The Future of Work Lab

Our Research

The future of work is here now. Our integrated approach draws from Sociology, Business and Economics and Computer Information Systems to provide an interdisciplinary understanding of an increasingly changing work world. We are committed to ensuring workers and employers are prepared for the future of work through a comprehensive understanding of how the future of work will impact people, places, governments, organisations and technologies. We are committed to evidence-based approaches to ensuring equity in the future of work.

Researchers

Researchers in the research group. Showing 5 of 5.

Prof Susan Ainsworth

Prof Michael Davern

Prof Leah Ruppanner

Dr Robert Turnbull

Prof Frank Vetere

Projects

Projects conducted by research group members

Displaying 10 projects from 57 for the research group.

Volumetric capture technology in extended reality collaborations for Education and Training

2020 - 2023

Active

CGEPS Inaugural Research Grants Round, 2021

2021 - 2023

Active

Financial Reporting: Insights and Future Horizons

2020 - 2023

Completed

COVID-19 and School Closures: The Impact on Mothers’ Employment

2021 - 2023

Completed

Enhancing sleep and wellbeing in working families

This project aims to investigate the role of sleep on individuals’ health by measuring Australians' sleep patterns relative to work and fami..

2018 - 2022

Completed

Explanation in Artificial Intelligence: A Human-Centred Approach

This project aims to produce validated methods for creating human-centred explanations of decisions made by artificial intelligence (AI). Tr..

2019 - 2022

Completed

Scholarly Works

Scholarly Works by research group members

Displaying 10 scholarly works from 474 for the research group.

Children of the Revolution: The continued unevenness of the gender revolution in housework, childcare and work time across birth cohorts.

Brendan Churchill, Sabino Kornrich, Leah Ruppanner

Journal article | 2023 | Soc Sci Res

This study investigates whether parents spend different amounts of time in housework, childcare, and employment across birth cohor..

MetaGenePipe: An Automated, Portable Pipeline for Contig-based Functional and Taxonomic Analysis

Babak Shaban, Mar Quiroga, Robert Turnbull, Edoardo Tescari, Kim-Anh Lê Cao, Heroen Verbruggen

Journal article | 2023 | Journal of Open Source Software

MetaGenePipe (MGP) is an efficient, flexible, portable, and scalable metagenomics pipeline that uses performant bioinformatics sof..

MetaGenePipe: An Automated, Portable Pipeline for Contig-based Functional and Taxonomic Analysis

BABAK SHABAN, Maria del Mar Quiroga, Robert Turnbull, EDOARDO TESCARI, KIM-ANH LE CAO, HEROEN VERBRUGGEN

Software / Code | 2023

MetaGenePipe (MGP) is an efficient, flexible, portable, and scalable metagenomics pipeline that uses performant bioinformatics sof..

Directive Explanations for Actionable Explainability in Machine Learning Applications

Ronal Singh, Tim Miller, Henrietta Lyons, Liz Sonenberg, Eduardo Velloso, Frank Vetere, Piers Howe, Paul Dourish

Journal article | 2023 | ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems

In this paper, we show that explanations of decisions made by machine learning systems can be improved by not only explaining ..

Configuring Relationships between Analytics and Business Domain Groups for Knowledge Integration

Ida Someh, Barbara Wixom, Michael Davern, Graeme Shanks

Journal article | 2023 | Journal of the Association for Information Systems

To realize value from their wealth of digital data, organizations are investing in data-driven organizational initiatives—efforts ..

Data governance and the secondary use of data: The board influence

S Black, M Davern, SB Maynard, H Nasser

Journal article | 2023 | Information and Organization

The business analytics and strategic management literatures suggest that organizations should seek to exploit data as a key mechan..

teiphy: A Python Package for Converting TEI XML Collations to NEXUS and Other Formats

Joey McCollum, Robert Turnbull

Journal article | 2022 | Journal of Open Source Software

Crunch: A Data Processing Orchestration Tool for Open Science

Robert Turnbull, Mar Quiroga

Presentation | 2022

Association for Interdisciplinary Metaresearch & Open Science

Socio-technical context for insertable devices

Kayla J Heffernan, Frank Vetere, Shanton Chang

Journal article | 2022 | FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY

In this article, we show that voluntarily inserting devices inside the body is contested and seek to understand why. This article ..

Gender in Human Resources: Hiding in plain sight

Susan Ainsworth, Andreas Pekarek

Journal article | 2022 | HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT JOURNAL

This paper argues an important aspect of Human Resources (HR) as an occupation has been largely overlooked by mainstream and criti..

News

News by research group members

Displaying 10 news articles from 47 for the research group.

AI, automation and women

Leah Ruppanner, Brendan Churchill

So much of the debate around the future of work has us thinking far into the future– to workplaces unimaginable and to jobs that very few o..

March 7, 2023

pursuit Article

Yet again, the census shows women are doing more housework. Now is the time to invest in interventions

Leah Ruppanner

The Australian Census numbers have been released, showing women typically do many more hours of unpaid housework per week compared to men. ..

June 28, 2022

conversation Article

Don't give mum chocolates for Mother's Day. Take on more housework, share the mental load and advocate for equality instead

Leah Ruppanner

With Mother’s Day right around the corner, many grateful and loving families are thinking about what to give mum to show their appreciation..

May 5, 2022

conversation Article

Planning, stress and worry put the mental load on mothers – will 2022 be the year they share the burden?

Leah Ruppanner, Brendan Churchill, Liz Dean

The COVID pandemic has made the very private issue of the domestic division of labour – the way housework and childcare are divided – a ver..

January 3, 2022

conversation Article

How Australia’s internal migrants could benefit our regions

Peter Ghin, Susan Ainsworth

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a surge in remote working and allowed professionally mobile workers to move to the country’s regions in gr..

December 8, 2021

pursuit Article

Politicians criticising women for 'outsourcing' parenting need a reality check. Here it is

Leah Ruppanner, Andrea Carson

During a heated exchange in a Coalition party room meeting about childcare subsidies, a male MP stated working women are “outsourcing paren..

June 24, 2021

conversation Article

Sexism, harassment, bullying: just like federal MPs, women standing for local government cop it all

Gosia Mikolajczak, Andrea Carson, Leah Ruppanner

In her departing speech this week, federal Liberal politician Nicolle Flint slammed the sexist abuse and harassment she endured in the lead..

March 18, 2021

conversation Article

Flexible work arrangements help women, but only if they are also offered to men

Leah Ruppanner, Jordy Meekes

Flexible workplace policies designed to improve gender gaps in employment and pay might actually make things worse for women. Flexible wo..

March 7, 2021

conversation Article

COVID forced Australian fathers to do more at home, but at the same cost mothers have long endured

Leah Ruppanner, Caitlyn Collins, Liana Christin Landivar, William Scarborough, Xiao Tan

The COVID-19 pandemic was heralded as an opportunity to restart gender expectations at home. Our research shows Australian fathers have ste..

February 11, 2021

conversation Article

COVID-19 is a disaster for mothers' employment. And no, working from home is not the solution

Leah Ruppanner, Caitlyn Collins, William Scarborough

When COVID-19 hit, some commentators hailed it as an opportunity to revolutionise gender roles in heterosexual couples. But as public li..

July 21, 2020

conversation Article

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The Future of Work Lab

The Future of Work Lab is committed to ensuring the future of work is equitable. As leaders in the field, we provide innovative understandings of the intersections of inequality, technology and policy to create more equitable work futures.

Our Research

Researchers

Projects

The Consequences of the Mental Load for Australian Families

The Consequences of the Mental Load for Australian Families

Women in Local Government: Understanding their Political Trajectories

Women in Local Government: Understanding their Political Trajectories

Volumetric capture technology in extended reality collaborations for Education and Training

CGEPS Inaugural Research Grants Round, 2021

Financial Reporting: Insights and Future Horizons

COVID-19 and School Closures: The Impact on Mothers’ Employment

Enhancing sleep and wellbeing in working families

Explanation in Artificial Intelligence: A Human-Centred Approach

Scholarly Works

Children of the Revolution: The continued unevenness of the gender revolution in housework, childcare and work time across birth cohorts.

MetaGenePipe: An Automated, Portable Pipeline for Contig-based Functional and Taxonomic Analysis

MetaGenePipe: An Automated, Portable Pipeline for Contig-based Functional and Taxonomic Analysis

Directive Explanations for Actionable Explainability in Machine Learning Applications

Configuring Relationships between Analytics and Business Domain Groups for Knowledge Integration

Data governance and the secondary use of data: The board influence

teiphy: A Python Package for Converting TEI XML Collations to NEXUS and Other Formats

Crunch: A Data Processing Orchestration Tool for Open Science

Socio-technical context for insertable devices

Gender in Human Resources: Hiding in plain sight

News

AI, automation and women

Yet again, the census shows women are doing more housework. Now is the time to invest in interventions

Don't give mum chocolates for Mother's Day. Take on more housework, share the mental load and advocate for equality instead

Planning, stress and worry put the mental load on mothers – will 2022 be the year they share the burden?

How Australia’s internal migrants could benefit our regions

Politicians criticising women for 'outsourcing' parenting need a reality check. Here it is

Sexism, harassment, bullying: just like federal MPs, women standing for local government cop it all

Flexible work arrangements help women, but only if they are also offered to men

COVID forced Australian fathers to do more at home, but at the same cost mothers have long endured

COVID-19 is a disaster for mothers' employment. And no, working from home is not the solution

Support Our Research

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