Clare Burton Memorial Lectures 2006
In 2006 the eighth series of Clare Burton Memorial Lectures will be held around Australia. The lectures commemorate Dr Clare Burton, who passed away suddenly in August 1998. Clare was a leading researcher, public sector administrator, academic, consultant and writer on employment equity.
The lectures are hosted by ATN WEXDEV, an executive development program for women in the five universities of the Australian Technology Network: Curtin University of Technology, Queensland University of Technology, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, University of South Australia and University of Technology, Sydney. A lecture is also held in Canberra under the joint sponsorship of four ACT universities: Australian Defence Force Academy, Australian National University, Australian Catholic University and University of Canberra. The lectures take place with the assistance of a number of significant public sector partners, including the Government of South Australia Minister for the Status of Women, the Western Australian Government Department for Communities, and the New South Wales Government Office for Women's Policy..
The 2006 Clare Burton lecturer is Professor Barbara Pocock, Director of the Centre for Work + Life, University of South Australia.
The lecture is entitled:
'Jobs, Care and Justice: A Fair Work Regime for Australia'
Professor Pocock explains:
'Australia - a rich country - is experimenting in radical ways with industrial laws and care regimes. Inequality in the labour market is widening, as some Australians do well out of a changing labour market whilst many other workers and their children are not so lucky.
The labour market is a place of interdependence. The well-paid rely upon the low-paid. The producers need the reproducers. This lecture explores how, in this environment, fairer and more sustainable work and care outcomes can be secured - for Australian women, men and children.'
Barbara Pocock has been investigating work in Australia for over twenty-five years. Since 2003, with the award of a five-year Queen Elizabeth Fellowship, she has been analysing the nature of the fit (or misfit) between work, home and community in Australia. She has also undertaken research on vocational education, low pay, casual work, long hours, gender pay inequality, the politics of unions, industrial relations, gender and work, employment and work and family. She joined the University of South Australia in 2006 to establish the Centre for Work + Life, as part of the Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies. Further information is available from www.barbarapocock.com.au.
Dates and Venues, 2008
CANBERRA
Thursday 4 September 5:30pm
Council Room, Building 1, Level D, University of Canberra
Hosted by ACT Universities
Contact: Debra Hippisley (02) 6201 5064
Debra.Hippisley@canberra.edu.au
ADELAIDE
Wednesday 18 October 5.30 pm
Stamford Plaza, 150 North Terrace, Adelaide
Hosted by University of South Australia
Contact: Lyn Browning (08) 8302 1729
lynette.browning@unisa.edu.au
PERTH
Friday 27 October 12 noon
Hyatt Hotel
Hosted by Curtin University of Technology
Contact: Barbara Groombridge (08) 9266 4140
b.groombridge@curtin.edu.au
MELBOURNE
Thursday 2 November 6.00 pm
RMIT Capitol Theatre, Building 113, 113 Swanston St
Hosted by RMIT University
Contact: Amy Love (03) 9925 4210
amy.love@rmit.edu.au
BRISBANE
Tuesday 7 November 6.00 pm
Owen J Wordsworth Rooms, Level 12, S Block, QUT Gardens Point
Hosted by Queensland University of Technology
Contact: Kym Mayers (07) 3864 4174 k.mayers@qut.edu.au
SYDNEY
Wednesday 8 November 6.00 pm
Training Room, Level 6, Building 10, Jones St, Broadway
Hosted by University of Technology, Sydney
Contact: Kate Wilson (02) 9514 1081
kate.Wilson@uts.edu.au