Centre Staff
Research Fellows
Dr Bona Anna
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dr Catherine Bishop
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dr Catherine Bishop is the recipient of an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) for a project titled: ‘A history of Australian businesswomen since 1880’, being conducted in the Centre for Workforce Futures at Macquarie University. She received her PhD from the Australian National University in 2012, and is the author of Minding Her Own Business: Colonial Businesswomen in Sydney (NewSouth, 2015), which won the 2016 Ashurst Business Literature Prize. She has worked in several universities, most recently as a Kathleen Fitzpatrick Junior Research Fellow with the University of Sydney’s ARC Laureate Research Program in International History, and has published widely on the history of gender and business. She received a New Zealand History Trust Award in 2016 for research that resulted in her second monograph Women Mean Business: Enterprise in Colonial New Zealand (Otago University Press, 2019).
She is also co-editing a collection about nineteenth century global female entrepreneurship (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and was a Visiting Fellow at Northumbria University in the UK in 2019. Her other research interests include the biography of an Australian female missionary, for which she was the 2016 State Library of New South Wales Religious History Fellow, and the history of two Cold War World Youth Forums in the USA and the UK.
Dr Marika Franklin
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Marika Franklin commenced as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Workforce Futures at Macquarie University in 2020 working on the Australian research Council Discovery funded project ‘Demographic and social dimensions of migrant ageing and wellbeing in Australia’, being led by Professor Taksa. She has worked as a qualitative researcher in several universities, most recently as a Research Associate within the Centre for Social Research in Health at UNSW Sydney, and Research Associate and Casual Academic in the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney. Her work examines the intersection between sociology and health, particularly how social interactions and social context enable people to live well with chronic conditions. As an early career researcher, Marika has published on self-management support for people with chronic conditions in Social Science and Medicine, Qualitative Health Research and Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine.
Marika is currently working on an ARC DP project examining the deterioration of health and well-being in migrant communities in Australia over time. By consolidating and analysing a wide range of quantitative data and conducting qualitative fieldwork among nine migrant groups in Australia, the project aims to produce new estimates of healthy life expectancy and investigate how social capital sustains health throughout the ageing process. The results can inform public policies for positive health outcomes and better allocation of resources and services for migrants.
Dr Guogui Huang
Research Fellow
Guogui Huang commenced as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Workforce Futures at Macquarie University in 2020 working on the Australian research Council Discovery funded project ‘Demographic and social dimensions of migrant ageing and wellbeing in Australia’, being led by Professor Taksa. He is currently completing his PhD and he assisted in the analysis of the OECD Diversity And Human Resource Management Survey conducted with the members of the Australian Human Resource institute.
Dr Louise Prowse
Research Fellow
Dr Louise Prowse commenced research within the Centre for Workplace Futures in 2021. Her current research ‘From Pin Money to Side Hustle: A history of side-earning since 1900’ focuses on rural women in Australia and is part of Dr Catherine Bishop’s Australian Research Council DECRA research ‘A history of Australian businesswomen since 1880’.
Louise received her PhD from the University of Sydney in 2016 for which she was a finalist for the Rita and John Cornforth Medal. In her thesis, she explored how historical identities of country towns have been constructed and utilized through regional economies with a focus on tourism, heritage and cultural landscapes. She has held lecture positions at the University of Sydney, New York University and Charles Sturt University and has worked in research at the University of Sydney and the University of Wollongong, as well as for independent clients and institutions for publications on heritage, local history and organisational histories. Louise also works in strategic government policy, most recently in heritage policy development, and has worked at both state and federal level.
As an early career researcher, Louise has published in the fields of tourism, heritage, intersections of Aboriginal and local histories, and conceptions of rurality in Australian culture.