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Work.Work.Work.

Work Futures Hallmark Research Initiativewww.work-futures.org

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. 

For more information visit https://www.work-futures.org/podcasts

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Episodes

Bonus: Full interview with Catherine Hale

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 ...

Jul 24, 202334 minSeason 1Ep. 3

Energy limiting health conditions: The unspoken energy crisis plaguing workers

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’ ...

Jul 17, 202335 minSeason 1Ep. 3

Bonus: Full interview with Dr Harriette Richards

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 ...

Jul 10, 202336 minSeason 1Ep. 2

Sweatpants. Check! Half-mullet. Check!: The casualisation of workwear in the age of remote working

Have you found yourself shunning tight-fitting clothing since the pandemic? Are you spending your entire working life in ‘athleisure’ wear? For many people, particularly remote workers, the pandemic was a time when the home became a place of online work, virtual education, and tech-mediated socialisation. And our wardrobes adapted to the lockdown era with comfort favouring formality. In this episode, we explore the complexities of fashion and grooming during the pandemic and into COVID normal. W...

Jul 03, 202334 minSeason 1Ep. 2

Bonus: Full interview with Jan Owen AM

Back in 2007 there was this thing called the Global Financial Crisis – you might have heard of it. It had a massive impact on the lives of many young people who were at the very beginning of their working lives, and we didn’t really understand the full scale of that impact until years later. In this episode, with my guest Jan Owen AM, we unpick what we learned from the GFC and discuss how it may foreground the effects of the pandemic on the careers of young people. But it’s not all doom and gloo...

Jun 19, 202333 min

Young people post-pandemic - Are the kids still alright?

How have young people fared during the pandemic and what are the lasting legacies of COVID-19 on their future career pathways? In this episode, we’ll hear from a number of experts who’ll discuss how the pandemic has disrupted the career development of young people. We’ll also explore the opportunities that have arisen from graduating into a new world of work, a world in which remote and hybrid working is an established norm and many of us are reassessing how much we want work to dominate our liv...

Jun 12, 202335 minSeason 1Ep. 1

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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. Work.Work.Work. is presented by a team of scholars from different research disciplines that make...

May 23, 20234 min
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