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Alysia Blackham

Associate Professor
Law
Equality law
Young workers
Older workers
Self-employment
Gig work
Algorithmic bias
Judges
Retirement
Mixed methods
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Alysia Blackham

 
Division
Law
 
Primary Interest
Empirical legal research
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Projects

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CGEPS Inaugural Research Grants Round, 2021

2021 - 2023
Active
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ADDRESSING AGE DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT

This project aims to research the effectiveness of Australian age discrimination laws. While demographic ageing necessitates extending worki..

2017 - 2022
Completed
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Addressing Age Discrimination in Employment

This project aims to research the effectiveness of Australian age discrimination laws. While demographic ageing necessitates extending worki..

2017 - 2022
Completed
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Workability and the ageing population

2016 - 2017
Completed

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Projects

Project Types

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Internal Research Grant

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Research Grant

Scholarly Works

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Abandoning individual enforcement? Interrogating the enforcement of age discrimination law

Alysia Blackham

Journal article  |  2023  |  LEGAL STUDIES

Abstract Discrimination law primarily relies on individual enforcement for addressing discrimination at work; yet those who are..

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A Life Course Approach to Addressing Exponential Inequalities

Alysia Blackham

Book Chapter  |  2023

Abstract This chapter argues that age is an exponential amplifier of inequality. It puts forward a life course pers..

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Promoting innovation or exacerbating inequality? Laboratory federalism and Australian age discrimination law

Alysia Blackham

Journal article  |  2023  |  Federal Law Review

According to laboratory federalism, federal systems can promote governmental innovation and experimentation, while containing the ..

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Setting the Framework for Accountability for Algorithmic Discrimination at Work

Alysia Blackham

Journal article  |  2023  |  Melbourne University Law Review

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When Law and Data Collide: The Methodological Challenge of Conducting Mixed Methods Research in Law

Alysia Blackham

Journal article  |  2022  |  Journal of Law and Society

A mixed methods research methodology – that integrates both qualitative and quantitative research methods – theoretically offers s..

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Reforming Age Discrimination Law Beyond Individual Enforcement

Alysia Blackham

Book  |  2022

This book offers a roadmap for the future development of age discrimination law in common law countries to better address workplac..

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Agency Enforcement

Alysia Blackham

Book Chapter  |  2022

Abstract This chapter critically analyses the role of statutory agencies in moving beyond the individual enforcemen..

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Table of Cases

Book Chapter  |  2022

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Endorsements

Book Chapter  |  2022

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Collective Enforcement

Alysia Blackham

Book Chapter  |  2022

Abstract Collective approaches are important complements to individual enforcement, and offer significant advantage..

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Keyword Analysis

Justice and the Law
Commercial Law
Other Law and Legal Studies
Legal Systems
Law in Context
Human Resources and Industrial Relations
International and Comparative Law
Public Law
Evaluation of Health and Support Services
History and Philosophy of Specific Fields

News

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A light at the end of the inequality tunnel?

Roger Wilkins, Alysia Blackham, Jo Barraket

For a brief time, the arrival of COVID-19 nudged Australia a little closer to being a country of equality. This is because the pandemic did..

December 4, 2022
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Reimagining age equality at work

Alysia Blackham, Anne Hewitt, Jack Lam

In 2015, the Australian Human Rights Commission found that 27 per cent of older workers had experienced age discrimination at work in the l..

June 14, 2022
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Discrimination in a pandemic

Alysia Blackham

COVID-19 is fundamentally reshaping the economy and the world of work. Mass layoffs – in tourism, bars, clubs, cafes, restaurants, cinemas..

May 3, 2020
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Women, age discrimination and work

Alysia Blackham

Reports out of the UK and Europe have found that ageism is the most common type of discrimination. In the US, around 61 per cent of workers..

March 7, 2020
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We need to talk about discrimination law and why a thoughtful approach to reform is so important

Alysia Blackham, Adriana Orifici, Liam Elphick

In 2019, discrimination law rarely left the headlines. Among the issues crowding the public agenda: the Israel Folau case, the draft Religi..

February 5, 2020
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Challenging discrimination in the gig economy

Alysia Blackham

Most of us are now familiar with the gig economy. We’ve put a job on Airtasker, ridden in an Uber or had food brought to us by Deliveroo. ..

March 6, 2019
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Why mandatory retirement ages should be a thing of the past

Alysia Blackham

Mandatory retirement ages are – rightly – mostly a thing of the past in Australia. But they still linger both formally and informally in so..

April 8, 2018
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The case for removing judges’ retirement age

Alysia Blackham

Judge Graham Bell of the Family Court of Australia retired on 20 February 2015, at the age of 78. Appointed in 1976, he took office before ..

June 7, 2016
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2020

Adam Podgórecki Prize 2020

International Sociological Association Research Committee on the Sociology of Law
2020

Patricia Grimshaw Award for Mentor Excellence

University of Melbourne
2018

Phillipa Weeks Prize for the Best Paper by an Early Career Scholar presented at the ALLA 2018 Conference

Australian Labour Law Association
2017

Runner-up, Peter Birks Prizes for Outstanding Legal Scholarship 2017 (awarded to outstanding published books by early career scholars)

UK Society of Legal Scholars
2016

Phillipa Weeks Prize for the Best Paper by an Early Career Scholar presented at the ALLA 2016 Conference

Australian Labour Law Association
2011

Poynton Cambridge Australia Scholarship

Cambridge Trust
2011

WM Tapp Studentship in Law

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Associate Professor

Law

Member

Research Committee on Sociology of Law

Member

International Sociological Association

Member

Australasian Law Academics 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

Links

International Linkages

Lund University

Sweden

University of Cambridge

United Kingdom

Kobe University

Japan

University of California - Berkeley

United States