Dr Damian Oliver

Position: Research Analyst
Phone: 02 9351 5632
Email: d.oliver@econ.usyd.edu.au

Qualifications:

Damian is an applied researcher with broad experience in workplace and political research.

Damian’s primary research interests related to young people’s involvement in employment relations. He has researched young people’s attitudes to work, labour market transitions, and intersections between the education system and the labour market.

Damian has an honours degree in industrial relations and a doctorate from Griffith University. The topic of his doctoral thesis is the effect of student employment on graduates’ attitudes toward work.

Before starting at the Workplace Research Centre in 2007, Damian worked as a Research Assistant and Tutor in industrial relations and human resource management at Griffith University, the University of Queensland and the University of Sydney.

Areas of expertise:

• quantitative methods, especially measurement of attitudes
• youth employment and youth labour market transitions
• young workers and trade union membership
• the higher education sector

Publications:

2007

• Bailey, J., Oliver, D. and Townsend, K. 2007 Re-designing a Capstone Course in an Undergraduate Business Major’, Journal of Management and Organisation, 13 (1): 65-80.
• McDonald, P., Bailey, J., Oliver, D. and Pini, B. 2007 ‘Compounding vulnerability? Young workers; employment concerns and the anticipated impact of the WorkChoices Act’, Australian Bulletin of Labour, 33 (1): .60-88.
• Oliver, D. 2007. ‘Union Membership among Young Graduate Workers’, in Proceedings of the 21^st Conference of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand, Auckland, 7-10 February.
• Evesson, J, Buchanan, J., Bamberry, L., Frino, B., Oliver, D. 2007. ‘Lowering the Standards: From Awards to Work Choices in Retail and Hospitality Collective Agreements, Workplace Research Centre, University of Sydney, September.
• Baird, M., Cooper, R. & Oliver, D. 2007 ‘Down and Out in New South Wales: The Impact of Work Choices on the Work and Lives of Women in Low Paid Employment’, Women and Work Research Group, University of Sydney, June.

2006

• Oliver, D. 2006 ‘An expectation of future success: The work attitudes of Generation Y’, Labour and Industry, 17 (1), August, 61-84.
• Allan, A., Bamber, G., Oliver, D. 2006 ‘Student Experiences at Work and Attitudes to Unionism: A Study of Retailing and Fast Food’, in Pocock, B., Provis, C. and Willis, E. (eds) 21st Century Work: High Road or Low Road? Proceedings of the 20th Conference of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (Volume 1 - Refereed), Adelaide, 1-3 February, pp.29-38.

2005

• Oliver, D. 2005 ‘New job new start? Union attitudes and student workers’, in Baird, M., Cooper, R. and Westcott, M. (eds) Reworking Work. Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (Volume 1 - Refereed), Sydney, 9-11 February, pp. 413-422.
• Peetz, D., Pocock, B., Oliver, D., Houghton, C., & Clarke, J. 2005 ‘Organisers, delegates and building members’ power’, Report prepared for the ACTU Australasian Organising Conference, Sydney, September.

2004

• Oliver, D. 2004 ‘University students’ part-time work experiences and their attitudes toward full-time work’, in Hyland, P. & Stewart, G. (eds) 2004, Regionalism and globalisation: The challenge for employment relations: Proceedings of the 12th annual IERA conference. Yeppoon, 5-8 July (Electronic Proceedings).

2003

• Oliver, D. 2003 ‘The Higher Education Contract of Employment Award and changing discourses of tenure’, in Hatcher, C., Flew, T. and Jacobs, J. (eds) Designing Communication for Diversity. Proceedings of the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association Conference, Brisbane, 9-11 July (Electronic Proceedings).