CSES research in the news

Research from The Centre for Strategic Economic Studies (CSES) has had some excellent media coverage recently. Senior Research Fellow Joanne Pyke has had her research publicised in the LH Martin Institute Newsletter. Her PhD thesis explores why women continue to be a minority in senior academic roles in Australian universities despite more than 25 years of equal opportunity policies and legislation. Read more on Women, choice and promotion: why women are still a minority in the professoriate.

A report by Sally Weller, Peter Sheehan and John Tomaney prepared for Regional Development Victoria, has found the government has exaggerated the Latrobe Valley's ability to cope with the impact of the tax. Read media coverage on the the report in the Latrobe Valley Express and The Australian online.

In an interview published in The Age newspaper Professor Bruce Rasmussen said Victorian industries had some capacity to meet China’s enormous demand for clean technology, as well as food supply as immediate opportunities. Read 'New polish on the factory floor' in The Age Online.

Meet Our People - Donna Buttigieg

Donna Buttigieg

Donna Buttigieg (PhD) is a Professor at Victoria University. She joined Victoria University in August 2011. Prior to this, she was an Associate Professor at Monash University. For a number of years at Monash she was the Director of Research at the School of Business and Economics (Gippsland) and the Acting Director of the Family and Small Business Research Unit. She has also been a bureaucrat for Industrial Relations Victoria where she worked in a think tank that fed into policy, writing and managing research there. She has also worked at Oxford University as a Research Associate and the University of Melbourne in various capacities but concluding as a Research Fellow.
Donna Buttigieg undertook her undergraduate degrees at University of Queensland and the University of Melbourne. She completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne in 2003. She has undertaken a Graduate Certificate course in teaching at Monash University and a Diploma of Project Management at Chisholm.

She has a number of top tier journals such as the Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management Studies and the British Journal of Industrial Relations. She was an Associate Editor of Labour and Industry. Further, she has presented at a number of international and national conferences. Her current research interests include trade unions (strategy, commitment, participation, mobilization and turnover), OHS (bullying, safety climate), vulnerable workers (women, older workers, homeworkers, low paid) and strategic HRM (high involvement work systems, absenteeism, turnover and commitment). She is currently working on major projects examining union effectiveness and union citizenship behavior.
Donna loves to cook and entertain, read, travel and spend time with her 7 year old daughter