Navigating the Nexus: Politics, Profession, and Practice in Industrial Relations
3-5 February 2025, Wellington, New Zealand

The Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ) is pleased to announce that the AIRAANZ 2025 Conference will be co-hosted by Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington and Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa Massey University and held in Wellington, New Zealand from Monday 3 to Wednesday 5 February 2025. The conference will be in-person.
The conference theme is ‘Navigating the Nexus: Politics, Profession, and Practice in Industrial Relations’. We encourage submissions relating to topics including, but not limited to, the following areas:

  • Addressing inequalities in low-paid and insecure forms of work
  • First People perspectives and Indigeneity in labour
  • Political economy of employment regulation
  • Challenges relating to gender, work and family
  • Prospects for IR: academic and practitioner perspectives
  • Deregulation and reregulation of labour markets
  • Climate change, work and sustainability
  • Migrant labour and politics
  • Politics and economies of care work
  • Political economy of health and safety
  • Workplace and domestic violence
  • Flexible work in a post-pandemic era
  • AI, gig work and worker rights
  • Future of ‘embodied work’
  • Politics and practice of diversity, equity and inclusion

We invite you to submit your abstracts and papers to Abstract and Paper Submission

Key dates

Paper Abstract due *EXTENDED*11 October 2024
HDR Students abstract due *EXTENDED*11 October 2024
Early bird registration06 December 2024

For more details on the conference, please visit the AIRAANZ conference website: https://www.airaanz.org/conference/airaanz-conference-2025