The labour market ate my babies

07 November 2006

One of Australia’s leading researchers on employment and industrial relations issues, Professor Barbara Pocock, will be speaking at UNSW this week.

Professor Pocock is the Director of the Centre for Work and Life at the University of South Australia. She will discuss research from her forthcoming book ‘The labour market ate my babies: work, children and a sustainable future’ at the final Gender Equity Speaker Series seminar for 2006.

Professor Pocock has been investigating work in Australia for more than 25 years. She was awarded a five-year Queen Elizabeth Fellowship in 2003 and has spent the past few years analysing the nature of the fit (or misfit) between work, home and community in Australia.

She has also undertaken research on vocational education, low pay, casual work, long hours, gender pay inequality, the politics of unions, industrial relations, gender and work, employment and work and family.

The Gender Equity Speaker Series is organised by UNSW’s Equity and Diversity Unit.

What: Gender Equity Speaker Series 2006
Professor Barbara Pocock, University of South Australia

Where: Arcade Room, Mathews Arcade, UNSW Kensington campus

When: 12 – 1pm, Thursday 9 November 2006

For more information please contact Dinah Cohen, Equity and Diversity Unit.