Rate My Professor Susan McGrath-Champ

Susan McGrath-Champ is Honorary Professor of Work and Employment Relations in the Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney Business School. She earned a BA (Hons) from the University of Western Australia, an MA from the University of British Columbia, and a PhD from Macquarie University. Her career at the University of Sydney began in 1995 as a lecturer and progressed to her current professorial role. McGrath-Champ teaches employment and human resources management across undergraduate, postgraduate, and research programs. She founded the multi-disciplinary, multi-institution Work in Schools Research Group and leads research on teachers' work and workload, including a landmark 2018 national survey commissioned by the NSW Teachers Federation that examined administrative demands and intensification of teachers' work.

Her research focuses on the geographical dimensions of employment relations, labour geography, global production networks and labour, work organization in education and construction sectors, and early childhood educators' workloads. Notable projects include an international STINT collaboration on school autonomy and devolution's impacts, as well as studies on global destruction networks and platform capitalism in Industry 4.0. Key publications encompass the edited 'Handbook of Employment and Society: Working Space' (2010), 'Review and positions: Global production networks and labour' (2011, cited 276 times), 'Working space: why incorporating the geographical is central to theorizing work and employment practices' (2007, cited 203 times), 'Intensification of teachers’ work under devolution: A ‘tsunami’ of paperwork' (2019, cited 156 times), and 'Industry 4.0 and the Future of Work: Global Production Networks, Global Disassembly Networks, and the Circular Economy' (2024). She has provided expert witness testimony to the Commonwealth Government’s parliamentary inquiry into the Status of the Teaching Profession (2018) and the Gallop Inquiry (2020). McGrath-Champ serves on the Advisory Board of Labour and Industry and the Editorial Advisory Committee of the Economic and Labour Relations Review. She is a Fellow of the Australian Human Resources Institute (FAHRI) and a professional Member of the Institute of Australian Geographers (MIAG).