Jobs, green jobs and work
Facilitator
Professor Barbara Pocock, Director of the Centre for Work + Life. Author of ‘Work/Life Collision’, ‘Living low paid: the dark side of prosperous Australia’ and ‘The Labour Market Ate My Babies: Work, Children and a Sustainable Future’. Involved in research on work and how it intersects with home life and commitments.
Presenters
Sue Lewis. Sue joined the National Centre for Sustainability (NCS) at Swinburne in 2008 to research, develop and fund education for sustainability projects as well as industry and government partnerships for skilling the green collar workforce. She has been focusing on research and policy projects in green skills and green jobs to keep abreast of the wave of government and industry interest in green skills for all workers.
Dean Mighell has been State Secretary of the Electrical Trades Union (Victorian Branch) since 1995 and is also National Vice President of the CEPU Electrical Division and on the Victorian Trades Hall Executive. He started out as an apprentice electrician in 1979 and became the youngest ever full-time organiser with the ETU in 1988. He is a member of the ACTU Environment Committee and the Victorian Building Industry Consultative Council.
Lin Hatfield Dodds is the National Director of UnitingCare Australia and former President of the Australian Council of Social Service. She has worked as a psychologist in government and community settings including on drug rehabilitation and with young people at risk, taking a particular interest in trauma and abuse. She has also advised federal and state governments on health, health ethics and community services.
Workshop outline
What is a green job?
How will environment change affect workers and their jobs?
As well as the ways they put together their work, home and community relationships?
