Academic Level D
College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
I am an Associate Professor with Full Academic Status in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences; an Affiliate of the Flinders Factory of the Future at Tonsley and of the Jeff Bleich Centre for Democracy and Disruptive Technologies at the College of Business, Government and Law; and an Associate Researcher at the South Australian Centre for Economic Studies at the University of Adelaide. From June 2020 to February 2025, I was based at the Australian Industrial Transformation Institute (AITI), Tonsley Innovation District, researching and publishing on the Future of Work in the Digital Age.
My current projects include:
The Lived Experiences of Harm Faced by Women in the Gig Economy in South Australia (with Marinella Marmo (Chief Investigator); Elvio Anthony Sinopoli, Sahana Sarkar, Nada Ibrahim)
Enhancing innovation and productivity in advanced manufacturing Small and Medium Sized Enterprises through Artificial Intelligence (with Bruno Pereira (Chief Investigator), Adela McMurray, Tim van Erp, Ryan Jang, Angie Shafei (all Flinders University), Arlindo Galvão, Anderson Soares (both Federal University of Goiás, Brazil), Josivania Farias, Abner Santos, Eluiza Watanabe (all University of Brasília, Brazil))
Additive Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre- https://www.amcrc.com.au/
Current research interests focus on aspects of the future of work, including the ethical use of artificial intelligence in workplaces, and the social impacts of automation and new technologies.
Advisory board membership: Journal of Youth Studies.