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The Workplace Research Centre (WRC) is one of Australia's leading research organisations on work and employment.
Research
Over 22 years we have successfully completed on-time and on-budget, over 100 major contract research projects and multiple smaller scale studies.
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Latest News
WRC Researchers win AVETRA Early Career Researcher Paper of the Year 23 Apr 2013
Serena Yu and Tanya Bretherton have won the AVETRA Early Career Researcher Award this April for their work in the field of Vocational Education and Training, at the AVETRA National Conference in Fremantle. Yu and Bretherton have been engaged in a three year program of research "Vocations: the link between post-compulsory education and the labour market", undertaken for the NCVER.
MoreElectrical Apprentice Pay is Inadequate 28 Feb 2013
A research report being released this morning finds award wage rates do not adequately reflect skill levels or financial requirements of contemporary electrical apprentices. The Workplace Research Centre at the University of Sydney Business School, in conjunction with Professor Michael Bittman, recently completed the research on apprentice wages for the Electrical Trades Union.
MoreLatest research into links between education and work 22 Feb 2013
As part of a consortium with the University of Melbourne, the WRC is undertaking research into the links between and within education and work. More