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Email

brendan.churchill@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Associate Professor in Sociology
School of Social and Political Sciences
Education
PhD
University of Tasmania
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
University of Tasmania
Bachelors Degree
University of Tasmania
ORCID

0000-0003-3625-4574

A/Prof Brendan Churchill

Associate Professor in Sociology
School of Social and Political Sciences

91 Scholarly works
12 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2025

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Equitable Reskilling for the Future of Work
  • 2024

    Research contracts (non-grants)

    Y Careers Evaluation
  • 2021

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Managing at the Margins: Women Making It Work in Precarious Times
  • 2021

    Report

    Young Australians’ Confidence in Political Institutions and Their Civic Engagement
  • 2019

    Journal article

    Gender in the gig economy: Men and women using digital platforms to secure work in Australia
    DOI: 10.1177/1440783319894060
  • 2019

    Journal article

    Youth, Recession, and Downward Gender Convergence: Young People’s Employment, Education, and Homemaking in Finland, Spain, Taiwan, and the United States 2000–2013
    DOI: 10.1093/sp/jxy015
  • 2019

    Journal article

    Making pathways? A mixed methods analysis of young women who have left school early in ‘the new work order’
    DOI: 10.1177/1440783319869831
Brendan Churchill

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2022
Work-Family Researchers Network (WFRN) Early Career Research Fellow
2021
Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) Fellow
2011
Teaching Merit Certificate University of Tasmania

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2026

    Journal article

    Youth side-hustles: Enterprise culture and the post-Fordist work ethic
    DOI: 10.1177/00380261261440738
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Gender and Anticipatory Labour in the Gig Economy: How Employability Is Unequally Performed by Women and Men on Project-Based Platforms
    DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.70085
  • 2026

    Book Chapter

    The continual gender revolution in Australia: Progress toward egalitarian attitudes in work, care and political leadership
    DOI: 10.4324/9781003518266-12
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Unpaid labour and mental health–the role of perceived fairness and satisfaction in division amongst working-age adults; a longitudinal analysis using 18 waves of panel data
    DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118559
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Gendered associations between time-related underemployment and mental health: longitudinal evidence from 21 waves of cohort data
    DOI: 10.1136/jech-2024-223378
  • 2025

    Conference Proceedings

    8266333 Gendered associations between work-family conflict and mental health amongst employed Australians parents
    DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2025-epicohabstracts.82
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Risky business: How food-delivery platform riders understand and manage safety at work
    DOI: 10.1177/14407833241246571
  • 2025

    Book Chapter

    Gendering the gig worker: a critical review of gender inequalities in the gig economy
    DOI: 10.4337/9781035302567.00040

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