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 registration | 06 December 2024 |
For more details on the conference, please visit the AIRAANZ conference website: https://www.airaanz.org/