Team

This project brings together academics with expertise in aged care, labour studies, industrial relations, social work and management from five universities.

Professor Sara Charlesworth

Professor Sara Charlesworth (Chief Investigator) is a socio-legal scholar with extensive experience both in the aged care sector and in conducting research at the national, industry and workplace levels. She co-led the Australian Government funded project, Quality Jobs Quality Care and has published widely in academic, policy and community forums.

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Professor Donna Baines

Professor Donna Baines (Chief Investigator) is a social work and labour studies academic with extensive experience in the not-for profit sector. She is the joint author of ‘Promising Practices in Long Term Care: Ideas worth sharing (2015), based on research emerging from the International Re-imagining Long Term Residential Care study.

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Associate Professor Debra King

Associate Professor Debra King, Chief Investigator, is an applied sociologist and pre-eminent aged care policy scholar in Australia. She was a principal researcher at the National Institute of Labour Studies (NILS) at Flinders University where she led two National Aged Care Workforce Census and Surveys. A much-valued member of the DWGC team, Debra has now retired from Flinders University.

Professor Ian Cunningham

Professor Ian Cunningham (Partner Investigator) is an employment relations and management scholar in social care in voluntary (not-for-profit) and private sector organisations. He has published extensively on the impact of austerity, the retendering of services and the individualisation of care in the UK and international contexts.

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Professor Tamara Daly

Professor Tamara Daly (Partner Investigator) holds a CIHR Research Chair in Gender, Work and Health focusing on the study of work and working conditions in long term care (LTC) for older persons. She is the Work Organization theme leader for the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada’s (SSRCC) study on promising practices in long term care.

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Wendy Taylor – Project Manager

Wendy Taylor (Project Manager/industry fellow) has worked in senior workforce planning, social policy and evaluation roles in both federal and state government as well as the not-for-profit sector. Her Master of Social Science by Research was on job quality under individualised funding models from the perspective of home support workers. As project manager Wendy has managed the regulatory mapping and case studies phases, ethics, the data collection and analysis, and is actively involved in communicating the research findings.