An undergraduate degree focusing on industrial relations (IR), public policy and politics, coupled with previous management and [IR] practitioner experience combined to reveal for Associate Professor Keith Townsend, just how complicated working life can be. Spending his life talking to others about their workplace complications has set him on a path; and the destination is still yet unknown! We spent five minutes with Keith to learn a little more about his journey…
In what area/s does your research interests lie?
My PhD was really about teams… – commonly…a HR [human resources] topic, but I embedded my research within an industrial sociology literature while working within an [academic] industrial relations department. So right from the start of my research career I had a bit of a scatter gun, but multi-disciplinary, approach to do research on things I thought were interesting. (Probably not the best advice to give to an early career researcher but
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