I am an Associate Professor (Full Academic Status) at the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS), which I joined from the Australian Industrial Transformation Institute (AITI), College of Business, Government and Law, in early 2025.  Before joiniung AITI in June 2020, I was at the South Australian Centre for Economic Studies, University of Adelaide, where I remain a Research Associate. Between 2012 and 2016, I was a Senior Research Fellow at the National Institute of Labour Studies, Flinders University, which I had joined from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research in London, where I continued to hold a Visiting Research Fellow, later Senior Economist position until 2019.  

My research has covered welfare activation, including the meta-analysis of welfare-to-work programs in the US and reform programs targeting lone parents and people with disability in the UK. Besides welfare policy, I have studied the sociology of risk, conducting studies examining the validity of Giddens's and Beck's theories, with a focus on young people and generational change. 

My empirical work has extended into disability (including the evaluation of Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme, and NDIS workforce needs assessments) and ageing, where I have focussed on human resource and workplace policies for extended working lives. I have conducted research for practitioners on social enterprise, procurement and social value, and explored housing preferences of older renters in Australia as part of an AHURI research network. 

In 2024, I published an edited volume on "The Future of Work and Technology in Australia".  I continue to explore future of work issues, including the impact of emerging technologies on workplace health and safety.

Current research interests focus on aspects of the future of work, including ethical implications of the use of artificial intelligence in the workplaces, and trends in automation and innovation.

I am interested in the macro-economic, labour market and societal changes affecting and affected by workplace digitilisation, and in PhD research proposals in those areas.

Work-family conflict, work-family guilt, and job satisfaction among female University lecturers in Saudi Arabia (Sharifah Ratyan Z Alanazi, GDRM, June 2024)