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Elsa Underhill

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

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).
Recognised expert in OHS and labour hire employment, including expert opinions in court cases
Widely cited in Reports of State and National government enquiries involving OHS, and changing labour markets
Organised the Industrial Relations Society of Victoria/Australian Industrial Relations Commission Advocacy Training Programs (until 2008)
Organised the International Symposium on Regulating Precarious Employment in 2011, sponsored by Safe Work Australia
Recipient of two Deakin University Teaching Awards for residential program teaching

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

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

13th February 2012