Publications
Links to academic publications related to our projects will be listed below when released. Please visit the news section for announcements, news and other shorter pieces about our research project.
Journal Articles
Humphrys E (2024) Inertia in Transformed Times: Work Health and Safety and Climate Change in Australia, Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol 66 No 5, pp XX. http://doi.org/10.1177/00221856241295497
Goodman J, Humphrys E, and Newman F (2023) Contrasting Heat Management Approaches among outdoor employees and contractors, Safety Science, Vol 165, pp 106185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2023.106185.
Humphrys E, Goodman J and Newman F (2022) ‘Zonked the Hell Out’: Climate Change and Heat Stress at Work, Economic and Labour Relations Review, Vol 3, Issue 2, pp 256-271. https://doi.org/10.1177/10353046221092414.
Newman F and Humphrys E (2020) Construction Workers in a Climate Precarious World, Critical Sociology, Vol 46, Issue 4-5, pp 557-572. https://doi.org/10.1177/0896920519880951.
Book chapters
Humphrys E (forthcoming, 2025) ‘Hot Under the PPE Collar: Occupational High Heat During the Covid-19 Pandemic’, in Jessie Adams-Stein and Chantel Carr (eds) Working Through Planetary Breakdown, Routledge.
Humphrys E (forthcoming, 2025) ‘Work Health and Safety, Adaptation and Climate Change’, in Marcel van der Linden, Christoph Scherrer and Madeleine Moore (eds) The Elgar Companion to Decent Work and the Sustainable Development Goals, Edward Elgar.
Reports
Humphrys E and Newman F (Oct 2021) High Heat and Climate Change at Work: Report for the United Workers Union, Climate Justice Research Centre, University of Technology Sydney.
Humphrys E, Newman F and Goodman J (Nov 2020) Heat Stress and Work in the Era of Climate Change: What We Know, and What We Need to Learn, Centre for Future Work (The Australia Institute) and Climate Justice Research Centre, University of Technology Sydney.
Bilora N, Goodman J, Humphrys E, Newman F, Pakdel P, da Rimini F and Thomas L (Nov 2019) Final Report to the City of Sydney Council: Heat in the Streets: Mapping the Lived Experience of Heat Stress of Climate-exposed Workers Towards Developing a Thriving and Resilient City, Climate Justice Research Centre, University of Technology, Sydney.
Goodman J, Humphrys E, Newman F, da Rimini F, Thomas L, Biloria N and Pakdel P (July 2019), Submission to the Inquiry into the Victorian On-Demand Workforce, Heat Stress and On-Demand Work: The Experience of Food Delivery and Courier Cyclists, Climate Justice Research Centre, University of Technology, Sydney.
Selected Conference Papers and Presentations
Humphrys E (2023) ‘Hot under the PPE Collar: occupational high heat during the COVID-19 pandemic’, All Hands on Deck Symposium, 19-21 July.
Humphrys E (2023) Climate Change: Work health and safety, green jobs, and just transitions, International Sociological Association Conference, Melbourne, 25 June–1 July.
Humphrys E (2022) Climate Change and Legal Need, International Access to Justice Forum, Victoria Law Foundation, Online/Melbourne, 1 April.
Humphrys E (2022) Organising for Climate Security, United Workers Union National Convention, Online/Melbourne, 18-29 July.
Humphrys E (2021) Climate Impacts on Workers, ACTU Union-Climate Dialogue, Online/Melbourne, 18 November.
da Rimini F, Goodman J, Humphrys E and Thomas L (2018) Towards a ‘Worker/Citizen Science’ Model: A Qualitative Investigation of Workplace Heat Stress and Climate Change, Australian Citizen Science Conference, University of South Australia, Adelaide, 7–9 February.
Ghosh D, Goodman J and Humphrys E (2017) Addressing Heat Disease: Trade Unions and Climate Heat in the Workplace, 29th Annual Scientific Conference of the International Society of Environmental Epidemiology, University of Sydney, 24-28 September.