Associate Professor Alysia Blackham is an internationally renowned expert on age discrimination law and the consequences of ageing for workplaces. Her innovative research focuses on the intersection of employment law, equality law and public law, using empirical evidence to cast new light on legal problems.
Funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher grant (DE170100228 "Addressing Age Discrimination in Employment”), Alysia is exploring the ways in which age discrimination law is enforced in Australia and the UK, and the barriers to effectively addressing age discrimination at work. The results of this project may be explored at http://ageworks.info/
Alysia has published extensively across leading Australian and international journals and in legal and interdisciplinary forums. Her award-winning monograph, Extending Working Life for Older Workers: Age Discrimination Law, Policy and Practice (Hart, 2016), won second prize in the UK Society of Legal Scholars' Peter Birks Prizes for Outstanding Legal Scholarship in 2017, one of the most prestigious awards in UK legal publishing. She has also co-edited two influential edited collections, New Frontiers in Empirical Labour Law Research (Hart, 2015) and Theorising Labour Law in a Changing World: Towards Inclusive Labour Law (Hart, 2019). Alysia is regularly invited to present her scholarship in Australia and internationally.
Alysia has worked as an academic in Australia, Sweden and the UK, including as the Turpin-Lipstein Fellow and College Lecturer in Law and Director of Studies at Clare College, Cambridge and an Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge. Alysia also has experience of legal practice and organisational management, having worked as an employment law solicitor at Herbert Smith Freehills in Sydney, and Executive Officer to the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Corporate Services) at the University of Technology, Sydney.
Alysia is a member of the Australian Discrimination Law Experts Group, Australian Labour Law Association, UK Society of Legal Scholars, and UK Socio-Legal Studies Association.
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
Phillipa Weeks Prize for the Best Paper by an Early Career Scholar presented at the ALLA 2018 Conference
Runner-up, Peter Birks Prizes for Outstanding Legal Scholarship 2017 (awarded to outstanding published books by early career scholars)
Phillipa Weeks Prize for the Best Paper by an Early Career Scholar presented at the ALLA 2016 Conference
Poynton Cambridge Australia Scholarship
WM Tapp Studentship in Law
Credentials
Positions
Arc Decra Fellowship
Law
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Research Committee on Sociology of Law
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International Sociological Association
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Australasian Law Academics Association
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Australian Labour Law Association
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Australian Discrimination Law Experts Group
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UK Society of Legal Scholars
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UK Socio-Legal Studies Association
Education
PhD in Law
University of Cambridge
Graduate Certificate in Educational Studies (Higher Education)
University of Sydney
Bachelor of Laws
University of Melbourne
Bachelor of Arts
University of Melbourne
Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice
The College of Law