Hawke Research Institute
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Professor Barbara Pocock was awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship to analyse and investigate the relationship of changing patterns of work in Australia, and the changing nature of Australian households, communities and workplaces. The fellowship explored the effects of work upon households, along with individual preferences and household, community and workplace structures (and their interaction), drawing out implications for social theory and policy. It analysed policy and quantitative data, and collected and analysed new qualitative data at Australian sites, within an international context. The fellowship developed and tested, by means of new empirical collections, theoretical explanations of the ways in which market and non-market work, and social and public institutions construct each other, and the ways in which personal and household preferences are working in relation to social structures and institutions. It resulted in several major publications, including The work-life collision: what work is doing to Australians and what to do about it (2003); The labour market ate my babies: work, children and a sustainable future (2006) and a co-edited book Kids count: better early childhood education and care in Australia (2007), as well as numerous book chapters and referred articles and over 200 public presentations and keynote addresses, including in Canada, the US, Japan, the UK, Switzerland and China. Other highlights included Professor Pocock delivering in 2006 the Australia-wide annual Clare Burton lecture series 'Jobs, care and justice: a fair work regime for Australia' and an appearance at the House of Representatives Inquiry into Work and Family, included in the December 2006 Parliamentary report 'Balancing work and family'. The
last two years of the fellowship led to the development of new research
capacity through the creation of the by the
Centre for Work + Life at the University of South Australia. |
