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Work.Work.Work.

Work.Work.Work.

Written by: Work Futures Hallmark Research Initiative
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Hosted by Dr Peter Ghin, Work.Work.Work. expertly guides you through people's lived experience of the modern workplace. We explore the way work is changing, and more importantly, how people are experiencing those changes. And we're not just talking about major technological shifts, but the nitty gritty, day to day stuff that can make our work a labor of love, and sometimes not so much with the love. 

Our research collective represents disciplines as diverse as law, computer sciences, human geography, sociology, indigenous leadership and organization studies. We’re an eclectic bunch, and we hope that our diversity of thinking will bring you a different take on not only what the future of work looks like, but what it feels like to be a worker in an employment landscape that has never felt more filled with possibilities and so terrifyingly dystopian at the same time. 

In our first season, we'll be looking at the legacy effects of the pandemic on the way we work. We’ll be talking to people about how the pandemic changed the way we dressed for work, what the post pandemic landscape looks like for young people, and how COVID-19 and specifically long-COVID has shone a spotlight on a previously overlooked category of workers, that is people living and working with long term health conditions. 

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Episodes
  • Bonus: Full interview with Catherine Hale

    Bonus: Full interview with Catherine Hale
    Jul 24 2023

    In this bonus edition of Work.Work.Work. we present our full interview with Catherine Hale, whose pioneering work has helped define a subset of chronic illness known as ‘energy limiting conditions’. In the interview we explore Catherine’s research in detail, unpicking the complexity of disability identity for people with chronic illness. We also explore the biases that prevent workplaces from becoming spaces of inclusivity, and the opportunity costs associated with not accessing this ‘invisible talent pool’ of workers. 

    Host: Dr Peter Ghin

    Guest: Catherine Hale - Head of Consulting, Astrid/Founder, Chronic Illness Inclusion

    Mentioned:

    2023: The state of the future of work 

    Astriid

    Energy impairment and disability inclusion

    How flexible hiring could improve business performance and living standards

    The business leaders hiding chronic illness 



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    34 mins
  • Energy limiting health conditions: The unspoken energy crisis plaguing workers

    Energy limiting health conditions: The unspoken energy crisis plaguing workers
    Jul 17 2023

    Are you exhausted? Well join the club! But imagine if that exhaustion wasn’t only a by-product of living in our modern times, but a physiological response to a multi-systemic illness that severely curtails your baseline energy levels. In today’s episode, we explore the world of chronic illness, particularly conditions like long-COVID, fibromyalgia, lupus, and ME/CFS, to better understand their impact on people’s capacity to work. 

    We discuss the inadequacy of terms like ‘fatigue’ or ‘exhaustion’ to describe the experience of working and living with what one of our guests has termed ‘energy limiting conditions’, and what we think about as the great unnamed energy crisis of our time. We also discuss how organisations can create inclusive workplaces that are welcoming for employees of varying capacities and abilities. 

    Host: Dr Peter Ghin

    Guests:

    Catherine Hale: Head of Consulting, Astrid/Founder, Chronic Illness Inclusion

    Dr Jo Ingold: Associate Professor, Management, Deakin University

    Ilena: Managing Director, start up

    Mentioned:

    2023: The state of the future of work 

    Astriid

    Energy impairment and disability inclusion

    How flexible hiring could improve business performance and living standards

    The business leaders hiding chronic illness 



    Subscribe to Work.Work.Work.

    Work Futures Hallmark Research Initiative

    If you would like to suggest ideas for future episodes or reach out to us, please email work-futures@unimelb.edu.au 

    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    35 mins
  • Bonus: Full interview with Dr Harriette Richards

    Bonus: Full interview with Dr Harriette Richards
    Jul 10 2023

    In this bonus edition of Work.Work.Work. we spend some one-on-one time with Dr Harriette Richards who was one of our featured guests on episode 2. In the interview we discuss a broad range of topics including the historical trends associated with work wear casualisation, the potential emancipatory effects of casualisation for professional women in the workforce, and we take a deeper dive into the gendered dynamics of fashion in the entrepreneurship space. 

    Host: Dr Peter Ghin

    Guest: Dr Harriette Richards: Lecturer Fashion Enterprise, RMIT; Host - Critical Studies Fashion Podcast

    Mentioned:

    The Beauty Salon Project

    Fashioning founders: Dress and gender in the entrepreneurial ecosystem

    Critical Fashion Studies Podcast

     

    Subscribe to Work.Work.Work.

    Work Futures Hallmark Research Initiative

    If you would like to suggest ideas for future episodes or reach out to us, please email work-futures@unimelb.edu.au 

    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    36 mins
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