News
Announcements, news and other shorter pieces about our research project.
CJRC & United Workers Union Research Project
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,...
Heat in the Streets: Final Report
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...
Construction workers in a climate precarious world
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...
Bushfire smoke hazard linked to climate change, Sydney and Canberra
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...
Heat stress and on-demand workers
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...