Dr Robin Price
This person does not currently hold a position at QUT.
Biography
Background Robin has spent most of her working life in the retail industry, in management and training roles, whilst studying part-time. While undertaking her PhD she lectured and tutored in the Department of Industrial Relations at Griffith University, and joined QUT as a member of the academic staff in 2004. Research Interest- Young people's experiences of work
- Employability
- Retail industry employment
- Employment relations
- Employment regulation
Robin is interested in all aspects of employment relations. Robin's research is primarily on labour use strategies and the interplay with the regulatory framework. She is currently researching comparative trade union strategies and young people's experience and knowledge of work.
Personal details
Keywords
Industrial / Employment Relations, Human resource management, Service sector employment, especially retail, Trade union strategy, Young people and employment, Public service employment
Discipline
Business and Management, Policy and Administration
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (Griffith University)
- GDipAdVocEd (Griffith University)
- Graduate Certificate - Management (Queensland University of Technology)
- BCom(Hons)(IR) (Griffith University)
- BArts (University of Queensland)
- BCom(HRM&IR) (Griffith University)
Professional memberships and associations
Association of Industrial Relations Academics, Australia and New Zealand
British Universities Industrial Relations Association
Teaching
- Contemporary employment relations
- Government/business relations
- Human resource management
- Negotiation
- Learning and Development
Robin is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She primarily teaches employment relations units at postgraduate and undergraduate level, but also teaches HRM units.
Selected publications
- Price R, (2016) Controlling routine front line service workers: an Australian retail supermarket case, Work, Employment and Society, 30 (6), pp. 915-931.
- Colley L, Price R, (2015) Future public service capacity: Employment of young people into Australian public services during the GFC, Australian Journal of Public Administration, 74 (3), pp. 324-335.
- Price R, Bailey J, Pyman A, (2014) Varieties of collaboration: the case of an Australian retail union, International Journal of Human Resource Management, 25 (6), pp. 748-761.
- McDonald P, Price R, Bailey J, (2013) Knowledge is not power, but it's a start: What young people know about their rights and obligations in employment, Youth Studies Australia, 32 (2), pp. 49-58.
- Price R, McDonald P, Bailey J, Pini B, (2011) Young People and Work, Ashgate.
- Price R, (2011) Technological change, work re-organisation and retail workers' skills in production-oriented supermarket departments. In O Bozkurt & I Grugilis, Retail Work, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 88-106.
- Price R, Becker K, Clark L, Collins S, (2011) Embedding information literacy in a first-year business undergraduate course, Studies in Higher Education, 36 (6), pp. 705-718.
- Price R, Bailey J, McDonald P, Pini B, (2011) Employers and child workers: an institutional approach, Industrial Relations Journal, 42 (3), pp. 220-235.
- Bailey J, Price R, Esders L, McDonald P, (2010) Daggy shirts, daggy slogans? Marketing unions to young people, The Journal of Industrial Relations, 52 (1), pp. 43-60.
- Pini B, Price R, McDonald P, (2010) Teachers and the emotional dimensions of class in resource-affected rural Australia, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 31 (1), pp. 17-30.
QUT ePrints
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Awards
- Type
- Recipient of a Nationally Competitive Research Fellowship
- Reference year
- 2008
- Details
- LP0774931, APDI, 2007 -2009"Social citizenship and employment for secondary school students"
Supervision
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
Completed supervisions (Masters by Research)
- Enforceable Undertakings: Perceptions of Organisational Justice (2015)
- Corporate Social Responsibility in Japanese Firms in Transport Sector (2013)
- An investigation of culture and creativity on negotiation (2012)
- Conflict and Communication Among Engineers (2012)
- Defending the Patch: A labour geography analysis of unions' construction of and responses to the problem of declining union membership amongst youth (2011)