Elsa Underhill

Elsa Underhill

Program Director, Master of Personal Injury Management
Senior Lecturer

BCom MCom Melb, PhD UNSW, CPA

Campus: Melbourne Burwood Campus
Phone:+61 3 924 45089
Email: elsa.underhill@deakin.edu.au

Link to Research Output

  • 2011 grant SafeWork Australia A$3,000
  • 2010 grant Department of Justice & Attorney General, Queensland Government A$45,630
  • 2010 grant CSaRO, FOBL (with A.Noblet) A$12,410
  • 2009 Faculty Exemplar of Teaching Excellence Award, for Unfair Dismissal Workshop conducted in MPR722.
  • 2005 Vice Chancellor's award for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching and Learning (team award for residential teaching).
  • 1989 - 2003, Victoria University of Technology
  • 1983 - 1989, Monash University
  • 1980 - 1983, Egon Zehnder International SA

Teaching Interests

  • Human Resource Management
  • Scheme Policy & Design
  • Scheme Assessment and Economics
  • Claims Management Strategies

Research Interests

  • Occupational health and safety and temporary agency workers
  • Labour market change
  • Human Resource Management
  • Industrial Relations Policy and Strategies
  • Strategies for improving the safe placement of agency workers
  • Interrelationships between human resource management policies and practices and OHS outcomes

Professional Affiliations

  • Association Of Industrial Relations Academics Of Australia & New Zealand (Former President)
  • Industrial Relations Society of Victoria (Former Vice-President, Advocacy & Dispute Resolution)
  • International Industrial Relations Association
  • Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants
  • Associate, Business Outsourcing and Restructuring Regulatory Research Network

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31st January 2012