Making a Life With Less: Youth Underemployment Over the Life Course

Gender and Anticipatory Labour in the Gig Economy: How Employability Is Unequally Performed by Women and Men on Project-Based Platforms

Brendan Churchill, Kate Dangar, Asangi Mira Gunawansa

2026-01-01

Work mediated by digital labour platforms is often framed as flexible and autonomous, yet accessing paid tasks commonly requires e..

The continual gender revolution in Australia: Progress toward egalitarian attitudes in work, care and political leadership

K Dangar, B Churchill

2026-01-01

This study examines shifts in Australian attitudes towards gender roles in work, family life and politics from 2000 to 2020. Using..

Gendered associations between time-related underemployment and mental health: longitudinal evidence from 21 waves of cohort data

J Ervin, B Churchill, Y Taouk, L Ruppanner, T King

2025-11-01

Background Underemployment is an increasing feature of global labour markets. However, the mental health impacts of underemploymen..

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

J Ervin, B Churchill, L Ruppanner, T King

2025-11-01

Across the globe, the division of unpaid labour remains highly gendered and unequally shared. This has consequences for women's ec..

Policy interventions for the future of work: do Australians want government compensation, guidance, or investment to manage technological change?

Brendan Churchill, Ariadne Vromen, Leah Ruppanner

2025-01-01

This paper examines how Australian attitudes toward the future of work shape support for policy interventions, drawing on national..

The Gendered Flexibility Paradox and Remote-First Work: How Working Parents Reconcile Work and Care

Lauren Ryan, Brendan Churchill, Leah Ruppanner

2025-01-01

Recent technological advances and globalised distribution of work have accelerated the rise of remote-first organisations where ev..

Underemployment and Job Quality Among Young Australians: A Gendered Analysis Using the HILDA Survey (2009–2022)

Brendan Churchill

2025-01-01

Over almost two decades, young people's employment opportunities have been significantly impacted by events like the Global Financ..