Associate Professor Diana Kelly

BA (Macq), MCom (Hons), PhD

Location: 19:2027 Phone: +61 02 4221 3612
Email: di@uow.edu.au

Biography

Diana Kelly has been at the University of Wollongong in academic roles since 1983. She has taught almost all areas of employment relations/industrial relations (ER/IR) as well as research methods, history of business ideas, HRM/ HRD/ OB and comparative economic systems. Diana's research areas have included most areas of ER/IR, particularly with reference to the steel industry, as well as history of ER/IR and management thought, OHS and workplace bullying, internationalisation of higher education, research methods in ER/IR, corporate social responsibility and human resource development (HRD) from a variety of perspectives. She has been a member of the editorial board of the journal of Industrial Relations, and was made an Honorary Life Member of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand in 1999. She has undertaken a number of university-wide roles especially in areas of teaching and learbing. Internationalisation and QA. She is currently Chair of Academic Senate.

Selected Publications

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A1 Authored Research Book

(1996) Employment Relationship in Australia, Harcourt Brace, Sydney, (second printing March 1997) (with Kennoy, Tom)

A4 Revision/New Edition

(1998) The Employment Relationship in Australia, Harcourt Brace, Sydney, with Tom Keenoy, (2nd edition - extensively revised by Di Kelly)
(1999) Researching Industrial Relations, Federation Press, Sydney

B Book chapter

(1997) Work and Leisure in Wollongong, 1828 1997 in J. Hagan and A Wells (eds.) A History of Wollongong, Wollongong University Press, Wollongong, pp.177-88
(1997) Steel in Australia: BHP Steel in N. S. Jennings (ed) Case Studies on the Iron and Steel workforce of the 21st Century, ILO, Geneva (with Elsa Underhill) pp.7-24
(1997) Resilient under stress: The Australian Steel Industry 1980s and 1990s", in M.Browne (ed) Case Studies in Strategic Management, Macmillan (with Elsa Underhill)
(1998) Making a Good Case: The Case Study in D. Kelly, (ed) Researching Industrial Relations, Federation Press, Sydney, pp.119-35
(1998) "A Preliminary History of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand" in R. Harbridge et al. (eds.) Current Research in Industrial Relations, Wellington, NZ., pp.1-13
(1998) Beatrice Webb and the National Standard for Manual Handling in The Webbs, Fabianism and Feminism. Fabianism and the Political Economy of Everyday Life, Aldershot, UK, Ashgate Publishing, pp 126-153 (with Chris Nyland)
(1999) Methods and Methodology: The Problem of Industrial Relations in D. Kelly, (ed) Researching Industrial Relations, Federation Press, Sydney, pp.1-12
(1999) Australian Steel: A Corporatist Transformation?, in J. Kitay and R. Lansbury (eds), Changing Employment Relations, OUP Melbourne pp.158-79 (with Elsa Underhill)

C1 - Refereed article in scholarly journal

2008: The 2007 Federal election in Australia: Framing Industrial Relations, Social Alternatives, vol 27, issue 2, pp.33-40
2007:'Workplace Bullying, Women and WorkChoices', Hecate, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 112-125.
2003 International Education: Quality assurance and standards in offshore teaching: exemplars and problems, Quality in Higher Education (UK), 10, 1, pp.51-8 (with Robert Castle)
2004 Essay review of Rose, Salamon, and Storey, Personnel Review 33, 6, pp.711-19
(2005) "Review of Workplace Bullying: Strengthening approaches to a complex phenomenon", Journal of Occupational Health and Safety Australia and New Zealand, 21, 6, December, pp.551-64
(2003) "A Shock to the System? The impact of HRM on academic IR in Australia in comparison with USA and UK 1980-95" Asia Pacific Journal of HRM, 4, 2, pp.149-71
(2003) "Marxist Manager Amidst the Progressives: Walter N. Polakov and the Taylor Society", Journal of Industrial History (UK), 6, 2, November, pp.61-75
(2004) "The transmission of ideas in employment relations: Dunlop and Oxford in the development of Australian industrial relations thought, 1960-1985", Advances in Industrial Relations and Labor Relations Research, Vol 13, pp.249-78

C3 Non-refereed articles in scholarly or professional journal

(1997) "International Migration and Labour Regulation", Asian Migrant, Vol X No. 3, July 1997, pp.76-85 (with Rob Castle and Chris Nyland)
(2001) "Competing Perceptions of Human Resource Development", Management Research News, (UK), 23, 2-4, pp.104-6

C4 Book reviews in scholarly or professional journal

(1996) Book Review of J. Belanger et al. "Workplace Industrial Relations and the Global Challenge", in Journal of Industrial Relations, 38, 1 March, pp.153-4
(1996) Book Review of P. Beilharz, "Transforming Labor: Labour Tradition and the Labour Decade in Australia", CUP, Melbourne, 1994 in Labour and Industry, 6, 2 July 1996
(2004) Book Review, E. Eklund, "Steel Town The Making and Breaking of Port Kembla", Journal of Industrial Relations, 46, 3, September, pp.370-73
(2005) Book review B. Kaufman et al., 2003, "Industrial Relations to Human Resources and Beyond: The Evolving Process of Employee Relations Management", M.E. Sharpe, NY, Labour and Industry 16, 2, pp.129-32

E1 Conference Publications full written paper refereed

(1996) "Marxist Amidst Progressives: Walter N. Polakov and The Taylor Society" in R. Fells and T. Todd (eds.) Current Research in Industrial Relations, AIRAANZ, Perth, pp.249-58
(1999) "Industrial Relations Images and Realities", in C. Leggett et al. Current Research in Industrial Relations, Vol 2., AIRAANZ Adelaide pp.57-68
(2000) "Human Resource Development: the Problem of Ambivalence", in Burgess, J. and Strachan, G. (eds) Research on Work, Employment and Industrial Relations 2000, Proceedings of the 14th AIRAANZ Conference, Newcastle, NSW, Australia, pp.133-40, Vol. 2.
(2001) "A survey of academic use of information technology", World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, pp.241-242 (with Helen Carter, Paul Else, Brian Ferry)
(2004) "Internationalisation: A Whole-of-Institution Approach", in R Carmichael (ed) Proceedings of the 3rd Australian Universities Quality Forum, AUQA, Melbourne, pp.99-102 (with R. Castle)
(2005) "A continuous association": AIRAANZ as a scholarly association in M. Baird, R Cooper and M Westcott (eds) Reworking Work AIRAANZ 05 Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand, University of Sydney, February, Volume 1, pp.275-82
(2005) "Seeking the Core of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)". Corporate Governance, Accountability & Corporate Social Responsibility Track, British Academy of Management Conference 13-15 September, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
(2005) "Perceptions of scientific management in Taylor Society debates". Management and Business History Track, British Academy of Management Conference 13-15 September, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
(2006) "Workplace Bullying" A Complex Issue Needing IR/ HRM Research? in Pocock, B. Provis, C, and Willis E. (eds) 21st Century Work: High Road or Low Road Proceedings of The 20th Conference of The Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia And New Zealand, pp.275-285
(2006) "Workplace Bullying, Women and WorkChoices" Our Work Our Lives:National Conference on Women and Industrial Relations, Brisbane 12-14 July 2006

E4 - Edited volume of conference proceedings

(2000) Crossing Borders: Employment, Work Markets and Social Justice across time place and discipline, AIRAANZ (Two Vols)

K5 Government Report

(2000) "Dual Perceptions of HRD: Issues for Policy", in Human Resource Development Outlook, PECC Development Task Force, pp.53-68

J25 Essay in Creative collection

(2000) "Social and Working Life" Catalogue Essay for Illawarra Visions: The Collections of the University of Wollongong, Wollongong University Press

PhD theses as principal or active co-supervisor (completed)

Current Supervision

The work experience of New Zealand (NZ) Maori in the Pilbara Mining Industry
The Influence of the Enlightenment on Land Economy in the 18th and 19th Century: Reflections on the Illawarra
Rupert Lockwood, 1908-1997: Journalist, Communist, Intellectual (submission January 2013)
Capitalism, Regulation Theory and The Law: The regulatory role of the law in the manufacturing and retail sectors from the 1970s to 2009
Ethics and corruption in Local Government: Exemplars and Flawed examples in Australia
Youth Employment in the Illawarra Region: A Study of Restructuring and Neo-liberalism 1985-2012
Pathan / Afghan street children in Pakistan - Policy and Programme Needs (Submission 2013)

Also interested in supervising in areas of workplace bullying, history of academic / professional disciplines, OHS in China, the steel industry, and history of employment / work.

Last reviewed: 27 September, 2012