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by Admin | Apr 23, 2026 | Uncategorized
UTS researchers in the Climate, Society and Environment Research Centre (C-SERC) and collaborating with Sweltering Cities to run a symposium on heat and disability. All welcome! Details below, and RSVP on Humantix. Dr Elizabeth Humphrys, the Too Hot to Work...
by Admin | Oct 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
Elizabeth Humphrys has published a new book chapter in Jesse Adams Stein and Chantel Carr’s edited volume Working through Planetary Breakdown: Labour, Skill and the Changing Climate. Her chapter is on the experiences of blue-collar United Workers Union members —...
by Admin | Apr 14, 2025 | Uncategorized
Dr Elizabeth Humphrys has a chapter in the new Elgar Companion to Decent Work and the Sustainable Development Goals. The compendium is a mammoth effort — it has 50 or so chapters from world leading scholars on key questions in the world of work, and critiques on the...
by Admin | Jan 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
In Dr Elizabeth Humphrys’ recent article in the Journal of Industrial Relations, she examines the growing impacts of climate change on work health and safety (WHS) and argues that Australia is poorly prepared to protect workers from these risks. This is despite...
by Admin | Nov 19, 2024 | Uncategorized
‘Stop work’ temperature triggers have emerged as a prominent trade union demand to alleviate the risks of higher temperatures on workers. In a new report prepared for the Climate, Society and Environment Research Centre (CSERC) UTS and the Too Hot To Work project,...
by Admin | Jul 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
On 12 July Too Hot for Work and C-SERC convened a symposium for political economists, geographers and aligned social scientists investigating the impacts of climate change on workers. Researchers are examining a broad range of often intersecting issues — labour...