DrAmanda Coles

Board Member, International Journal of Canadian Studies

Equity and Opportunity Stream Leader, Faculty of Business and Law Diversity and Inclusion Taskforce

Chair, Equity Diversity Inclusion and Indigeneity Committee, Journal of Industrial Relations

Member, Faculty of Business and Law Ethics Committee, Deakin Business School, 2018-2022

Deputy Editor, Journal of Industrial Relations

Guest expert, The Minefield, ABC Radio National. Is it time to end simulated sex on television? April 29, 2020. https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/theminefield/amanda-coles/11972188

Keynote interview. Status of Women in the Canadian Arts and Cultural Industries. MC Minds Mass Culture Canada, 2019. https://youtu.be/a-4La54t-RA

Co-Researcher, Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalisation and Work

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade / Austrade Creative Services Working Group

Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics

Member, Industrial Relations Society of Victoria

Member, Association of Industrial Relations Academics in Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ)

Finalist, Initiative of the Year. “A Wider Lens: Workforce Development and Diversity in Australian Cinematography.” 2022 Screenwell Awards. Australia.

Co-author Recipient. Vic Taylor Best Labour and Industry Paper Award, 2021. Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand.

Recipient, Please Adjust Your Set Award for Outstanding Contribution to Research and Policy Impact. Women in Film and Television Vancouver, 2019.

Honorable mention, Best Dissertation, Labour and Employment Relations Association, 2013

Co-Organiser, SASE Network K: Institutional Experimentation in the Regulation of Work and Employment. Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. 2025 – present

Co-Convenor, with Jamie Woodcock (Kings College London, UK) and Johanna Weststar (Western University, Canada). 2025 International Summit on Game Worker Organising. London, UK.

Co-Convenor, with Johanna Weststar (lead, University of Western Ontario) and Jamie Woodcock (Kings College London). International Summit on Game Worker Organising. In partnership with the Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalisation and Work (CRIMT) and Communication Workers of America CODE Project, as part of the CRIMT Institutional Experimentation for Better Work Partnership Project. HEC, October 2024

Project Lead, Experimenting for Equality: International Policy Summit on Gender and the Global Screen Industries. In partnership with the Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work and Women in View, as part of the CRIMT Institutional Experimentation for Better Work Partnership Project. University of Montreal, November 2018.

Invited talk: Power ecologies: rethinking power resources presentation at the Centre for Sociological Research, KU Leuven

Invited talk: Coles, A., Ferrer, J., & Zemaityte, Z. (2022). A Wider Lens: Australian Camera Workforce Development and Diversity. EnergaCAMERIMAGE International Film Festival. November, Toruń, Poland.

Panelist – Women in Music, part of the Music and Ideas Events series hosted by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. With Tasneem Chopra (moderator), Vanessa Perica (Composer, Arranger, Conductor), Professor Margaret Barrett (Monash University) and Katharine Bartholomeusz-Plows (Head of Artistic Planning, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra). April 9, Melbourne.