DrElsa Underhill

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Faculty of Business and Law/Deakin Business School

RESEARCH INTERESTS

* Occupational health and safety and temporary agency workers
* Labour market change
* Human Resource Management
* Industrial Relations Policy and Strategies
* Strategies for improving the safe placement of agency workers
* Interrelationships between human resource management policies and practices and OHS outcomes

Knowledge Areas
Precarious employment and workplace health and safety

Temporary migrant workers

Worker representation in the construction industry

Regulating labour hire employment (temporary employment agencies)

Projects
Worker Representation in OHS in the Australian Construction Industry, with Profs. Michael Quinlan (UNSW), David Walters (Cardiff) and Dr. Emma Wadsworth (Cardiff). Research grant from the CFMEU

The Harvest Trail: Employment and OHS amongst international backpackers in the Australian harvesting sector, with Emer. Prof. Malcolm Rimmer (La Trobe).

Employment status and employee well-being, with Drs. Melissa Parris, Kerrie Saville & Justine Ferrer.

Licensing of temporary agency employers (labour hire employers): a review of international standards and their relevance to Australia.

GRANTS

  • TENDER
    Information seeking behaviours of temporary visa workers
    6 Dec 2017 - 28 Feb 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    • Elsa Underhill
    Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transports and Resources - $41,163.09
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Evaluating the role of the CFMEU in improving occupational health and safety outcomes in construction
    1 Apr 2015 - 30 Apr 2016
    People funded by this grant:
    • Underhill E,
    • Walters D,
    • Quinlan M
    CONSTRUCTION FORESTRY MINING & ENERGY UNION NATIONAL OFFICE - $33,600.00
  • GRANT
    For the provision of research into strategies for improving workplace health and safety for labour placement industry workers in Queensland
    31 May 2010 - 20 Aug 2010
    People funded by this grant:
    • Elsa Underhill
    DJAG QLD Department of Justice & Attorney-General, Queensland Government - 029.0910 - $41,481.80