World renowned Workplace Research Centre to make final contribution to IR debate

THE University of Sydney’s internationally respected Workplace Research Centre (WRC) is planning to make a final and significant contribution to the industrial relations debate with its last high powered symposium on this crucial element of national life.

Established as the Australian Centre for Industrial Relations Research and Training (ACIRRT) in 1991, the WRC will close at the end of 2014.

Prominent speakers at the symposium on 4 December 2014, will include the former President of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission, Geoffrey Guidice AO.

“The symposium will look at the role played by research in evaluating previous industrial relations reform as well as the future and explore how research can respond to new and emerging employment relations challenges,” said WRC Director, Professor John Buchanan.

The symposium will also feature:

• Grant Belchamber, ACTU
• Emeritus Professor Russell Lansbury, Inaugural ACIRRT director
• Professor Karel Williams, University of Manchester (via videolink)
• Professor Chris Warhurst, University of Warwick (via videolink)
• Professor Barbara Pocock, University of South Australia
• Professor John Buchanan, University of Sydney
• Professor David Peetz, Griffith University
• Professor Nigel Haworth, University of Auckland
• Associate Professor Rae Cooper, University of Sydney

Further details are available on the WRC’s website: http://sydney.edu.au/business/workplaceresearch/conferences/symposium_2014/legacies_and_future_directions_for_ir_research

Date: 4 December, 2014

Time: 9am – 4.20 pm

Venue: The Darlington Centre, City Road, University of Sydney