Core Members

María Florencia Amigó

Academic Director of PACE, Faculty of Arts

Areas of Expertise:

• Child labour in the developing world
• Higher education, employability and work-based learning
• Academic work and identities
• Migrant labour
• Future of work
• Youth and employment

Dr Matthew Bailey

Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations

Areas of Expertise:

• Retail history
• Urban history
• Consumerism
• Disruption, innovation and adoption in historical contexts
• Business knowledge transfer

Associate Professor Nikola Balnave

Department of Management, Macquarie Business School

Areas of Expertise:

• Business and labour history
• Co-operatives
• Industrial relations
• Welfarism

Dr Sarah Bankins

Department of Marketing, Macquarie Business School

Areas of Expertise:

• Employee-employer psychological contracts
• Artificial intelligence and emerging technologies at work
• Future of work
• Innovation champions

Associate Professor Chris Baumann

Department of Marketing, Macquarie Business School

Areas of Expertise:

• Customer loyalty
• Competitiveness
• Ethnic marketing
• Brand management
• Marketing & management education

Dr Rohan Best

Department of Economics, Macquarie Business School

Areas of Expertise:

• Unemployment across Australian regions
• Renewable energy
• Household and business energy use

Dr Catherine Bishop

Centre For Workforce Futures, Macquarie Business School

Areas of Expertise:

• History of Australian and New Zealand businesswomen
• 20^th century businesswomen’s associations
• World Youth Forum history
• Biography

Associate Professor Yvonne Breyer

Macquarie Business School

Areas of Expertise:

• Global online learning
• Digital technologies in education
• Management education
• Sustainability education
• Applied linguistics

Dr. Andrew Burridge

Department of Geography and Planning

Area of Expertise:

• Refugees and asylum seekers
• Migration and mobility
• Refugee settlement and economic participation
• International borders and boundaries
• Precarity

Dr Frances Chang

Department of Management, Macquarie Business School

Areas of Expertise:

• Entrepreneurship
• Small and medium-sized enterprises
• Social networks
• Innovation and new venture management
• International entrepreneurs

Dr Meena Chavan

Department of Management, Macquarie Business School

Areas of Expertise:

• International Business Strategy and Management
• Strategic Management
• Cross Cultural Management
• Change Management
• Diversity Management
• Small Business & Entrepreneurship
• Sustainability and the Environment
• Operations Management
• Quality Management

Professor Francesco Chirico

Department of Management, Macquarie Business School

Areas of Expertise:

• Resource management
• Innovation
• Acquisition and divestiture strategies
• Family firms

Professor Jean-Philippe Deranty

Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts

Areas of Expertise:

• The case for and against work
• Paradoxes of equality
• The iconography of political concepts

Dr Marika Franklin

Centre for Workforce Futures, Macquarie University

Areas of Expertise:

• Bourdieu’s theory of practice, applied to health
• Person-centred care
• Chronic conditions
• Self-management, self-management support and goal-setting
• Patient-professional interactions
• Siblings of a young person with cancer, mental illness, or disability
• Migrant Ageing
• Qualitative Research

Professor Fei Guo

Department of Management, Macquarie Business School

Areas of Expertise:

• Demographic change and migration
• Skilled and student migration and labour market
• Social stratification of migrant communities
• Demography of contemporary China
• Fertility behaviour of migrants
• Population and housing markets
• Internationalisation of highly skilled professionals

Honorary Professor Ian Hampson

Areas of Expertise:

• Politics
• Industrial relations
• Training policy
• Skills recognition
• Remuneration and performance management

Guogui Huang

Centre for Workforce Futures, Macquarie Business School

Areas of expertise:

• Population ageing and its socioeconomic consequences
• Ageing and well-being
• Aged care provision
• Quality of later life
• Health inequality and healthy life expectancy
• Elderly health improvement

Areas of Expertise:

• Strategic management of social impact
• (Social) Entrepreneurship
• Neurodiversity and autism employment

Associate Professor Kate Lloyd

Department of Geography and Planning, Faculty of Arts

Areas of Expertise:

• Higher education, employability and work-based learning
• Social networks for employability
• Service learning
• Co-production of knowledges

Department of Management, Macquarie Business School

Areas of Expertise:

• International management
• Human resource management in emerging markets
• Integration of immigrant professionals in workplace
• Occupational health and safety (OHS) in mining industry

Associate Professor Erik Lundmark

Department of Management, Macquarie Business School

Areas of Expertise:

• Evolutionary perspectives on entrepreneurship
• Entrepreneurship discourse and conceptualisations
• New firm and market development (the liability of newness)

Emeritus Professor Raymond Markey

Immediate Past Director, Centre for Workforce Futures (CWF)

Areas of Expertise:

• International comparative employment relations systems
• Employee voice and participation
• Occupational health and safety and employee well-being
• Work/life and work/family balance
• Australian and international comparative labour history

Dr Salut Muhidin

Department of Management, Macquarie Business School

Areas of Expertise:

• Business Demographics
• Labour market forecasting
• Ageing population and pension
• Health inequality and closing the gap
• Migration and skilled labour
• Regional economic development
• Education and human development

Professor Pundarik Mukhopadhaya

Department of Economics, Macquarie Business School

Areas of Expertise:

• Equity and justice
• Gender disparity in multiple dimensions
• Old age security
• Labour market regulations

Professor Nick Parr

Department of Management, Macquarie Business School

Areas of Expertise:

• Demography and the workforce
• Fertility and family formation
• Migrants in Australia
• Statistical demography
• Family policies
• Demographic projections

Professor Ingrid Piller

Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Human Sciences

Areas of Expertise:

• applied sociolinguistics
• intercultural communication
• language learning
• multilingualism
• bilingual education

Professor Nicholas Smith

Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts

Areas of Expertise:

• 'Applying the Ethics of Recognition: Work and the Social Bond' (with Jean-Philippe Deranty)
• 'Work and Self-Development: A Philosophical Reappraisal' (with Jean-Philippe Deranty, Christophe Dejours and Emmanuel Renault)
• modern European Philosophy
• social and political philosophy
• theories of subjectivity
• religion and modernity

Professor Louise Thornthwaite

Department of Management, Macquarie Business School

Areas of Expertise:

• Human resource management
• Industrial relations
• Employment law
• Discrimination law
• Public Sector Management
• Labour and industrial law
• Diversity and equality policy
• Management policy on IR and HRM
• The ageing workforce
• Social media and work

Dr Matalena Tofa

Professional and Community Engagement, DVCL&T

Areas of Expertise:

• Higher education, employability and work-based learning
• Social networks for employability
• Precarity in academia

Dr Danè Turner

Department of Biomedical Sciences

Areas of Expertise:

• Biomedical/Mechanical Engineering
• Implant design and analysis
• Research and engineering education
• Orthopaedics and Biomechanics
• Computer modelling

Dr Dale Tweedie

Department of Accounting & Corporate Governance, Macquarie Business School

Areas of Expertise:

• Business and Professional ethics
• Workplace organisation and governance
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Critical Theory and accounting/management

Dr Ben Wang

Department of Economics, Macquarie Business School

Areas of Expertise:

• Macroeconomics
• Applied Econometrics