Susan Mcgrath-Champ
BA(Hons) W.Aust.; MA Br.Col. ; PhD Macq.
Associate Professor
susan.mcgrathchamp@sydney.edu.au
Room 436
H03 Institute Building
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia
Phone: +61 2 9351 6437
Fax: +61 2 9351 4729
Susan McGrath-Champ's main research interests lie in human resource management, and the spatial (geographical) aspects of work and employment.
She has completed ARC (Australian Research Council)-funded research analysing the spatial aspects of enterprise agreements and was the first chief researcher on an ARC project concerning training, migration and global aspects of the Australian construction industry, a project which included eight industry partners. As recipient of an Exchange from the Australian Academy of Social Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, she has also researched performance management aspects of international assignments within international and global firms. Teaching in strategic human resource management, international human resource management, globalisation and employment relations and management of technology, she has been a recipient of a Faculty Award for Teaching Innovation.
Susan is the chief editor of an international Handbook of Employment and Society: Working Space (2010 with Andrew Herod and Al Rainnie) which develops understandings of the active role of geography in the world of work, and special issue guest editor of Economic and Industrial Democracy (2005) and Labour and Industry (2002, with Bradon Ellem).
Susan is a Fellow of the Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI) and a Committee Member on AHRIs International Human Resource Management Special Interest Group. She is a former Executive Committee Member of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand, is a professional Member of the Institute of Australian Geographers (MIAG) and is on the editorial board of the International Employment Relations Review.
Research Expertise
- Geographical aspects of work and employment
- Human resource and management strategy
- International human resource management
- Employment relations in mining and construction
- Gender and ethnicity