AIRAANZ Conference 2025

The Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ) is pleased to announce that the AIRAANZ 2025 Conference will be co-hosted by Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington and Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa Massey University and held in Wellington, New Zealand from Monday 3 to Wednesday 5 February 2025. The conference will be in-person.

The conference theme is ‘Navigating the Nexus: Politics, Profession, and Practice in Industrial Relations’. The world of work is increasingly dynamic and challenging. Employment relations academics have a critical role to play in understanding these challenges, informing and transforming debate. Employment relations scholarship has always been current and relevant, addressing real-world problems through empirical research. The importance of relevance and engagement with policymakers and practitioners is now more critical than ever. This conference theme allows us to explore key issues and impacts for contemporary employment relations research including, but not limited to, the following areas:

• Addressing inequalities in low-paid and insecure forms of work
• First People perspectives and Indigeneity in labour
• Political economy of employment regulation
• Challenges relating to gender, work and family
• Prospects for IR: academic and practitioner perspectives
• Deregulation and reregulation of labour markets
• Climate change, work and sustainability
• Migrant labour and politics
• Politics and economies of care work
• Political economy of health and safety
• Workplace and domestic violence
• Flexible work in a post-pandemic era
• AI, gig work and worker rights
• Future of ‘embodied work’
• Politics and practice of diversity, equity and inclusion

Key Dates & Events

We now invite you to submit paper abstracts – due by 11 October 2024

• Please include the name/s of the author/s, affiliated institutions and email addresses.
• The abstracts, explaining the aim and content of the presentation, should be no longer than 1000 words.
• Please be aware the abstract submission portal works best on Chrome or Firefox.

To submit your abstract to AIRAANZ 2025 CLICK HERE for the Submission Form  

Questions regarding the conference should be sent to: AIRAANZ@con-sol.com or Noelle Donnelly at noelle.donnelly@vuw.ac.nz

We look forward to welcoming you to the AIRAANZ 2025 Conference!

Conference accommodation can be booked through the following link AIRAANZ Conference Accommodation

For additional accommodation queries, please contact Caitlin at caitlin@con-sol.com

Conference organising committee: Noelle Donnelly, Jim Arrowsmith, Christian Yao, Stephen Blumenfeld, Daniel Duan, Zoe Port, Dan Langerud, Geoff Plimmer.

Registration

To receive the Member-discount, if you are an EXISTING member, please LOGIN BEFORE REGISTERING for the conference. Once logged in, you can then register for the conference with the discount. 

Please be aware you can also renew your AIRAANZ membership as part of the conference registration process.

You can also become a NEW member and receive the discount. First, create a new membership account, then make sure to login, and you will now be able to register for the conference with the membership discount.

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