Lucy Taksa
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Formal Name: Lucy Taksa Personal Title: Associate Professor Position: Director of the Industrial Relations Research Centre at the University of New South Wales; Visiting Fellow LMSF Qualifications: BA (Hons) PhD UNSW Telephone: 0414345131 Email: l.taksa@unsw.edu.au |
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Associate Professor Lucy Taksa, PhD is a member of the School of Organisation and Management and the Director of the Industrial Relations Research Centre, Australian School of Business at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). She was Associate Dean (Education) in the Faculty of Commerce and Economics during 2006 and Head of the School of Industrial Relations and Organisational Behaviour from 2003, and of the School of Organisation and Management, 2004-2005. She was a non-judicial member of the Equal Opportunity Division and the Legal Services Division of the NSW Administrative Decisions Tribunal from 1996 and 2003 respectively and a member of the UNSW Equity Strategy Committee between 2004 and 2006. She has been Presiding Member of the UNSW Vice Chancellor's Childcare Assistance Fund for Women Researchers Assessment Committee since 2003. In 2007 she was appointed Chair of Board of State Records NSW. Lucy teaches Masters of Commerce courses: Organisational Behaviour and Managing Equity, Diversity and Disability.
Lucy’s research has investigated the cultural implications of scientific management, labour culture, social capital and citizenship, the gendered nature of technological change, memory and the impact of globalisation on the management of industrial heritage assets. She has been on the Editorial Boards of a number of journals, including: Organization Studies, the Journal of Transport History, International Review of Social History, Labour History, Work Employment and the Labour Market, Problems & Perspectives in Management. Her research currently focuses on the long term impact of migration on workplace culture, intercultural relations and investment in Equal Employment Opportunity and Diversity Management initiatives.
In 2007 Lucy is a Visiting Fellow of the Labour-Management Studies Foundation at Macquarie University.