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Professor Susan McGrath-Champ

BA(Hons) W.Aust.; MA Br.Col. ; PhD Macq.

Honorary Professor

Phone

+61 2 9351 6437

Fax

+61 2 9351 4729

Email

susan.mcgrathchamp@sydney.edu.au

Biographical details

Susan McGrath-Champ is Professor in Work and Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney Business School. She has a PhD from Macquarie University, Sydney and a Masters degree from the University of British Columbia, Canada.

Research interests

Susan’s main research interests lie in human resource management, and the geographical (spatial) aspects of work and employment. Her current and recent research includes studies of the effects of choice and competition on teachers’ working conditions, the role of labour in global production networks, gender pay equity, and organisations’ policies for the safety, security and evacuation of international assignees. She was awarded jointly a large Swedish-funded International Collaboration Grant for research concerning the effects of choice and competition on school teachers' work and working conditions, and has ongoing industry-funded collaboration in this area with organisations which are implementing the research findings.

As sole or lead chief investigator on Australian Research Council projects, Associate Professor McGrath-Champ has analysed the spatial aspects of enterprise agreements, examined training, migration and global aspects of the Australian construction industry and analysed restructuring of the coal industry. Susan was a recipient of an Exchange from the Australian Academy of Social Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, through which she researched performance management aspects of international assignments within international and global firms.

Susan is a member of groups which researchWomen, Work and Leadership,Global Cities and Global Value ChainsandEducational Practice in Business, and publishes in high level journals includingWork, Employment and Society, Journal of Economic Geography,andJournal of Education Policy.

Teaching and supervision

WORK2217 International Human Resource Management
WORK6108 International Dimensions of HRM

Selected publications

Industry 4.0 and the Future of Work: Global Production Networks, Global Disassembly Networks, and the Circular Economy

(Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2024)

Handbook of Employment and Society: Working Space

(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010)

Industrial Relations Developments

(Longman, 2000)

Publications

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Books

Rainnie, A., Herod, A., McGrath-Champ, S. (2024). Industry 4.0 and the Future of Work: Global Production Networks, Global Disassembly Networks, and the Circular Economy. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited. [More Information]
Baird, M., McGrath-Champ, S. (2000). Industrial Relations Developments. Frenchs Forest, N.S.W: Longman.

Edited Books

McGrath-Champ, S., Herod, A., Rainnie, A. (2010). Handbook of Employment and Society: Working Space. Cheltenham United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing. [More Information]

Book Chapters

Stacey, M., Fitzgerald, S., Wilson, R., McGrath-Champ, S., Gavin, M. (2024). Teachers, fixed-term contracts and school leadership: toeing the line and jumping through hoops. In A. McKay, J. Wilkinson (Eds.), Educational Leadership and Policy in a Time of Precarity. London: Routledge. [More Information]
Gavin, M., McGrath-Champ, S., Wilson, R., Fitzgerald, S., Stacey, M. (2022). Teacher Workload in Australia: National reports of intensification and its threats to democracy. In Not known (Eds.), New Perspectives on Education for Democracy: Creative Responses to Local and Global Challenges, (pp. 110-123). TBC. [More Information]
Veen, A., McGrath-Champ, S. (2021). Evolving Employment Relations in the Australian Construction Industry. In D. Belman, J. Druker, G. White (Eds.), Work and Labor Relations in the Construction Industry: An International Perspective, (pp. 34-56). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
Fee, A., McGrath-Champ, S., Berti, M. (2021). Protecting expatriates in hostile environments: institutional forces influencing the safety and security practices of internationally active organisations. In B. Bader, T. Schuster, M. Dickmann (Eds.), Danger and Risk as Challenges for HRM: Managing People in Hostile Environments. London: Routledge. [More Information]
McGrath-Champ, S., Gavin, M., Stacey, M. (2020). Strategy and policy: The 'professionalisation' of teaching and the work of an Australian teachers' union. In R.D. Lansbury, A. Johnson & D. van den Broek (Eds.), Contemporary Issues in Work and Organisations: Actors and Institutions, (pp. 110-126). London: Routledge. [More Information]
McGrath-Champ, S., Gavin, M., Stacey, M. (2019). Strategy and policy: The 'professionalisation' of teaching and the work of an Australian teachers' union. In R.D. Lansbury, A. Johnson & D. van den Broek (Eds.), Contemporary Issues in Work and Organisations: Actors and Institutions, (pp. 110-126). London: Routledge.
Handley, K., McGrath-Champ, S., Leung, P. (2017). A New Way of Working: Flexibility and Work-Life Balance in the Accounting Profession in Australia. In Y. Blount, & M. Gloet (Eds.), Anywhere Working and the New Era of Telecommuting, (pp. 113-143). Hershey: IGI Global. [More Information]
Herod, A., Pickren, G., Rainnie, A., McGrath-Champ, S. (2017). Innovation, development and global destruction networks. In H Bathelt, P Cohendet, S Henn, L Simon (Eds.), The Elgar Companion to Innovation and Knowledge Creation, (pp. 752-770). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. [More Information]
Rainnie, A., Herod, A., McGrath-Champ, S., Pickren, G. (2015). Wasted Commodities, Wasted Labour? Global Production and Destruction Networks and the Nature of Contemporary Capitalism. In Kirsty Newsome, Phil Taylor, Jennifer Bair, Al Rainnie (Eds.), Putting Labour in its Place: Labour Process Analysis and Global Value Chains, (pp. 249-265). London, United Kingdom: Palgrave. [More Information]
McGrath-Champ, S., Zou, M., Taylor, L. (2013). Exploring new frontiers in an internationalised classroom: Team-based learning and reflective journals as innovative learning strategies. In Janette Ryan (Eds.), Cross-Cultural Teaching and Learning for Home and International Students: Internationalisation of Pedagogy and Curriculum in Higher Education, (pp. 27-40). Oxon: Routledge. [More Information]
Herod, A., Rainnie, A., McGrath-Champ, S. (2011). Working Space: Why Incorporating the Geographical Is Central to Theorizing Work and Employment Practices. In Marian Baird, Rae Cooper, Bradon Ellem and Russell D Lansbury (Eds.), Industrial Relations - SAGE Library in Business and Management, (pp. 302-317). London, United Kingdom: Sage Publications.
Herod, A., McGrath-Champ, S., Rainnie, A. (2010). Foundations. In S McGrath-Champ, A Herod, A Rainnie (Eds.), Handbook of Employment and Society: Working Space, (pp. 1-16). Cheltenham United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Rainnie, A., McGrath-Champ, S., Herod, A. (2010). Making Space for Geography in Labour Process Theory. In Paul Thompson, Chris Smith (Eds.), Working Life: Renewing Labour Process Analysis, (pp. 297-315). Houndsmill, Basingstoke United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
McGrath-Champ, S., Fee, A., Yang, X. (2010). Performance management of expatriates in China. In Julia Connell, Stephen Teo (Eds.), Strategic HRM: Contemporary Issues in the Asia Pacific Region, (pp. 284-306). Australia: Tilde University Press.
Rainnie, A., Herod, A., McGrath-Champ, S. (2010). Workers in Space. In S McGrath-Champ, A Herod, A Rainnie (Eds.), Handbook of Employment and Society: Working Space, (pp. 249-272). Cheltenham United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Rainnie, A., McGrath-Champ, S., Herod, A. (2010). Working Spaces. In S McGrath-Champ, A Herod, A Rainnie (Eds.), Handbook of Employment and Society: Working Space, (pp. 61-83). Cheltenham United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing.
McGrath-Champ, S. (2006). A spatial perspective on international work and management: Illustrations from China. In Mark Hearn and Grant Michelson (Eds.), Rethinking Work, Time, Space and Discourse, (pp. 165-186). Port Melbourne, Australia: Cambridge University Press.
McGrath-Champ, S., Yang, X. (2006). The performance management-training interface in Australian firms in China. In Felicia M.Fai and Eleanor J. Morgan (Eds.), Managerial Issues in International Business, (pp. 141-161). Basingstoke, Hampshire & New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
McGrath-Champ, S. (2005). The New Regionalism and Employment Relations in Australia. In Al Rainnie, Mardelene Grobbelaar (Eds.), New Regionalism in Australia, (pp. 199-216). United Kingdom: Ashgate.
McGrath-Champ, S. (2003). Employment benefits in enterprise agreements: an overview of recent provisions. In Marian Baird, John Burgess (Eds.), Employee Entitlements in Australia: Proceedings of conference "Employee Entitlements in Australia" held at University of Sydney, (pp. 26-34). Newcastle, N.S.W: University of Newcastle, Employment Studies Centre.
McGrath-Champ, S., Baird, M. (2003). Human resource management in the era of enterprise bargaining. In John Burgess and Duncan Macdonald (Eds.), Developments in Enterprise Bargaining in Australia, (pp. 197-215). Victoria: Tertiary Press.

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Journals

Parding, K., Gavin, M., Wilson, R., Fitzgerald, S., Jakobsson, M., McGrath-Champ, S. (2024). Intra-professional collaboration and organization of work among teachers: How entangled institutional logics shape connectivity. Journal of Professions and Organization, 11(1), 83-98. [More Information]
Stacey, M., Gavin, M., Fitzgerald, S., McGrath-Champ, S., Wilson, R. (2024). Reducing teachers’ workload or deskilling ‘core’ work? Analysis of a policy response to teacher workload demands. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 45(2), 187-199. [More Information]
Gavin, M., McGrath-Champ, S. (2024). Teacher workload and the organisation of work: a research agenda for a post-pandemic future. Labour and Industry, 24(1), 88-99. [More Information]
McGrath-Champ, S., Fitzgerald, S., Gavin, M., Stacey, M., Wilson, R. (2023). Labour Commodification in the Employment Heartland: Union Responses to Teachers' Temporary Work. Work, Employment and Society, 37(5), 1165-1185. [More Information]
Stacey, M., McGrath-Champ, S., Wilson, R. (2023). Teacher attributions of workload increase in public sector schools: Reflections on change and policy development. Journal of Educational Change, 24(4), 971-993. [More Information]
Keddie, A., MacDonald, K., Blackmore, J., Boyask, R., Fitzgerald, S., Gavin, M., Heffernan, A., Hursh, D., McGrath-Champ, S., Møller, J., Wilson, R., et al (2023). What needs to happen for school autonomy to be mobilised to create more equitable public schools and systems of education? Australian Educational Researcher, 50(5), 1571-1597. [More Information]
McGrath-Champ, S., Gavin, M., Stacey, M., Wilson, R. (2022). Collaborating for policy impact: Academic-practitioner collaboration in industrial relations research. Journal of Industrial Relations, 64(5), 759-784. [More Information]
Gavin, M., Fitzgerald, S., McGrath-Champ, S. (2022). From marketising to empowering: Evaluating union responses to devolutionary policies in education. The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 33(1), 80-99. [More Information]
Stacey, M., Fitzgerald, S., Wilson, R., McGrath-Champ, S., Gavin, M. (2022). Teachers, fixed-term contracts and school leadership: Toeing the line and jumping through hoops. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 54(1), 54-68. [More Information]
Stacey, M., Wilson, R., McGrath-Champ, S. (2022). Triage in teaching: The nature and impact of workload in schools. Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 42(4), 772-785. [More Information]
Gavin, M., McGrath-Champ, S., Stacey, M., Wilson, R. (2022). Women's participation in teacher unions: Implications of a 'triple burden' for union gender equality strategies. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 42(3), 830-852. [More Information]
Parding, K., McGrath-Champ, S., Stacey, M. (2021). Governance reform in context: Welfare sector professionals' working and employment conditions. Current Sociology, 69(1), 119-139. [More Information]
Fitzgerald, S., McGrath-Champ, S., Stacey, M., Wilson, R., Gavin, M. (2019). Intensification of teachers' work under devolution: A "tsunami" of paperwork. Journal of Industrial Relations, 61(5), 613-636. [More Information]
McGrath-Champ, S., Stacey, M., Wilson, R., Fitzgerald, S., Rainnie, A., Parding, K. (2019). Principals' support for teachers' working conditions in devolved school settings: Insights from two Australian States. Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 47(4), 590-605. [More Information]
Fee, A., McGrath-Champ, S., Berti, M. (2019). Protecting expatriates in hostile environments: institutional forces influencing the safety and security practices of internationally active organisations. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 30(11), 1709-1736. [More Information]
Fitzgerald, S., Stacey, M., McGrath-Champ, S., Parding, K., Rainnie, A. (2018). Devolution, market dynamics and the Independent Public School initiative in Western Australia: 'winning back' what has been lost? Journal of Education Policy, 33(5), 662-681. [More Information]
Gavin, M., McGrath-Champ, S. (2017). Devolving authority: the impact of giving public schools power to hire staff. Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, 55(2), 255-274. [More Information]
Parding, K., Berg-Jansson, A., Sehlstedt, T., McGrath-Champ, S., Fitzgerald, S. (2017). Differentiation as a consequence of choice and decentralization reforms-conditions for teachers' competence development. Professions and Professionalism, 7(2), 1-15. [More Information]
Parding, K., McGrath-Champ, S., Stacey, M. (2017). Teachers, school choice and competition: Lock-in effects within and between sectors. Policy Futures in Education, 15(1), 113-128. [More Information]
Fee, A., McGrath-Champ, S. (2017). The role of human resources in protecting expatriates: insights from the international aid and development sector. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 28(14), 1960-1985. [More Information]
McGrath-Champ, S., Rainnie, A., Pickren, G., Herod, A. (2015). Global destruction networks, the labour process and employment relations. Journal of Industrial Relations, 57(4), 624-640. [More Information]
Liu, H., McGrath-Champ, S. (2014). 'Inspired by Business': A case of mentoring among low socio-economic students. International Studies in Widening Participation, 1(1), 2-14.
Herod, A., Pickren, G., Rainnie, A., McGrath-Champ, S. (2014). Global destruction networks, labour, and waste. Journal of Economic Geography, 14(2), 421-441. [More Information]
McGrath-Champ, S., Jefferson, T. (2013). Gender and pay equity in a global knowledge organisation. The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 24(1), 97-123. [More Information]
Rainnie, A., Herod, A., McGrath-Champ, S. (2013). Global production networks, labour and small firms. Capital and Class, 37(2), 177-195. [More Information]
Fee, A., McGrath-Champ, S., Liu, H. (2013). Human resources and expatriate evacuation: a conceptual model. Journal of Global Mobility: the home of expatriate management research, 1(3), 246-263. [More Information]
Shin, J., McGrath-Champ, S. (2013). Informal Skill Formation and the Division of Labour: The Case of Korean Tiling Workers in Sydney. Journal of Industrial Relations, 55(1), 80-99. [More Information]
Herod, A., Pickren, G., Rainnie, A., McGrath-Champ, S. (2013). Waste, commodity fetishism and the ongoingness of economic life. Area, 45(3), 376-382. [More Information]
Ellem, B., McGrath-Champ, S. (2012). Labor geography and labor history: insights and outcomes from a decade of cross-disciplinary dialogue. Labor History, 53(3), 355-372. [More Information]
Taylor, L., McGrath-Champ, S., Clarkeburn, H. (2012). Supporting student self-study: The educational design of podcasts in a collaborative learning context. Active Learning in Higher Education, 13(1), 77-90. [More Information]
Fee, A., McGrath-Champ, S., Yang, X. (2011). Expatriate performance management and firm internationalization: Australian multinationals in China. Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, 49(3), 365-384. [More Information]
McGrath-Champ, S., Rosewarne, S., Rittau, Y. (2011). From one skill shortage to the next: The Australian construction industry and geographies of a global labour market. Journal of Industrial Relations, 53(4), 467-485. [More Information]
Rainnie, A., Herod, A., McGrath-Champ, S. (2011). Review and positions: global production networks and labour. Competition and Change, 15(2), 155-169. [More Information]
McGrath-Champ, S., Rosewarne, S., Rittau, Y. (2010). Education, Skill and Unions in the Australian Construction Industry. Labour and Industry, 21(1), 438-462.
McGrath-Champ, S., Rosewarne, S. (2009). Organizational change in Australian building and construction: Rethinking a unilinear 'leaning' discourse. Construction Management and Economics, 27(11), 1111-1128. [More Information]
Kamvounias, P., McGrath-Champ, S., Yip, J. (2008). "Gifts" in mentoring: mentees' reflections on an academic development program. International Journal for Academic Development, 13(1), 17-25.
McGrath-Champ, S. (2008). Organizational Change and Innovation in the Australian Building and Construction Industry. Review of Management Innovation and Creativity (RMIC), 1(2), 41-51.
Rainnie, A., Herod, A., McGrath-Champ, S. (2007). Spatialising industrial relations. Industrial Relations Journal, 38(2), 102-118.
Herod, A., Rainnie, A., McGrath-Champ, S. (2007). Working space: why incorporating the geographical is central to theorizing work and employment practices. Work, Employment and Society, 21(2), 247-264. [More Information]
McGrath-Champ, S. (2005). Enterprise Bargaining and Regional Prospects: The Effects of Rescaling Wage Regulation in Australia. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 26(3), 413-442. [More Information]
McGrath-Champ, S. (2005). Globalization's Challenge to Labour: Rescaling Work and Employment. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 26(3), 323-334. [More Information]
McGrath-Champ, S., Searle, G. (2005). Regional policies over the last decade: Imprinting working nation. Journal of Economic and Social Policy, 9(2), 89-109.
McGrath-Champ, S., Baird, M. (2005). The mercurial nature of Australian HRM under enterprise bargaining. Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, 43(1), 155-173.
McGrath-Champ, S. (2003). Employment benefits in enterprise agreements: An overview. Australian Bulletin of Labour, 29(1), 46-61.
McGrath-Champ, S. (2002). Back to the Map? Enterprising agreements in rural, regional and urban Australia. Labour and Industry, 13(2), 118-145.
McGrath-Champ, S. (2002). Book Review: Regional Employment Relations at Work: The Illawarra Regional Workplace Industrial Relations Survey. International Journal of Employment Studies, 10(1), 158-161.
McGrath-Champ, S., Ellem, B. (2002). Industrial Relations Meets Human Geography: Spatialising the Social Relations of Work. Labour and Industry, 13(2), 1-3.
McGrath-Champ, S., Carter, S. (2001). The art of selling corporate culture : management and human resources in Australian construction companies operating in Malaysia. International Journal of Manpower, 22(4), 349-365.

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Conferences

Parding, K., McGrath-Champ, S., Stacey, M., Berg-Jansson, A. (2019). Governance reform and the differentiation of employment and working conditions - the case of upper secondary teachers in Sweden. 33rd Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ) Conference, Melbourne, Australia: Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ).
McGrath-Champ, S., Gavin, M., Stacey, M. (2019). Occupational and organisational professionalisation: Teaching, work and the case of an Australian Teachers' Union. 33rd Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ) Conference, Melbourne, Australia: Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ).
Fitzgerald, S., McGrath-Champ, S., Stacey, M., Wilson, R., Gavin, M. (2019). The work and workload experiences of fixed contract teachers: New casualisation of staff in schools? 33rd Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ) Conference, Melbourne, Australia: Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ).
McGrath-Champ, S., Gavin, M., Stacey, M., Wilson, R., Fitzgerald, S. (2018). Reconciling teachers' workload and wellbeing: an examination of system demands around workload affecting women's roles as teachers and union activists. Gender, Work and Organisation 10th Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference, Sydney 13-16 June.
McGrath-Champ, S., Stacey, M., Wilson, R., Parding, K., Fitzgerald, S., Rainnie, A. (2018). Teachers' strategies to survive work overload. 32nd Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ) Conference, Adelaide SA Australia 7-9 February.
McGrath-Champ, S., Wilson, R., Stacey, M., Fitzgerald, S. (2018). Understanding Work in Schools (Keynote Presentation). Annual Conference of the NSW Teachers Federation, Sydney Australia 9 July.
Fitzgerald, S., McGrath-Champ, S., Stacey, M., Wilson, R., Parding, K., Rainnie, A. (2018). Work Intensification in Neoliberal Times: Insights from the Australian Education System. XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Toronto, Canada: International Sociological Association (ISA).
Fitzgerald, S., McGrath-Champ, S., Wilson, R., Stacey, M. (2017). A "tsunami of paperwork": Professionally engaged teachers' reports on changes to conditions of work and employment conditions under devolution. 31st Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ) Conference, Canberra, 10th February.
Zettna, N., McGrath-Champ, S., Johnson, A. (2017). Behind the Smiles: Collectivism and uncertainty avoidance - Exploring the moderating effect of power distance on employee silence. 31st Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management ANZAM Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 5-8 December 2017: Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management ANZAM.
McGrath-Champ, S., Wilson, R., Stacey, M. (2017). Teaching and learning: Review of workload. NSW Teachers Federation Annual Conference, Sydney, 4th July.
McGrath-Champ, S., Wilson, R., Stacey, M., Fitzgerald, S. (2016). "I just try and be nice to them, I tell a few jokes": Principals explain their changing roles and support for staff in two devolved Australian schooling systems. Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Annual Conference, 2016, Melbourne: Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE). [More Information]
Zettna, N., McGrath-Champ, S. (2016). Behind the smiles: a study of cultural factors and employee silence in Thai manufacturing. Thailand in Comparative Perspective: An International Symposium, University of Sydney: University of Sydney.
Fitzgerald, S., McGrath-Champ, S., Wilson, R., Rainnie, A., Parding, K. (2016). They'll open the jail door but they'll put a ball and chain on your ankle: Changing management of teachers' labour process. 30th Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand AIRAANZ Conference: Building Sustainable Workforce Futures, Sydney, 12th February.
Liu, H., McGrath-Champ, S., Fletcher, S. (2013). 'Inspired by Business': A case of mentoring among disadvantaged first year students. 16th International First Year in Higher Education Conference, Wellington, New Zealand: First Year in Higher Education.
McGrath-Champ, S., Fee, A., Liu, H. (2013). Emergency expatriate evacuation: Literature and research. 27th Conference of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand AIRAANZ 2013 - Work, employment and employment relations in an uneven patchwork world, Freemantle: Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ).
Fee, A., McGrath-Champ, S. (2013). Managing Expatriate Evacuations in Times of Crisis: A Cross-Industry Comparison. 73rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management 2013, Orlando, United States: Academy of Management. [More Information]
McGrath-Champ, S., Zou, M., Taylor, L. (2011). Managing diversity: Workplace and classroom connections. 25th Conference of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand AIRAANZ 2011, New Zealand: Auckland University of Technology.
McGrath-Champ, S., Zou, M., Taylor, L. (2010). Deploying Student Diversity as a Microcosm of the World: Teaching Work and Employment Issues in an Internationalised Classroom. Internationalising Learning and Teaching in Academic Settings: Engagement, Collaboration and Sustainability, Australia: Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney.
McGrath-Champ, S., Rainnie, A., Herod, A. (2010). Progressing work: How spatial approaches change our theories of work and labour. 24th Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand AIRAANZ Conference 2010, Australia: Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ).
McGrath-Champ, S., Rosewarne, S. (2009). The Australian Construction Industry: Skills Challenges and the Global Labour Market. 23rd Conference of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand AIRAANZ 2009, Australia: Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ).
Yang, X., McGrath-Champ, S., Fee, A. (2008). Expatriate Performance Management and Firm Internationalisation: Evidence from China and Hong Kong. Australia and New Zealand Chapter of the Academy of International Business Symposium on Research and Teaching in International Business 2008, Australia: Academy of International Business - Australia and New Zealand Chapter.
Kamvounias, P., McGrath-Champ, S., Yip, J. (2008). Mentoring in academic settings: The views of mentees. Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference AARE 2007, Australia: Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE).
Kamvounias, P., McGrath-Champ, S., Yip, J. (2008). Reflections on a Formal Mentoring Program. 6th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education 2008, United States: Hawaii International Conference on Education.
Freeman, M., McGrath-Champ, S. (2007). To Adopt or Not Adopt Team-based Learning: A Diffusion of Innovations Analysis. Team Based Learning Conference TBL 2007, Canada: Creative Commons.
McGrath-Champ, S., Rosewarne, S., Toner, P. (2006). 'Skills infrastructure and structural transformation of the building and construction industry'. Social Actors, Work Organization and New Technologies in the 21st Century. IIRA 14th World Congress, N/A: International Industrial Relations Association (IIRA).
McGrath-Champ, S. (2006). Industrial relations and space: new global frontiers. International Industrial Relations Association 14th World Congress. International Industrial Relations Association European Chapter.
Shik Shin, J., McGrath-Champ, S., Rosewarne, S. (2006). Migration and Migrants in the Australian Construction Industry: Issues Facing Tiling Workers in the Sydney Metropolitan Area. 4th Asia-Pacific Building Unions Seminar, N/A.
Freeman, M., McGrath-Champ, S., Clark, S., Taylor, L. (2006). The case for assessable in-class team-based learning. UniServe Science Symposium 2006, The University of Sydney: Uniserve Science.
Rosewarne, S., Shin, J., McGrath-Champ, S., Toner, P. (2006). The globalisation of the construction work force: the impact on the Australian building and construction industry. 4th Asia-Pacific Building Unions Seminar, N/A.
McGrath-Champ, S., Yang, X., Kang, R. (2005). The effects of performance -management and cross-cultural training on outcomes of international: assignments: Preliminary Australia-China findings'. 19th Conference of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand AIRAANZ 2005, Australia: Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ).
McGrath-Champ, S. (2004). Enterprise Bargaining and Australia's New Regional Economies: The Effects of Rescaling Wage Regulation. 18th AIRAANZ Conference: New Economies, New Industrial Relations. Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ).
Rosewarne, S., McGrath-Champ, S., Toner, P., Morgan, C. (2004). Labour Force Challenges in the Australian Building and Construction Industry: Skills Infrastructure and Migrant Workers. Labour Force Challenges in the Australian Building and Construction Industry: Skills Infrastructure and Migrant Workers, Sydney University.
McGrath-Champ, S., Yang, X., Kang, R. (2004). Performance Management And Cross-Cultural Training In Australian Firms In China. Australia and New Zealand International Business Academy Conference ANZIBA 2004, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia: University of Canberra.
Shin, J., McGrath-Champ, S., Rosewarne, S. (2004). The impact of Korean-speaking migrant workers on the skill formation and the labour market in the Australian construction industry. International Industrial Relations Association, Asian Regional Congress, Seoul, South Korea: International Industrial Relations Association.
McGrath-Champ, S. (2004). Wages And Enterprise Agreements: What Factors Influence Pay Outcomes. 12th Annual Conference of the International Employment Relations Association (IERA 2004) "Regionalism and Globalisation: The Challenge for Employment Relations", Rockhampton: International Employment Relations Association.
McGrath-Champ, S., Baird, M. (2003). Enterprise bargaining, the network economy and the changing nature of human resource management: an Australian perspective. The International Industrial Relations Association World Congress, Germany.
McGrath-Champ, S., Yang, X. (2002). Cross Cultural Training, Expatriate Quality of (Work?) Life and Venture Performance. Employment Relations Unit Annual Conference 2002.
McGrath-Champ, S., Yang, X. (2002). Expatriate management, venture performance and the "New Economy": Insights from exploratory Australia-China research. Fourth Conference on Multinational Business Economy.
McGrath-Champ, S. (2002). Regional Patterns of Wage Outcomes in Australian Enterprise Agreements. Tenth Annual Conference of the International Employment Relations Association, Australia: International Employment Relations Association.
McGrath-Champ, S. (2002). Space, Scale and Industrial Relations: Enterprise Agreements in Rural, Regional and Urban Australia. The 16th Conference of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand, New Zealand: University of Otago Printery.
McGrath-Champ, S., Baird, M. (2002). The Changing Role and Practice of Australian Human Resource Management in the Era of Enterprise Bargaining. Ten Years of Enterprise Bargaining Conference, Newcastle University: Ten Years of Enterprise Bargaining Conference.
McGrath-Champ, S. (2002). The New Regionalism, Regional Development Policy and Employment Relations in Australia. The 'New Regionalism' in Australia: A new model of work, organisation and regional governance?.
McGrath-Champ, S. (2002). What Place for Space? Issues and Analysis in Industrial Relations and Labour Geography. Third Joint Conference of the New Zealand Geographical Society and Institute of Australian Geographers, New Zealand: New Zealand Geographical Society.
McGrath-Champ, S., Yang, X., Chao, G. (2001). Effects of expatriate training on firm performance: A conceptual approach. Academy of International Business Conference 2001.
McGrath-Champ, S. (2001). Space, scale and employment relations: Enterprise agreements in rural, regional and urban Australia. 2001 Joint Symposium of the Economic Geography Study Group of the Institute of Australian Geographers and Work and Organisational Studies Discipline, Sydney: University of Sydney.
McGrath-Champ, S. (2001). Towards a geographicallyâ€“informed industrial relations discipline. Future of Industrial Relations Symposium 2001.

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Report

Wilson, R., McGrath-Champ, S., Gavin, M., Stacey, M., Fitzgerald, S. (2023). NSW Parliament Inquiry into teacher shortages in New South Wales Submission from the Teachers' Work in Schools Research Team. [More Information]
Wilson, R., McGrath-Champ, S., Gavin, M., Stacey, M., Fitzgerald, S. (2022). Submission to Productivity Commission Review of National School Reform Agreement. [More Information]
McGrath-Champ, S., Wilson, R., Fitzgerald, S., Stacey, M., Gavin, M. (2020). Valuing the Teaching Profession Inquiry - Submission from the Teachers' Work in Schools Research Team.
Fitzgerald, S., McGrath-Champ, S., Wilson, R., Stacey, M. (2019). Understanding Work in WA Public Schools: 2019 Report to the State School Teachers Union of WA. [More Information]
McGrath-Champ, S., Wilson, R., Fitzgerald, S., Stacey, M., Gavin, M., Parding, K. (2018). Submission to the Employment, Education and Training Standing Committee, Valuing Australia's Teachers - Inquiry into the Status of the Teaching Profession. [More Information]
McGrath-Champ, S., Wilson, R., Stacey, M., Fitzgerald, S. (2018). Understanding Work in Schools: The Foundation for Teaching and Learning (2018 Report to the NSW Teachers Federation). [More Information]
McGrath-Champ, S., Wilson, R., Stacey, M. (2017). Teaching and Learning: Review of Workload (Report to the NSW Teachers Federation). [More Information]
Fitzgerald, S., McGrath-Champ, S., Wilson, R., Stacey, M., Rainnie, A. (2016). Submission. Education and Health Standing Committee Inquiry into the Department of Education's Independent Public Schools Initiative. [More Information]

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Research Reports

Handley, K., Leung, P., McGrath-Champ, S., Kidd, M. (2015). Work Conditions, Balance and Gender Equity: A Study of Chartered Accountants 1995 to 2013, (pp. 11 - 29). Sydney, Australia: Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand.

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2024

Rainnie, A., Herod, A., McGrath-Champ, S. (2024). Industry 4.0 and the Future of Work: Global Production Networks, Global Disassembly Networks, and the Circular Economy. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited. [More Information]
Parding, K., Gavin, M., Wilson, R., Fitzgerald, S., Jakobsson, M., McGrath-Champ, S. (2024). Intra-professional collaboration and organization of work among teachers: How entangled institutional logics shape connectivity. Journal of Professions and Organization, 11(1), 83-98. [More Information]
Stacey, M., Gavin, M., Fitzgerald, S., McGrath-Champ, S., Wilson, R. (2024). Reducing teachers’ workload or deskilling ‘core’ work? Analysis of a policy response to teacher workload demands. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 45(2), 187-199. [More Information]
Gavin, M., McGrath-Champ, S. (2024). Teacher workload and the organisation of work: a research agenda for a post-pandemic future. Labour and Industry, 24(1), 88-99. [More Information]
Stacey, M., Fitzgerald, S., Wilson, R., McGrath-Champ, S., Gavin, M. (2024). Teachers, fixed-term contracts and school leadership: toeing the line and jumping through hoops. In A. McKay, J. Wilkinson (Eds.), Educational Leadership and Policy in a Time of Precarity. London: Routledge. [More Information]

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2023

McGrath-Champ, S., Fitzgerald, S., Gavin, M., Stacey, M., Wilson, R. (2023). Labour Commodification in the Employment Heartland: Union Responses to Teachers' Temporary Work. Work, Employment and Society, 37(5), 1165-1185. [More Information]
Wilson, R., McGrath-Champ, S., Gavin, M., Stacey, M., Fitzgerald, S. (2023). NSW Parliament Inquiry into teacher shortages in New South Wales Submission from the Teachers' Work in Schools Research Team. [More Information]
Stacey, M., McGrath-Champ, S., Wilson, R. (2023). Teacher attributions of workload increase in public sector schools: Reflections on change and policy development. Journal of Educational Change, 24(4), 971-993. [More Information]
Keddie, A., MacDonald, K., Blackmore, J., Boyask, R., Fitzgerald, S., Gavin, M., Heffernan, A., Hursh, D., McGrath-Champ, S., Møller, J., Wilson, R., et al (2023). What needs to happen for school autonomy to be mobilised to create more equitable public schools and systems of education? Australian Educational Researcher, 50(5), 1571-1597. [More Information]

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2022

McGrath-Champ, S., Gavin, M., Stacey, M., Wilson, R. (2022). Collaborating for policy impact: Academic-practitioner collaboration in industrial relations research. Journal of Industrial Relations, 64(5), 759-784. [More Information]
Gavin, M., Fitzgerald, S., McGrath-Champ, S. (2022). From marketising to empowering: Evaluating union responses to devolutionary policies in education. The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 33(1), 80-99. [More Information]
Wilson, R., McGrath-Champ, S., Gavin, M., Stacey, M., Fitzgerald, S. (2022). Submission to Productivity Commission Review of National School Reform Agreement. [More Information]
Gavin, M., McGrath-Champ, S., Wilson, R., Fitzgerald, S., Stacey, M. (2022). Teacher Workload in Australia: National reports of intensification and its threats to democracy. In Not known (Eds.), New Perspectives on Education for Democracy: Creative Responses to Local and Global Challenges, (pp. 110-123). TBC. [More Information]
Stacey, M., Fitzgerald, S., Wilson, R., McGrath-Champ, S., Gavin, M. (2022). Teachers, fixed-term contracts and school leadership: Toeing the line and jumping through hoops. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 54(1), 54-68. [More Information]
Stacey, M., Wilson, R., McGrath-Champ, S. (2022). Triage in teaching: The nature and impact of workload in schools. Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 42(4), 772-785. [More Information]
Gavin, M., McGrath-Champ, S., Stacey, M., Wilson, R. (2022). Women's participation in teacher unions: Implications of a 'triple burden' for union gender equality strategies. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 42(3), 830-852. [More Information]

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2021

Veen, A., McGrath-Champ, S. (2021). Evolving Employment Relations in the Australian Construction Industry. In D. Belman, J. Druker, G. White (Eds.), Work and Labor Relations in the Construction Industry: An International Perspective, (pp. 34-56). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
Parding, K., McGrath-Champ, S., Stacey, M. (2021). Governance reform in context: Welfare sector professionals' working and employment conditions. Current Sociology, 69(1), 119-139. [More Information]
Fee, A., McGrath-Champ, S., Berti, M. (2021). Protecting expatriates in hostile environments: institutional forces influencing the safety and security practices of internationally active organisations. In B. Bader, T. Schuster, M. Dickmann (Eds.), Danger and Risk as Challenges for HRM: Managing People in Hostile Environments. London: Routledge. [More Information]

2020

McGrath-Champ, S., Gavin, M., Stacey, M. (2020). Strategy and policy: The 'professionalisation' of teaching and the work of an Australian teachers' union. In R.D. Lansbury, A. Johnson & D. van den Broek (Eds.), Contemporary Issues in Work and Organisations: Actors and Institutions, (pp. 110-126). London: Routledge. [More Information]
McGrath-Champ, S., Wilson, R., Fitzgerald, S., Stacey, M., Gavin, M. (2020). Valuing the Teaching Profession Inquiry - Submission from the Teachers' Work in Schools Research Team.

2019

Parding, K., McGrath-Champ, S., Stacey, M., Berg-Jansson, A. (2019). Governance reform and the differentiation of employment and working conditions - the case of upper secondary teachers in Sweden. 33rd Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ) Conference, Melbourne, Australia: Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ).
Fitzgerald, S., McGrath-Champ, S., Stacey, M., Wilson, R., Gavin, M. (2019). Intensification of teachers' work under devolution: A "tsunami" of paperwork. Journal of Industrial Relations, 61(5), 613-636. [More Information]
McGrath-Champ, S., Gavin, M., Stacey, M. (2019). Occupational and organisational professionalisation: Teaching, work and the case of an Australian Teachers' Union. 33rd Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ) Conference, Melbourne, Australia: Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ).
McGrath-Champ, S., Stacey, M., Wilson, R., Fitzgerald, S., Rainnie, A., Parding, K. (2019). Principals' support for teachers' working conditions in devolved school settings: Insights from two Australian States. Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 47(4), 590-605. [More Information]
Fee, A., McGrath-Champ, S., Berti, M. (2019). Protecting expatriates in hostile environments: institutional forces influencing the safety and security practices of internationally active organisations. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 30(11), 1709-1736. [More Information]
McGrath-Champ, S., Gavin, M., Stacey, M. (2019). Strategy and policy: The 'professionalisation' of teaching and the work of an Australian teachers' union. In R.D. Lansbury, A. Johnson & D. van den Broek (Eds.), Contemporary Issues in Work and Organisations: Actors and Institutions, (pp. 110-126). London: Routledge.
Fitzgerald, S., McGrath-Champ, S., Stacey, M., Wilson, R., Gavin, M. (2019). The work and workload experiences of fixed contract teachers: New casualisation of staff in schools? 33rd Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ) Conference, Melbourne, Australia: Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ).
Fitzgerald, S., McGrath-Champ, S., Wilson, R., Stacey, M. (2019). Understanding Work in WA Public Schools: 2019 Report to the State School Teachers Union of WA. [More Information]

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2018

Fitzgerald, S., Stacey, M., McGrath-Champ, S., Parding, K., Rainnie, A. (2018). Devolution, market dynamics and the Independent Public School initiative in Western Australia: 'winning back' what has been lost? Journal of Education Policy, 33(5), 662-681. [More Information]
McGrath-Champ, S., Gavin, M., Stacey, M., Wilson, R., Fitzgerald, S. (2018). Reconciling teachers' workload and wellbeing: an examination of system demands around workload affecting women's roles as teachers and union activists. Gender, Work and Organisation 10th Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference, Sydney 13-16 June.
McGrath-Champ, S., Wilson, R., Fitzgerald, S., Stacey, M., Gavin, M., Parding, K. (2018). Submission to the Employment, Education and Training Standing Committee, Valuing Australia's Teachers - Inquiry into the Status of the Teaching Profession. [More Information]
McGrath-Champ, S., Stacey, M., Wilson, R., Parding, K., Fitzgerald, S., Rainnie, A. (2018). Teachers' strategies to survive work overload. 32nd Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ) Conference, Adelaide SA Australia 7-9 February.
McGrath-Champ, S., Wilson, R., Stacey, M., Fitzgerald, S. (2018). Understanding Work in Schools (Keynote Presentation). Annual Conference of the NSW Teachers Federation, Sydney Australia 9 July.
McGrath-Champ, S., Wilson, R., Stacey, M., Fitzgerald, S. (2018). Understanding Work in Schools: The Foundation for Teaching and Learning (2018 Report to the NSW Teachers Federation). [More Information]
Fitzgerald, S., McGrath-Champ, S., Stacey, M., Wilson, R., Parding, K., Rainnie, A. (2018). Work Intensification in Neoliberal Times: Insights from the Australian Education System. XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Toronto, Canada: International Sociological Association (ISA).

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2017

Fitzgerald, S., McGrath-Champ, S., Wilson, R., Stacey, M. (2017). A "tsunami of paperwork": Professionally engaged teachers' reports on changes to conditions of work and employment conditions under devolution. 31st Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ) Conference, Canberra, 10th February.
Handley, K., McGrath-Champ, S., Leung, P. (2017). A New Way of Working: Flexibility and Work-Life Balance in the Accounting Profession in Australia. In Y. Blount, & M. Gloet (Eds.), Anywhere Working and the New Era of Telecommuting, (pp. 113-143). Hershey: IGI Global. [More Information]
Zettna, N., McGrath-Champ, S., Johnson, A. (2017). Behind the Smiles: Collectivism and uncertainty avoidance - Exploring the moderating effect of power distance on employee silence. 31st Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management ANZAM Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 5-8 December 2017: Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management ANZAM.
Gavin, M., McGrath-Champ, S. (2017). Devolving authority: the impact of giving public schools power to hire staff. Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, 55(2), 255-274. [More Information]
Parding, K., Berg-Jansson, A., Sehlstedt, T., McGrath-Champ, S., Fitzgerald, S. (2017). Differentiation as a consequence of choice and decentralization reforms-conditions for teachers' competence development. Professions and Professionalism, 7(2), 1-15. [More Information]
Herod, A., Pickren, G., Rainnie, A., McGrath-Champ, S. (2017). Innovation, development and global destruction networks. In H Bathelt, P Cohendet, S Henn, L Simon (Eds.), The Elgar Companion to Innovation and Knowledge Creation, (pp. 752-770). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. [More Information]
Parding, K., McGrath-Champ, S., Stacey, M. (2017). Teachers, school choice and competition: Lock-in effects within and between sectors. Policy Futures in Education, 15(1), 113-128. [More Information]
McGrath-Champ, S., Wilson, R., Stacey, M. (2017). Teaching and learning: Review of workload. NSW Teachers Federation Annual Conference, Sydney, 4th July.
McGrath-Champ, S., Wilson, R., Stacey, M. (2017). Teaching and Learning: Review of Workload (Report to the NSW Teachers Federation). [More Information]
Fee, A., McGrath-Champ, S. (2017). The role of human resources in protecting expatriates: insights from the international aid and development sector. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 28(14), 1960-1985. [More Information]

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2016

McGrath-Champ, S., Wilson, R., Stacey, M., Fitzgerald, S. (2016). "I just try and be nice to them, I tell a few jokes": Principals explain their changing roles and support for staff in two devolved Australian schooling systems. Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Annual Conference, 2016, Melbourne: Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE). [More Information]
Zettna, N., McGrath-Champ, S. (2016). Behind the smiles: a study of cultural factors and employee silence in Thai manufacturing. Thailand in Comparative Perspective: An International Symposium, University of Sydney: University of Sydney.
Fitzgerald, S., McGrath-Champ, S., Wilson, R., Stacey, M., Rainnie, A. (2016). Submission. Education and Health Standing Committee Inquiry into the Department of Education's Independent Public Schools Initiative. [More Information]
Fitzgerald, S., McGrath-Champ, S., Wilson, R., Rainnie, A., Parding, K. (2016). They'll open the jail door but they'll put a ball and chain on your ankle: Changing management of teachers' labour process. 30th Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand AIRAANZ Conference: Building Sustainable Workforce Futures, Sydney, 12th February.

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2015

McGrath-Champ, S., Rainnie, A., Pickren, G., Herod, A. (2015). Global destruction networks, the labour process and employment relations. Journal of Industrial Relations, 57(4), 624-640. [More Information]
Rainnie, A., Herod, A., McGrath-Champ, S., Pickren, G. (2015). Wasted Commodities, Wasted Labour? Global Production and Destruction Networks and the Nature of Contemporary Capitalism. In Kirsty Newsome, Phil Taylor, Jennifer Bair, Al Rainnie (Eds.), Putting Labour in its Place: Labour Process Analysis and Global Value Chains, (pp. 249-265). London, United Kingdom: Palgrave. [More Information]
Handley, K., Leung, P., McGrath-Champ, S., Kidd, M. (2015). Work Conditions, Balance and Gender Equity: A Study of Chartered Accountants 1995 to 2013, (pp. 11 - 29). Sydney, Australia: Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand.

2014

Liu, H., McGrath-Champ, S. (2014). 'Inspired by Business': A case of mentoring among low socio-economic students. International Studies in Widening Participation, 1(1), 2-14.
Herod, A., Pickren, G., Rainnie, A., McGrath-Champ, S. (2014). Global destruction networks, labour, and waste. Journal of Economic Geography, 14(2), 421-441. [More Information]

2013

Liu, H., McGrath-Champ, S., Fletcher, S. (2013). 'Inspired by Business': A case of mentoring among disadvantaged first year students. 16th International First Year in Higher Education Conference, Wellington, New Zealand: First Year in Higher Education.
McGrath-Champ, S., Fee, A., Liu, H. (2013). Emergency expatriate evacuation: Literature and research. 27th Conference of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand AIRAANZ 2013 - Work, employment and employment relations in an uneven patchwork world, Freemantle: Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ).
McGrath-Champ, S., Zou, M., Taylor, L. (2013). Exploring new frontiers in an internationalised classroom: Team-based learning and reflective journals as innovative learning strategies. In Janette Ryan (Eds.), Cross-Cultural Teaching and Learning for Home and International Students: Internationalisation of Pedagogy and Curriculum in Higher Education, (pp. 27-40). Oxon: Routledge. [More Information]
McGrath-Champ, S., Jefferson, T. (2013). Gender and pay equity in a global knowledge organisation. The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 24(1), 97-123. [More Information]
Rainnie, A., Herod, A., McGrath-Champ, S. (2013). Global production networks, labour and small firms. Capital and Class, 37(2), 177-195. [More Information]
Fee, A., McGrath-Champ, S., Liu, H. (2013). Human resources and expatriate evacuation: a conceptual model. Journal of Global Mobility: the home of expatriate management research, 1(3), 246-263. [More Information]
Shin, J., McGrath-Champ, S. (2013). Informal Skill Formation and the Division of Labour: The Case of Korean Tiling Workers in Sydney. Journal of Industrial Relations, 55(1), 80-99. [More Information]
Fee, A., McGrath-Champ, S. (2013). Managing Expatriate Evacuations in Times of Crisis: A Cross-Industry Comparison. 73rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management 2013, Orlando, United States: Academy of Management. [More Information]
Herod, A., Pickren, G., Rainnie, A., McGrath-Champ, S. (2013). Waste, commodity fetishism and the ongoingness of economic life. Area, 45(3), 376-382. [More Information]

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2012

Ellem, B., McGrath-Champ, S. (2012). Labor geography and labor history: insights and outcomes from a decade of cross-disciplinary dialogue. Labor History, 53(3), 355-372. [More Information]
Taylor, L., McGrath-Champ, S., Clarkeburn, H. (2012). Supporting student self-study: The educational design of podcasts in a collaborative learning context. Active Learning in Higher Education, 13(1), 77-90. [More Information]

2011

Fee, A., McGrath-Champ, S., Yang, X. (2011). Expatriate performance management and firm internationalization: Australian multinationals in China. Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, 49(3), 365-384. [More Information]
McGrath-Champ, S., Rosewarne, S., Rittau, Y. (2011). From one skill shortage to the next: The Australian construction industry and geographies of a global labour market. Journal of Industrial Relations, 53(4), 467-485. [More Information]
McGrath-Champ, S., Zou, M., Taylor, L. (2011). Managing diversity: Workplace and classroom connections. 25th Conference of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand AIRAANZ 2011, New Zealand: Auckland University of Technology.
Rainnie, A., Herod, A., McGrath-Champ, S. (2011). Review and positions: global production networks and labour. Competition and Change, 15(2), 155-169. [More Information]
Herod, A., Rainnie, A., McGrath-Champ, S. (2011). Working Space: Why Incorporating the Geographical Is Central to Theorizing Work and Employment Practices. In Marian Baird, Rae Cooper, Bradon Ellem and Russell D Lansbury (Eds.), Industrial Relations - SAGE Library in Business and Management, (pp. 302-317). London, United Kingdom: Sage Publications.

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2010

McGrath-Champ, S., Zou, M., Taylor, L. (2010). Deploying Student Diversity as a Microcosm of the World: Teaching Work and Employment Issues in an Internationalised Classroom. Internationalising Learning and Teaching in Academic Settings: Engagement, Collaboration and Sustainability, Australia: Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney.
McGrath-Champ, S., Rosewarne, S., Rittau, Y. (2010). Education, Skill and Unions in the Australian Construction Industry. Labour and Industry, 21(1), 438-462.
Herod, A., McGrath-Champ, S., Rainnie, A. (2010). Foundations. In S McGrath-Champ, A Herod, A Rainnie (Eds.), Handbook of Employment and Society: Working Space, (pp. 1-16). Cheltenham United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing.
McGrath-Champ, S., Herod, A., Rainnie, A. (2010). Handbook of Employment and Society: Working Space. Cheltenham United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing. [More Information]
Rainnie, A., McGrath-Champ, S., Herod, A. (2010). Making Space for Geography in Labour Process Theory. In Paul Thompson, Chris Smith (Eds.), Working Life: Renewing Labour Process Analysis, (pp. 297-315). Houndsmill, Basingstoke United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
McGrath-Champ, S., Fee, A., Yang, X. (2010). Performance management of expatriates in China. In Julia Connell, Stephen Teo (Eds.), Strategic HRM: Contemporary Issues in the Asia Pacific Region, (pp. 284-306). Australia: Tilde University Press.
McGrath-Champ, S., Rainnie, A., Herod, A. (2010). Progressing work: How spatial approaches change our theories of work and labour. 24th Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand AIRAANZ Conference 2010, Australia: Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ).
Rainnie, A., Herod, A., McGrath-Champ, S. (2010). Workers in Space. In S McGrath-Champ, A Herod, A Rainnie (Eds.), Handbook of Employment and Society: Working Space, (pp. 249-272). Cheltenham United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Rainnie, A., McGrath-Champ, S., Herod, A. (2010). Working Spaces. In S McGrath-Champ, A Herod, A Rainnie (Eds.), Handbook of Employment and Society: Working Space, (pp. 61-83). Cheltenham United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing.

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2009

McGrath-Champ, S., Rosewarne, S. (2009). Organizational change in Australian building and construction: Rethinking a unilinear 'leaning' discourse. Construction Management and Economics, 27(11), 1111-1128. [More Information]
McGrath-Champ, S., Rosewarne, S. (2009). The Australian Construction Industry: Skills Challenges and the Global Labour Market. 23rd Conference of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand AIRAANZ 2009, Australia: Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ).

2008

Kamvounias, P., McGrath-Champ, S., Yip, J. (2008). "Gifts" in mentoring: mentees' reflections on an academic development program. International Journal for Academic Development, 13(1), 17-25.
Yang, X., McGrath-Champ, S., Fee, A. (2008). Expatriate Performance Management and Firm Internationalisation: Evidence from China and Hong Kong. Australia and New Zealand Chapter of the Academy of International Business Symposium on Research and Teaching in International Business 2008, Australia: Academy of International Business - Australia and New Zealand Chapter.
Kamvounias, P., McGrath-Champ, S., Yip, J. (2008). Mentoring in academic settings: The views of mentees. Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference AARE 2007, Australia: Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE).
McGrath-Champ, S. (2008). Organizational Change and Innovation in the Australian Building and Construction Industry. Review of Management Innovation and Creativity (RMIC), 1(2), 41-51.
Kamvounias, P., McGrath-Champ, S., Yip, J. (2008). Reflections on a Formal Mentoring Program. 6th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education 2008, United States: Hawaii International Conference on Education.

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2007

Rainnie, A., Herod, A., McGrath-Champ, S. (2007). Spatialising industrial relations. Industrial Relations Journal, 38(2), 102-118.
Freeman, M., McGrath-Champ, S. (2007). To Adopt or Not Adopt Team-based Learning: A Diffusion of Innovations Analysis. Team Based Learning Conference TBL 2007, Canada: Creative Commons.
Herod, A., Rainnie, A., McGrath-Champ, S. (2007). Working space: why incorporating the geographical is central to theorizing work and employment practices. Work, Employment and Society, 21(2), 247-264. [More Information]

2006

McGrath-Champ, S., Rosewarne, S., Toner, P. (2006). 'Skills infrastructure and structural transformation of the building and construction industry'. Social Actors, Work Organization and New Technologies in the 21st Century. IIRA 14th World Congress, N/A: International Industrial Relations Association (IIRA).
McGrath-Champ, S. (2006). A spatial perspective on international work and management: Illustrations from China. In Mark Hearn and Grant Michelson (Eds.), Rethinking Work, Time, Space and Discourse, (pp. 165-186). Port Melbourne, Australia: Cambridge University Press.
McGrath-Champ, S. (2006). Industrial relations and space: new global frontiers. International Industrial Relations Association 14th World Congress. International Industrial Relations Association European Chapter.
Shik Shin, J., McGrath-Champ, S., Rosewarne, S. (2006). Migration and Migrants in the Australian Construction Industry: Issues Facing Tiling Workers in the Sydney Metropolitan Area. 4th Asia-Pacific Building Unions Seminar, N/A.
Freeman, M., McGrath-Champ, S., Clark, S., Taylor, L. (2006). The case for assessable in-class team-based learning. UniServe Science Symposium 2006, The University of Sydney: Uniserve Science.
Rosewarne, S., Shin, J., McGrath-Champ, S., Toner, P. (2006). The globalisation of the construction work force: the impact on the Australian building and construction industry. 4th Asia-Pacific Building Unions Seminar, N/A.
McGrath-Champ, S., Yang, X. (2006). The performance management-training interface in Australian firms in China. In Felicia M.Fai and Eleanor J. Morgan (Eds.), Managerial Issues in International Business, (pp. 141-161). Basingstoke, Hampshire & New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

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2005

McGrath-Champ, S. (2005). Enterprise Bargaining and Regional Prospects: The Effects of Rescaling Wage Regulation in Australia. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 26(3), 413-442. [More Information]
McGrath-Champ, S. (2005). Globalization's Challenge to Labour: Rescaling Work and Employment. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 26(3), 323-334. [More Information]
McGrath-Champ, S., Searle, G. (2005). Regional policies over the last decade: Imprinting working nation. Journal of Economic and Social Policy, 9(2), 89-109.
McGrath-Champ, S., Yang, X., Kang, R. (2005). The effects of performance -management and cross-cultural training on outcomes of international: assignments: Preliminary Australia-China findings'. 19th Conference of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand AIRAANZ 2005, Australia: Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ).
McGrath-Champ, S., Baird, M. (2005). The mercurial nature of Australian HRM under enterprise bargaining. Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, 43(1), 155-173.
McGrath-Champ, S. (2005). The New Regionalism and Employment Relations in Australia. In Al Rainnie, Mardelene Grobbelaar (Eds.), New Regionalism in Australia, (pp. 199-216). United Kingdom: Ashgate.

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2004

McGrath-Champ, S. (2004). Enterprise Bargaining and Australia's New Regional Economies: The Effects of Rescaling Wage Regulation. 18th AIRAANZ Conference: New Economies, New Industrial Relations. Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ).
Rosewarne, S., McGrath-Champ, S., Toner, P., Morgan, C. (2004). Labour Force Challenges in the Australian Building and Construction Industry: Skills Infrastructure and Migrant Workers. Labour Force Challenges in the Australian Building and Construction Industry: Skills Infrastructure and Migrant Workers, Sydney University.
McGrath-Champ, S., Yang, X., Kang, R. (2004). Performance Management And Cross-Cultural Training In Australian Firms In China. Australia and New Zealand International Business Academy Conference ANZIBA 2004, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia: University of Canberra.
Shin, J., McGrath-Champ, S., Rosewarne, S. (2004). The impact of Korean-speaking migrant workers on the skill formation and the labour market in the Australian construction industry. International Industrial Relations Association, Asian Regional Congress, Seoul, South Korea: International Industrial Relations Association.
McGrath-Champ, S. (2004). Wages And Enterprise Agreements: What Factors Influence Pay Outcomes. 12th Annual Conference of the International Employment Relations Association (IERA 2004) "Regionalism and Globalisation: The Challenge for Employment Relations", Rockhampton: International Employment Relations Association.

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2003

McGrath-Champ, S. (2003). Employment benefits in enterprise agreements: An overview. Australian Bulletin of Labour, 29(1), 46-61.
McGrath-Champ, S. (2003). Employment benefits in enterprise agreements: an overview of recent provisions. In Marian Baird, John Burgess (Eds.), Employee Entitlements in Australia: Proceedings of conference "Employee Entitlements in Australia" held at University of Sydney, (pp. 26-34). Newcastle, N.S.W: University of Newcastle, Employment Studies Centre.
McGrath-Champ, S., Baird, M. (2003). Enterprise bargaining, the network economy and the changing nature of human resource management: an Australian perspective. The International Industrial Relations Association World Congress, Germany.
McGrath-Champ, S., Baird, M. (2003). Human resource management in the era of enterprise bargaining. In John Burgess and Duncan Macdonald (Eds.), Developments in Enterprise Bargaining in Australia, (pp. 197-215). Victoria: Tertiary Press.

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2002

McGrath-Champ, S. (2002). Back to the Map? Enterprising agreements in rural, regional and urban Australia. Labour and Industry, 13(2), 118-145.
McGrath-Champ, S. (2002). Book Review: Regional Employment Relations at Work: The Illawarra Regional Workplace Industrial Relations Survey. International Journal of Employment Studies, 10(1), 158-161.
McGrath-Champ, S., Yang, X. (2002). Cross Cultural Training, Expatriate Quality of (Work?) Life and Venture Performance. Employment Relations Unit Annual Conference 2002.
McGrath-Champ, S., Yang, X. (2002). Expatriate management, venture performance and the "New Economy": Insights from exploratory Australia-China research. Fourth Conference on Multinational Business Economy.
McGrath-Champ, S., Ellem, B. (2002). Industrial Relations Meets Human Geography: Spatialising the Social Relations of Work. Labour and Industry, 13(2), 1-3.
McGrath-Champ, S. (2002). Regional Patterns of Wage Outcomes in Australian Enterprise Agreements. Tenth Annual Conference of the International Employment Relations Association, Australia: International Employment Relations Association.
McGrath-Champ, S. (2002). Space, Scale and Industrial Relations: Enterprise Agreements in Rural, Regional and Urban Australia. The 16th Conference of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand, New Zealand: University of Otago Printery.
McGrath-Champ, S., Baird, M. (2002). The Changing Role and Practice of Australian Human Resource Management in the Era of Enterprise Bargaining. Ten Years of Enterprise Bargaining Conference, Newcastle University: Ten Years of Enterprise Bargaining Conference.
McGrath-Champ, S. (2002). The New Regionalism, Regional Development Policy and Employment Relations in Australia. The 'New Regionalism' in Australia: A new model of work, organisation and regional governance?.
McGrath-Champ, S. (2002). What Place for Space? Issues and Analysis in Industrial Relations and Labour Geography. Third Joint Conference of the New Zealand Geographical Society and Institute of Australian Geographers, New Zealand: New Zealand Geographical Society.

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2001

McGrath-Champ, S., Yang, X., Chao, G. (2001). Effects of expatriate training on firm performance: A conceptual approach. Academy of International Business Conference 2001.
McGrath-Champ, S. (2001). Space, scale and employment relations: Enterprise agreements in rural, regional and urban Australia. 2001 Joint Symposium of the Economic Geography Study Group of the Institute of Australian Geographers and Work and Organisational Studies Discipline, Sydney: University of Sydney.
McGrath-Champ, S., Carter, S. (2001). The art of selling corporate culture : management and human resources in Australian construction companies operating in Malaysia. International Journal of Manpower, 22(4), 349-365.
McGrath-Champ, S. (2001). Towards a geographicallyâ€“informed industrial relations discipline. Future of Industrial Relations Symposium 2001.

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2000

Baird, M., McGrath-Champ, S. (2000). Industrial Relations Developments. Frenchs Forest, N.S.W: Longman.

Selected Grants

2013

Women and Work Research Network, Baird M, Chen M, Cooper R, Cutcher L, Foley M, Ford M, Hardy C, Hill E, McGrath-Champ S, Piper N, Probyn E, Riley J, Seymour R, Smith B, Vromen A, Williamson S, DVC Research/Research Network Scheme (SyReNS)

2003

Labour Force Cahllenges in the Building and Construction Industry: Skills Infrastructure and Migrant Workers, McGrath-Champ S, Toner P, Rosewarne S, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage Projects (LP)
Labour force challenges in the building and construction industry: skills infrastructure and migrant, Cheung K, McGrath-Champ S, Rosewarne S, COMET Training/Project Support

2002

Labour force challenges in the building and construction industry: skills infrastructure and migrant workers, McGrath-Champ S, Rosewarne S, Toner P, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage Projects (LP)

2001

Place, Scale and Employment Relations in Australia: Enterprise Agreements and Individual Contracts in the Coal and Finance Industries, McGrath-Champ S, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)
Place, Scale and Employment Relations in Australia: Enterprise Agreements and Individual Contracts in the Coal and Finance Industries, McGrath-Champ S, DVC Research/Bridging Support Grant

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