Rate My Professor Suzanne Jamieson

Suzanne Jamieson is an Associate Professor in the Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies in the University of Sydney Business School. She joined the Department of Industrial Relations in 1990 as a labour lawyer and Lecturer in Industrial Law, advancing to Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor. Prior to her academic career, Jamieson worked as a senior public servant and full-time trade union official. She holds a BA and LLB from the University of New South Wales, a Graduate Diploma in Public Sector Management from the University of Technology Sydney, an LLM, and a doctorate in women and occupational health and safety from the University of Sydney. Jamieson played a pivotal role in developing the Master of Law and Labour Relations degree in cooperation with colleagues, and for over a decade until her retirement in 2010, she handled most of the teaching in labour law and human rights within the department and discipline.

Her research focuses on wage equity, pay equity for women in New South Wales and federal jurisdictions, occupational health and safety, and gender discrimination issues in the workplace. Jamieson served as Staff Elected Fellow on the University of Sydney Senate from 1999 to 2005, was a member of the New South Wales Anti-Discrimination Board for ten years including as a part-time member in 2003-2004, and sat on the Operations Review Committee of the Independent Commission Against Corruption until 2006. She advocated for pay equity through her involvement with the National Pay Equity Coalition. Key publications include 'OHS Prosecutions: Do They Deter Other Companies from Offending?' (2010, co-authored with Belinda Reeve and Toni Schofield), 'New Employment Actors: Filling the Void in Australian Industrial Relations' (2006, co-edited with John Burgess), 'Trade Unions in 1991' (1992), 'Review of Industrial Relations—1991' (1992, co-authored with Mark Westcott), and 'Human Resource Management in the Australian Public Service: Rhetoric and Reality' (1991). Post-retirement, she contributed as a co-investigator on an Australian Research Council Discovery grant assessing the deterrent effects of occupational health and safety prosecutions in New South Wales and Victoria. Recognized as a model of socially engaged scholarship, her work has informed public policy and extended occupational curricula.