Marian Baird
BEc(Hons); DipEd; PhD Sydney
Professor of Employment Relations
marian.baird@sydney.edu.au
Room 441
H03 Institute Building
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia
Phone: +61 2 9351 6439
Fax: +61 2 9351 4729
Marian Baird is Professor of Employment Relations in the University of Sydney Business School and Research Coordinator for the Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies. She is Director of the Women♀Work Research Group and co-editor of the Journal of Industrial Relations. In addition, Marian is a Fellow of the University of Sydney Senate and is on the Women's College Council and the Board of the Diversity Council of Australia.
Marian is one of Australia's leading researchers in the fields of women, work and family. She studies the impact of workplace regulation on women's working lives over the life cycle. Two current projects are examining changes in maternity/parental leave provisions and organisational elder care entitlements. Marian has received a number of Australian Research Council and federal and state government grants to study women and work in terms of the global financial crisis, mature age workers, gender equitable organisational change and work and family in regional Victoria. She is widely published in Australia and internationally.
Marian is engaged with policy making at all levels. She is a member of the Paid Parental Leave Policy evaluation team, a government funded project to evaluate the new paid parental leave policy in Australia. Prior to that she was a lead investigator on The Parental Leave in Australia Study which provided detailed survey, case study and interview data about maternity leave availability and usage in Australia. Marian is also a member of the EOWA Implementation Advisory Group, providing input into the new Workplace Gender Equality legislation.
Marian is a highly regarded teacher and she lectures in both the undergraduate and graduate programs of the Business School. Marian is the co-author of Human Resource Management: Strategy and Practice (2011), the leading Australian HRM text and winner of the Australian Educational Publishing Award for best tertiary text.
Invited Speaker in 2011
- Sony Australia: Women and Leadership
- Women in Science, University of Sydney: Women in Australia: Women in Science
- HR@Work Network: The Rise of Women
- Sydney University Business School, Take the Lead: Paid Parental Leave - Opportunity or Challenge for Employers
- The Labor and Employment Relations Association 2011 National Policy Forum, Washington DC: Fair Work Australia: Combining Enterprise Success with Fair Treatment of Workers
- Institute for Women's Policy Research Washington DC: Family Policy and Workplace Flexibility: Lessons from Australia
- Centre for Economic Policy Research, Washington DC: Family Policy and Workplace Flexibility: Acceptance and Resistance
- Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, Employment Relations in Australia in an Era of Change: Employer Responses to Paid Parental Leave
Research Expertise
- Paid maternity leave in Australia
- Parental leave
- Women, work and family
- Regulation of work
- Industrial relations and human resource management