by Admin | May 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
Our new project with the United Workers Union (UWU) (2020-2021) investigates climatic heat stress, bushfire smoke, and the experience of members of the United Workers Union across Australia. The project will interview and survey workers across a range of industries,...
by Admin | Feb 26, 2020 | Uncategorized
From January to September 2019, UTS researchers completed a project looking at how outdoor workers in the City of Sydney area were experiencing high heat and heat stress. The project was funded through a City of Sydney Council Innovation Grant. The project focused on...
by Admin | Jan 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
Project members Elizabeth Humphrys and Freya Newman have published an academic article in the Critical Sociology journal, titled ‘Construction Workers in a Climate Precarious World’. The article focuses on climatic heat stress as a matter of occupational health...
by Admin | Dec 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
No one in Australia could have missed the dangerous pollution levels in Sydney and Canberra as a result of the recent bushfires. The Bureau of Meteorology, TIME Magazine and three former Fire Chiefs have all drawn the link between the bushfires, extreme weather events...
by Admin | Dec 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
In July 2019, the research team on the Heat in the Streets project, funded by a City of Sydney innovation grant, made a submission to the Victorian Government’s inquiry into the on-demand workforce. We reported some early analysis of the experience of food and...