SMI Seminar Series
Event Details
- Date:
- Monday, 20 April 2015
- Time:
- 10:00 am - 11:00 am
- Room:
- Level 4 Seminar Room
- UQ Location:
- Sir James Foots Building (St Lucia)
- Event category(s):
Event Contact
- Name:
- Miss Hannah Fry
- Phone:
- 64241
- Email:
- h.fry@uq.edu.au
- Org. Unit:
- Sustainable Minerals Institute
Event Description
- Full Description:
- Long distance commuting (also known as fly in, fly out, drive in, drive out, etc.) has become a central employment strategy for remote and rural operations in Australia’s extractive resources industries (mining, petroleum). The practice is also widely debated, discussed and blamed for many social ills across Australian society and government, including the recent Senate report partially titled “cancer of the bush”. The University of Queensland Sustainable Minerals Institute has researched different factors surrounding mining workforce health and safety, wellbeing, and retention. Griffith University has a multiple year study into the health and wellbeing of the unionized resource industry workforce and their families. This event will present the most recent findings from research programs in both universities including such factors as impacts on workforce mental health (loneliness, social isolation), accommodation preferences, roster design, fatigue and safety. Join us for a seminar at 10am on April 20th, by Professor David Peetz and Dr Georgina Murray from Griffith University, followed by a discussion panel by Dr Jo-Anne Everingham - Centre for Social Responsibility in mining, Philipp Kirsch -Associate Professor and Projects Manager Minerals Industry Safety and Health Centre (MISHC) and Jill Harris – Senior Research Officer (MISHC); and some light refreshments at the end of the panel.
David Peetz is professor of employment relations at the Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing at Griffith University. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia as well as the author of Unions in a Contrary World (1998) and Brave New Workplace (2006) and co-author of Women of the Coal Rushes (2010), in addition to numerous academic articles, papers and reports.
Georgina Murray is Associate Professor in Humanities at Griffith University, in the Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing. She lectures in political economy and sociology and is the author of many articles and papers as well as Capitalist Networks and Social Class in Australia and New Zealand (2006), co-author of Women of the Coal Rushes (2010), and co-editor of Financial elites and Transnational Business – who rules the world? (2012).
Directions to UQ
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- Directions:
- St Lucia Campus | Gatton campus.
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