Professor Susan Ainsworth

Professor, Organisational Studies, Management and Marketing, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Melbourne

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Business & Economics

The business leaders ‘hiding’ chronic illness

After COVID, the impact of long-term health conditions is being felt across the workforce. But managers are keeping their illnesses a secret over career concerns

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Politics & Society

How Australia’s internal migrants could benefit our regions

For regional Australia to benefit from the latest wave of ‘tree and sea changers’, we need to understand the motivations and skills they’re bringing with them

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Politics & Society

Get with the (political) programming

If real-life politics is getting you down, these fictional political TV power players might inspire your interest instead

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Business & Economics

What Australia’s marriage equality vote says about corporate activism

In the build-up to Australia’s same-sex marriage vote, some corporations became activists for the cause, but most have been quiet since

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Business & Economics

Teaching the next generation of #MeToo

As gender equality movements like #MeToo and #TimesUp gain traction - is the business world taking sexual harassment seriously enough? And how prepared should our future employees be to tackle it?