Sara Charlesworth

Biography

"Sara Charlesworth is a Professor and Deputy Head of School, Research & Innovation in the School of Management. She is an executive member of the Centre for People, Organisation & Work in the College of Business. Sara has published and presented widely in a wide range of academic, policy and community fora and has been involved in a number of key gender equality policy reviews and debates. Sara was a member of the Advisory Committee to the Review of Equal Opportunity Act 1995 (Vic) in 2007/08, a panel member on the 2012 ACTU Independent Inquiry into Insecure Work, and an advisor to the Australian Human Rights Commission on their 2012 National Sexual Harassment Prevalence Survey and their 2014 Pregnancy and Return to Work National Review. In 2017 Sara was appointed to the Equal Workplaces Advisory Council, a founding reform of the Victorian government’s Gender Equality Strategy. She is currently a member of the Victoria Police VEOHRC Review Academic Governance Board, on the Steering Group of the Migrant Workers Rights Campaign and co-convenor of the Work+Family Policy Roundtable. Sara is a Fellow of the Future Social Services Institute. She is on the editorial board of the Journal of Industrial Relations and is also an Adjunct Professor in the School of Management, University of South Australia. "

Research Interest

Employment regulation