professional early years

workforce

K Thorpe (QUT Health)

P McDonald

J Lunn (QUT Education)

S Irvine (QUT Education)

$286,000

2013-2016 ARC Future Fellowship Young people and work: Pathways to

industrial citizenship

P McDonald $725,000

2016-2019 Department of

Education and Training

Respond to invitation to offer for DET

Standing Offer Arrangement specifically

around the education to employment

transitions and VET training component of

the offer

R Price

D Grant-Smith

CYRC

Standing offer

arrangement DET

SOA 69205

2016 Federal Department of

Employment

The prevalence of unpaid work and

internships in Australia

P McDonald

D Oliver (UTS)

A Stewart (Uni of Adelaide)

A Hewitt (Uni of Adelaide)

$90,000

(QUT component

$18,000)

2016 Male champions of

change group

Everyday sexism survey project P McDonald

R Mayes

$20,000

2016 National Centre for

Student Equity in Higher

Education

WiL wellbeing: Exploring the impacts of

unpaid practicum on student wellbeing

D Grant-Smith

J Gillett-Swan (QUT

Education)

$32,289

2013-2017 Norwegian Research

Council Grant

Frogs, fuel, finance or food? Cultures,

values, ethics, arguments and justifications

in the management of agricultural land

H Bjørkhaug (Centre for

Rural Research in Norway)

C Richards

et al.

$1,800,000

(QUT component

$16,000)

2016-2020 Queensland Tourism

and Events, QUT

ICA Conference 2020, Gold Coast

Australia

T Flew (QUT Creative

Industries)

J Bartlett

$300,000

2016 UNICEF Australia Youth wages and conditions: An

international review

K Moore

P McDonald

$9,000

2016-2018 SYC Commercial

Research

Evaluation of a job coaching model for

at-risk young job-seekers

P McDonald

K Moore (QUT Business)

$104,000

2016 SYC Commercial

Research

Jobseeker employability P McDonald

D Grant-Smith

K Moore (QUT Business)

$25,000

2016-2017 Australian Meat

Processor Corporation

Social impact study of red meat

processing in Australia

K Johnston (QUT Business)

A Lane (QUT Business)

A Beatson (QUT Business)

B Devin

$92,000


ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP SERVICE TO THE ACADEMY

Organisation Position Member

ANU Press (Higher Educational Research) Member, Editorial Committee A Cathcart

Asia Pacific Journal of Teacher Education Special Issue Editor 2017: Pre-service teacher

development (with J Gillett-Swan)

D Grant-Smith

Australia & New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) 2016 ANZAM Conference Organising Committee D Grant-Smith

Australian Planner Special Issue Editor 2017: Women in Planning (with C

Bosman and N Osborne)

D Grant-Smith

Journal of Learning Design Special Issue Editor 2016: Management pedagogies

(with T Donnett)

D Grant-Smith

Austrian Science Fund Expert Review C Richards

International Rural Sociology Association Elected Council Member (2012-2020) C Richards

William Angliss College, Melbourne Expert Academic Advisory Committee, Food Systems

and Gastronomy Program

C Richards

Alliance Manchester Business School, University of

Manchester

International academic advisory board member for

the Work, Employment and Equalities Institute

P McDonald

Springer book and monograph series Invited book and monograph series editor on work,

employment, organisational studies and HRM

P McDonald

Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education Special Issue Editor: Rural Education: Social and

Cultural Perspectives (with B Pini and L Rodriguez)

R Mayes

Institute of Australian Geographers (IAG) 2017 IAG national annual conference organising

committee

R Mayes

Organisation Position Member

Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) Expert Reviewer A Cathcart

Asia Pacific PR Educators Network Australian Representative J Bartlett

Governance Institute of Australia Committee Member J Bartlett

International Communication Association Internationalisation representative for PR

Division

J Bartlett

International Communication Association Aubrey Fisher Mentorship Award Committee J Bartlett

Public Relations Institute of Australia Fellow J Bartlett

Higher Education Academy (HEA) (UK) International Accreditor (one of two in Australia)

and HEA Research Consultant

A Cathcart

International Communication Association Invited Organizational Communication mentor B Devin

Women in Planning Symposium 2016 Co-Convenor (with C Bosman and N Osborne) D Grant-Smith

Immigrant Women’s Support Service Management Committee Member R Mayes

Global Supply Chain Paper and SI development group, University of

Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Center

Member R Mayes

Department of Industry, Innovation and Science (leading the

Australian Government’s implementation of the transnational

Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative and Standards).

Australian Extractive Industries Transparency

Initiative National Multi-Stakeholder Group, civil

society advisor.

R Mayes

Prestige Grant Programme (postdoctoral research), administered by

the Research Executive Agency of the European Commission.

Expert grant reviewer R Mayes

Independent Review into Sex Discrimination, Sexual Harassment

including Predatory Behaviour in Victoria Police 2015-17

Academic member of expert panel P McDonald

Hong Kong Grant Council Grant reviewer P McDonald

Australian Human Rights Commission Expert Panel on Sexual Harassment on

Australian University Campuses

P McDonald

International Labor Organization/ASEAN Expert panel member R Price

SERVICE TO THE PUBLIC AND EXTERNAL STAKEHOLDERS


SERVICE TO QUT

Position Member

Canberra Academic Director, QUT Graduate School of Business, Academic Coordinator, Executive Masters Complex Project Leadership, Graduate School of BusinessAcademic Coordinator, Public Sector Management Program, Graduate School of Business

J Bartlett

Head, QUT Academy of Learning and Teaching (QALT)Co-Director, Teaching Advantage Program for PhD students and Teaching Advantage: Global– Curriculum Design, Teaching, AssessingMember, Higher Education Research Network (HERN) ExecutiveElected Member, University Academic Board [2017 onwards]

A Cathcart

Co-ordinator, AMPR newsletter for industry and academic partners (with Helen O’Donnell)TA Reviewer, QALT

B Devin

Program Co-Leader, Children & Youth Research Centre, Rights & Welfare Program (2014-2016)Member, Higher Education Research Network (HERN) Executive TA Reviewer, QALT Co-Convenor, School of Management HDR Student Café (with Anna Wiewiora)

D Grant-Smith

Member, QUT Business School Equity Committee QUT Business School Faculty Research Ethics AdvisorReviewer, QALT Mentor, China Scholarship Program Selection Panel Member, 2017 QUT-Lord Mayor’s Multicultural Roundtable Scholarship (LMMRT).Faculty Representative, University Research and Innovation Committee’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research Working Party.

R Mayes

Member, Research Degrees Committee (2015-16)Program Co-Leader, Children & Youth Research Centre, Rights & Welfare Program (2014-16)Elected Member, QUT Council [2017-2020]

P McDonald

School of Management representative, QUT Business School Faculty Academic Board R Price

HDR Coordinator, School of Management Co-Chair, School of Management Research Committee Member, PG Research Committee, Business School Member, Masters of Philosophy Working Party

C Richards


HIGHER DEGREE RESEARCH STUDENTS

“Program members supervised 24 Masters by Research and PhD students in 2016. These students, who are a valued part of our research program, are studying a diverse range of work/industry topics and many draw on interdisciplinary perspectives to address complex problems in real-world settings.”


HIGHER DEGREE STUDENTS 2016PHD STUDENTS

Student Research Topic Supervisors

Rachael Cole-

Hawthorne

Maintaining a responsibility to place: Indigenous place values in statutory land-

use planning

D Low Choy (Griffith); S Serrão-

Neumann (Griffith); D Grant-Smith; D Jones (Deakin)

Merrilyn Delporte Silent voices: A study in the use of narrative to raise resources for asylum seeker

advocacy

J Bartlett; B Devin; C Hatcher

Gabrielle Jess Minding my own business: A multiple capitals perspective exploring Australian

small business survival of natural hazards

D Grant-Smith; R Price; A Mehta

Thomas Keenan Aesthetic knowledge in decision making in complex projects J Bartlett; A Pisarski

Melinda Laundon The perceived fairness of employee reward systems at a large finance

organisation

A Cathcart; P McDonald

Joseph Macharia Digital technologies in Kenyan farm management: Entrepreneurship from a

distance

C Richards; S Salunke

Paolo Marinelli Governance and power in Australian Federalism: The case of independent

federal transport regulators

D Grant-Smith; R Mayes

Katherine Moore Disability employment practices in the Australian retail sector P McDonald; J Bartlett

Ellen Nielsen Employability strategies of graduates in the creative industries R Bridgstock; P McDonald

Emiko Nozu Exploring innovation capability in a digital servicescape: A university education

case

S Matthews (AMPR); R Price

Samantha Parades The value of local fisheries for the coastal community and tourism L Coglan; S Pascoe; C Richards

Sylvia Roux Customising work through social exchange: An examination of how manager

responses to requests for flexible work impact on work-home interaction and

work engagement

A Cathcart; P McDonald; P O’Connor

Raymond Stokke The management of innovation: An investigation of public advisory services R Price; S Sawang

Penny Williams Take it from the top: Shaping supervisor support for flexible work arrangements A Cathcart; P McDonald

MASTERS BY RESEARCH STUDENTSStudent Research Topic Supervisors

Kirsty Cranitch Occupational identity: shaping early childhood educator sector attraction,

retention and training intentions

P McDonald; D Grant-Smith

Carla Gonzalez-

Zlatar

Understanding how and why mining companies engage with universities:

The Chilean experience


Kieran Gregory Discourses of stakeholder responsibilisation in NSW Fisheries Management C Richards; D Grant-Smith

Glenn Hedges Costs and benefits of sustainability in infrastructure delivery: A construction

industry perspective

C Richards; B Devin; D Hood

Gabrielle Jess Enforceable undertakings: Perceptions of organisational justice R Price; G Maconachie

Choity Jones The dark side of fast fashion: The ways organisations use CSR to respond

to institutional pressures from a spillover crisis.

B Devin; A Mehta; A Beatson

Margaret Lyons Corporate social responsibility in junior and mid-tier Australian resources

companies operating in developing nations: Beyond the public relations

offensive

J Bartlett; P McDonald

Dominic Piacun Fostering organisational citizenship behaviour for the environment: A case

study of employee discretionary green behaviour

C Newton; D Grant-Smith

Elizabeth Pyle The wickedness of ‘disadvantage’: Policy discourses in Australian

Indigenous affairs as a ‘wicked’ management problem


Jane Tsakissiris The role of professional identity and self interest in the career choices in

the emerging ICT workforce

D Grant-Smith; P McDonald

Paul Woods The role of technology-enabled work portability in work-life balance P McDonald; G Murphy


HIGHER DEGREE RESEARCH STUDENT COMPLETIONSRachael Cole-Hawthorne was awarded her PhD titled ‘Maintaining a responsibility to place: Indigenous Place Values in Statutory Land-Use Planning’.

Gabrielle Jess was awarded her Masters by Research titled ‘Enforceable undertakings: Perceptions of organisational justice’. Gabrielle has gone on to undertake a PhD with an APA Scholarship.

Thomas Keenan was awarded his PhD titled ‘Aesthetic knowledge in decision making in complex projects’.

Margaret Lyons was awarded her Masters by Research titled ‘Corporate social responsibility in junior and mid-tier Australian resources companies operating in developing nations: Beyond the public relations offensive’.

Katherine Moore was awarded her PhD titled ‘Disability employment practices in the Australian retail sector’.

Raymond Stokke was awarded his PhD titled ‘The management of innovation: An investigation of public business advisory processes’.

Jane Tsakissiris was awarded her Masters by Research titled ‘The role of professional identity and self interest in the career choices in the emerging ICT workforce’. Jane has gone on to undertake a PhD with APA Scholarship in the Faculty of Education.

HIGHER DEGREE RESEARCH STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTSGabrielle Jess was awarded Best Postgraduate Paper for her paper ‘Fairness in enforceable undertakings: Comparing stakeholder voices’ at the AIRAANZ 2016 Conference.

Melinda Laundon and Penny Williams were invited to speak on Flexible Work and Employment Practices at Old Government House to commemorate the anniversary of the lifting of the marriage ban for women in the Commonwealth Public Service in 1966. Melinda and Penny were also interviewed on the 4EB Women’s Profile show. Their 45 minute interview was on their research into flexible work.

Penny Williams was invited to attend and share her research findings on strategic HRM and flexible work at an industry roundtable in June on the future of work hosted by Presence of IT. Attendees included approximately 15 senior executives and HR personnel from companies such as Rio Tinto, Mater, Aurizon, QR and BCC. In addition, Penny had her first paper accepted for publication in the Asia-Pacific, titled Journal of Human Resources (Executive-level support for flexible work arrangements in a large insurance organisations), and was shortlisted for a ST★RS sessional teaching Award. Her showcase presentation was titled ‘Speaking the language: cross-cultural presentation skills for international students’.

Paolo Marinelli published a book chapter on the role of transport in achieving employment equity with supervisor Deanna Grant-Smith as part of the Greenleaf UN Principles of Responsible Management Education Series.

Sylvia Roux was awarded an Emerging Leaders Grant from the Centre for Workplace Leadership at The University of Melbourne, in what was a very competitive field of applicants. She provided three presentation training sessions and a 25 minute speaking slot at the ‘Future of Work: People, Place, Technology Conference’ in April 2016.

Jane Tsakissiris presented her Masters research in an Instant Fame short presentation at the Australian Council of Computer Education Conference in September.

Melinda Laundon and Penny Williams were recognised as Associate Fellows of the Higher Education Academy (UK) through QUT’s Academy of Learning and teaching (QALT).

Gabrielle Jess, with Robin Price had her first paper accepted for publication in Safety Science, titled ‘Fairness in enforeable undertakings comparing stakeholder voices’.


PUBLICATIONS BOOK CHAPTERSBartlett J, D Grant-Smith & G Bartlett (in press) Governance. In CR Scott, L Lewis, J Barker, J Keyton, T Kuhn & P Turner (eds) Organizational Communication Encyclopedia. Wiley Blackwell: Chichester.

Bartlett J & J Pallas (2016) Accreditation. In C Carrol (ed) The Sage Encyclopedia of Corporate Reputation. Sage: New York.

Bjørkhaug H, J Vik & C Richards (in press) Changes in the Norwegian Agri-food System: The chicken game. In M Miele, V Higgins, H Bjørkhaug & M Truninger (eds) Rural Change and Global Processes. Bingley: Emerald Insight.

Cameron J & D Grant-Smith (in press) The right to contribute: The dynamics and dilemmas of community engagement in the Australian context. In N Sipe & K Vella (eds) Routledge Handbook of Australian Urban and Regional Planning. Routledge.

Grant-Smith D & J Gillett-Swan (in press) Managing the personal impact of practicum: Examining the experiences of Graduate Diploma in Education students. In J Nuttall, A Kostogriz, M Jones & J Martin (eds) Teacher Education Policy & Practice: Evidence of Impact, Impact of Evidence. Springer.

Grant-Smith D, L Johnson & P Edwards (in press) Putting children in their place on public transport: managing mobilities in the child-friendly city. In: C Silver, R Freestone & C Demaziere (eds) Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning: Right to the City. Routledge.

Grant-Smith D & S Mayere (in press) Doing planning and being a planner: Employment and education challenges for the Australian planning profession. In N Sipe & K Vella (eds) Routledge Handbook of Australian Urban and Regional Planning. Routledge.

Grant-Smith D, N Osborne & P Marinelli (2016) Transport and workplace accessibility: Routes to improved equity. In PF Flynn, H Haynes & MA Kilgour (eds.) Overcoming Challenges to Gender Equality in the Workplace. UN Principles of Responsible Management Education Series, Greenleaf Publishing.


Johnson L & D Grant-Smith (in press) King George Glare: Reflections on the (re)design of public space in central Brisbane, Australia. In S Shlipchenko (ed) Public Spaces and Its (Dis)Contents. National University of Kyiv-Mohyla, Kiev.

Mayes R, C Richards & M Woods (in press) (Re)Assembling neoliberal logics in the service of climate justice: Fuzziness and perverse consequences in the fossil fuel divestment assemblage. In V Higgins & W Larner (eds) Assembling Neoliberalism: Expertise, Practices, Subjects. Palgrave MacMillan.

Osborne N, D Grant-Smith & E Morgan (2016) Grassroots and guerrillas: Radical and insurgent planning responses for community resilience. In M Companion & M Chaiken (eds) Responses to Disasters and Climate Change: Understanding Vulnerability and Fostering Resilience. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis.

Pini B, P McDonald & J Bartlett (2016) Marketing and elite schooling: Stories behind the image. In J Moss & B Pini (eds) Visual Research Methods in Education Research. Palgrave.

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES Boyer K, R Mayes, & B Pini (accepted 2016) Discourses of (im)mobility and the maintenance of gender dualisms. Mobilities.

Campbell I & R Price (2016) Precarious work and precarious workers: Towards an improved conceptualisation. Economic and Labour Relations Review, 27(3), 214-332.

Clenndenning J, WH Dressler & C Richards (2016) Food justice or food sovereignty? Understanding the rise of urban food movements in the USA. Agriculture and Human Values, 33(1), 165–177.

Devin B & C Richards (2016) Food waste, power and corporate social responsibility in the Australian food supply chain. Journal of Business Ethics, online ahead of print, 1-12. DOI:10.1007/s10551-016-3181-z.

Dixon J & C Richards (2016) On food security and alternative food networks: Understanding and performing food security in the context of urban bias. Agriculture and Human Values, 33(1), 191–202.

Grant-Smith D & P McDonald (2016) The trend toward pre-graduation professional work experience for Australian young planners: Essential experience or essentially exploitation. Australian Planner, 53(2), 65–72.

Grant-Smith D & N Osborne (2016) Dealing with discomfort: How the unspeakable confounds wicked planning problems. Australian Planner, 53(1), 46–53.

Grant-Smith D, N Osborne & L Johnson (2016) The policy challenges of combining mobilities of care and commuting: An Australian perspective. Community, Work & Family, online ahead of print, 1–10. DOI:10.1080/13668803.2016.1202194.

Grant-Smith D & N Osborne (accepted 2016). A column of one’s own: Putting women on the pages of the pages of the RAPI Journal, 1977-1982. Australian Planner.

Greer DA, A Cathcart & L Neale (2016) Helping doctoral students teach: Transitioning to early career academia through cognitive apprenticeship. Higher Education Research & Development, 35(4), 712–726.

Jess G & Price R (2017) Fairness in enforceable undertakings: Comparing stakeholder voices. Safety Science, 94, 1-9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2016.12.024

Lane A & J Bartlett (2016) It’s a nice idea in theory: Why dialogic principles don’t make it in practice. International Journal of Communication, 10, 1–21.

Lyons M, J Bartlett & P McDonald (2016) Corporate social responsibility in junior and mid-tier resources companies operating in developing nations. Beyond the public relations offensive. Resources Policy, 50, 204–213.

Mayes, R (accepted 2016) “We’re sending you back”: Temporary labour migration, agency and belonging Migration, Mobility and Displacement.

Mayes, R & R MacAreavy (accepted 2016) Rurality and the education of transnational labour migrants: Case studies from Australia and Ireland. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education.

McDonald P & S Charlesworth (2016) Workplace sexual harassment at the margins. Work, Employment & Society, 30(1), 118–134.

McDonald P, S Charlesworth & T Graham (2016) Action or inaction: Bystander intervention in workplace sexual harassment. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 27(5), 548–566.

McDonald P & PI Thompson (2016) Social media(tion) and the reshaping of public/private boundaries in employment relations. International Journal of Management Reviews, 18(1), 69–84.

McDonald P, P Thompson & P O’Connor (2016) Profiling employees online: Shifting public/private boundaries. Human Resource Management Journal, 26(4), 541–556.

Matthews T & D Grant-Smith (2016) Managing ensemble-scale built heritage conservation in the Shandon Architectural Conservation Area in Cork, Ireland. Cities, online ahead of print, 1–7. DOI:10.1016/j.cities.2016.10.004

Moore K, P McDonald & J Bartlett (accepted 2016) The social legitimacy of disability inclusive human resource practices: The case of a large retail organisation. Human Resource Management Journal.

Nickson D, R Price, H Baxter-Reid & S Hurrell (2016) Skill requirements in retail work: The case of high-end fashion retailing. Work, Employment and Society, 1-17, online ahead of print, DOI: 10.1177/0950017016672791

Pini, B, Mayes R, and Rodriguez Castro, L. (accepted 2016) Imagining, experiencing and researching rural education. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education.


Riach K, P McDonald & D Grant-Smith (2016) Financial timescapes: Towards a temporal understanding of young people’s financial capability. Sociology, online ahead of print, 1–16. DOI:10.1177/0038038516668125.

Richards C, U Kjærnes & J Vik (2016) Food security in welfare capitalism: Comparing social entitlements to food in Australia and Norway. Journal of Rural Studies, 43, 61–70.

Richards C & K Lyons (2016) The new corporate enclosures: Plantation forestry, carbon markets and the limits of financialised solutions to the climate crisis. Land Use Policy, 56, 209–216.

Richards C & V Higgins (2016) Trade Liberalisation and Australian Biosecurity: Opportunities and Challenges under the ‘Shared Responsibility’ Approach, Farm Policy Journal, Spring 13(3), 1–9.

Skinner N, A Cathcart & B Pocock (2016) To ask or not to ask? Investigating workers’ flexibility requests and the phenomenon of discontented non-requesters. Labour & Industry, 26(2), 103–119.

Smith N & P McDonald (2016) Facilitating sustainable professional part-time work: A question of design? Journal of Management & Organisation, 22(2), 205–223.

Townsend K, P McDonald & A Cathcart (2016) Managing flexible work arrangements in small not-for-profit firms: The influence of organisational size, financial constraints and workforce characteristics. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, online ahead of print, DOI:10.1080/09585192.2015.1136671.

Williams P, P McDonald & A Cathcart (accepted 2016) Executive-level support for flexible work arrangements. Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, online ahead of print, 1-19. doi:10.1111/1744-7941.12125.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONSBartlett J (2016) Multiple voices shaping CSR meaning and practice. European Group of Organization Studies. 5-9 July, Naples.

Bartlett J (2016) Leadership and Issues Management panel. PR Barcelona 2016, 29-30 June, Barcelona, Spain.

Bartlett J (2016) Teaching Top Gun to narrate the organisation. PR Barcelona 2016, 29-30 June, Barcelona, Spain.

Bosman C, D Grant-Smith & N Osborne (2016) Highlights of the past and visions of the future of women in planning. Australian & New Zealand Association of Planning Schools (ANZAPS) Conference, 28-30 October, Sydney.

Cathcart A, D Greer & L Neale (2016) Into the Academy? The hopes and dreams of doctoral candidates who want academic careers and the structural and cultural barriers to achieving them. Quality in Postgraduate Research, 20-22 April, Adelaide.

Devin B & C Richards (2016) Shifting responsibility while still being ‘socially responsible’: Food waste and power in a supply chain. International Communication Association Conference, 9-13 June, Fukuoka.

Gillett-Swan J & D Grant-Smith (2016) Managing the personal impact of practicum for pre-service teacher quality of life. Australian Teacher Education Association Conference, 3-6 July, Ballarat.

Grant-Smith D (2016) Reflection on higher education research and the early career academic. Higher Education Research Network Symposium: Putting higher education research into practice at QUT. 29 November, Brisbane.

Grant-Smith D & J Gillett-Swan (2016) Beyond the curriculum: External factors affecting student placements. National Association of Field Experience Administrators, 13-16 July, Melbourne.


Grant-Smith D & J Gillett-Swan (2016) Exploring WIL wellbeing through the practicum experiences of pre-service teachers. European Conference on Educational Research, 22-26 August, Dublin.

Grant-Smith D & N Osborne (2016) How policy documents (re)produce the cycling citizen. World Planning School Congress, 3-8 July, Rio de Janeiro.

Hanna J & B Devin (2016) Creating shared value vs. corporate social responsibility: Revolution or rhetoric? International Communication Association Conference, 9-13 June, Fukuoka.

Jess G & R Price (2016) Fairness in enforceable undertakings: Comparing stakeholder voices. Association of Industrial Relations Academics in Australia & New Zealand (AIRAANZ) Conference, 10-12 February, Sydney.

McDonald P, A Cathcart & D Grant-Smith (2016) Customised working arrangements in the Australian Defence Force: Challenging the myths. Association of Industrial Relations Academics in Australia & New Zealand (AIRAANZ) Conference, 10-12 February, Sydney.

McDonald P & D Grant-Smith (2016). The role of unpaid work in expanding the foundation of employability. RAPSE Conference on Changing labour markets: Challenges for welfare and labour market policy, Vaxjo, 7-9 December, Sweden.

McDonald P & P Thompson (2016) Profiling employees online: Paradoxes of privacy in organisation life. International Labour Process Conference, 4-6 April, Berlin.

Moore K, P McDonald & D Grant-Smith (2016) Cracks in the pathway to employment: Structural barriers affecting at-risk youth. Long Term Unemployment Conference, 1-2 December, Brisbane.

Mayes R (2016) Comings and goings: gendered geographies of bodily mobility in the mining industry. Royal Geographical Society and Institute of British Geographers Annual International Conference, 27 August–3 September, London.


INDUSTRY REPORTS Grant-Smith D, A Cathcart & P Williams (2016) Enhancing management students’ professional presentation skills through self and peer assessment: Calibrating judgement using the 3D presentation framework. Australian & New Zealand Academy of Management and QUT Business School.

Grant-Smith D, J Gillett-Swan & R Chapman (2016) WiL Wellbeing: Exploring the impacts of unpaid practicum on student wellbeing. National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education and QUT Business. School.

Moore K, D Grant-Smith & P McDonald (2016) Sticking together: Supporting the employability of Australian Youth. Report prepared for SYC and Job Prospects. Brisbane, Australia: Queensland University of Technology. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/101728/3/101728.pdf

Moore K, D Grant-Smith & P McDonald (2016) Addressing the Employability of Australian Youth. Brisbane, Australia: Queensland University of Technology. Available from http://eprints.qut.edu.au/101728/

McDonald P, R Mayes & M Laundon (2016) Everyday sexism survey: Report to Victoria’s Male Champions of Change (MCC) Group. Brisbane, Australia: October.

Oliver D, P McDonald, A Stewart & A Hewitt (2016) Unpaid work experience in Australia: Prevalence, nature and impact. Report prepared for the Commonwealth Department of Employment. Sydney: University of Technology Sydney: December. https://docs.employment.gov.au/system/files/doc/other/unpaid_work_experience_report_-_december_2016.pdf

Price R, B Ewing & G Sarra (2016) Footprints to Pathways. Report prepared for the Department of Transport and Main Roads (DTMR). Brisbane, Australia: Queensland University of Technology.

Thorpe K, S Irvine S, P McDonald, J Lunn & J Sumison (2016) Money, love and identity: Initial findings from the National ECEC Workforce Study. Report following a national symposium (May). Brisbane, Australia: Queensland University of Technology. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/101622/1/Brief_report_ECEC_Workforce_Development_Policy_Workshop_final.pdf

OTHER PUBLICATIONSCathcart A (2016) Conversation catalysts. Research based video published on Youtube for the wider higher education community. http://doctoralteaching.org/resources/conversation-catalysts/

Mayes R (2016) Book review Out of place (Gwalia): Occasional essays on Australian regional communities and built environments in transition. Australian Geographer, online ahead of print, pp1–2.

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