Professor John Burgess

Work, Employment Relations and Organisations Research Group

Qualifications
MEc (Syd), MA (Exeter), DipTertStud (NE), PhD

Research Interests
Call centre work and workplaces, workplace bargaining, contingent employment arrangements, gender and work, labour market policy, technology and work, the internal labour market, employment entitlements, agency employment, new forms of work.

Profile
Professor Burgess has an extensive research record on employment developments, the labour market, gender and work, and labour regulation. He has examined the development of part-time work, casual work, home work and temporary agency work. He is on the editorial board of the Australian Journal of Labour Economics, the New Zealand Journal of Employment Relations and the Journal of Economic and Social Policy.

Professor Burgess has published in refereed international journals including Work, Employment and Society (UK), Feminist Economics (USA), Management Review (Germany), British Journal of Industrial Relations (UK), Journal of Socio Economics (USA), International Contributions to Labour (UK), Asia Pacific Business Review (UK), Personnel Review (UK) and the European Journal of Industrial Relations (EU).

Contact Details
Professor John Burgess
Director, Newcastle Graduate School of Business
Faculty of Business and Law
University of Newcastle
Telephone: +61-2-492 16680
Email: John.Burgess@newcastle.edu.au