The Future of Work Lab

Be a Partner

Partnering with The Future of Work Lab offers an interdisciplinary network of academics, students, and alumni from The University of Melbourne, to support the generation and delivery of new knowledge and evidence-based, multidimensional solutions for equitable work futures.

To partner with us contact futureofwork-info@unimelb.edu.au

Publications

Reports and Submissions​

Ghin, P, & Ainsworth, S 2022, 'THE GREAT MIGRATION: Leaving our Cities for the Regions Part III: Understanding the current and latent entrepreneurialism of metro-regional movers', Future of Work Lab (PDF)

Ghin, P, & Ainsworth, S 2022, 'THE GREAT MIGRATION: Leaving our Cities for the Regions Part II: Current working patterns, future work perspectives', Future of Work Lab  (PDF)

Ghin, P, & Ainsworth, S 2022, 'THE GREAT MIGRATION: Leaving our Cities for the Regions Part I: Internal Migration Patterns, Motivations and Experiences.', Future of Work Lab (PDF).

Rueda, LA,  Rouse, LA,  Cheong, M & Ruppanner, L 2022, 'Mapping the Digital Divide in Victoria', Future of Work Lab (PDF)

Ryan, L, Njoto, S, Rouse, LA, Rueda, LA & Squires, S 2021, 'Inquiry into Economic Equity for Victorian Women', Future of Work Lab (PDF)

Internship Reports

2021

Mannix, K 'The future of Australia’s nursing workforce:COVID-19 and burnout among nurses' (PDF)

Marchant, C 'Man Overboard: Overcoming Gender Stereotypes to Increase Women’s Leadership and Gender Parity onBoards' (PDF)

Tan, C 'Untapped Potential?: Using Technology to Reduce Women’s Domestic Labour Burdens' (PDF)

Lawrie, A 'Using Human Resources Policy to Promote Age Diversity' (PDF)

Martine, A 'What’s Left Unsaid: Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) as a Domestic Violence Screening Tool' (PDF)

Chu, SK 'COVID-19 Infodemic: Empowering Australia against infodemic' (PDF)

Yang, O 'Critical Reflection on Queer Rights Discourse & Determinants of Queer Rights Violations in Mainland China' (PDF)

Gunawansa, A 'Exploring the challenges that women seeking asylum face in gaining employment in Australia' (PDF)

Jenkins, K 'The Gendered Costs of Childcare: A feminist analysis of the effects of Australia’s early childhood education and care system on women’s inequality in the workforce and beyond (PDF)

Dangar, K 'Women, policy and the STEM pipeline: Bridging the gap between tertiary education and the workforce for female STEM students' (PDF)

Thorp, E 'Improving stimulus after COVID-19: What can be learnt from the Australian fiscal response?' (PDF)

Journal Articles and Books

Ainsworth, S & Knox, A 2022, '"A bridge too far?” Ideas, employment relations and policy-making about the future of work', Industrial Relations, vol 61, pp. 68–89. https://doi.org/10.1111/irel.12295