PAPER PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES
Ellie Bassingthwaighte is currently a Senior Legal Writer for Practical Guidance (Employment), with LexisNexis. Prior to her current role, she has worked in private practice as an employment/industrial relations lawyer, served as an Associate at the Fair Work Commission, and contributed to State and Federal parliamentary committees on labour law reform, including the Queensland enquiry into the potential criminalisation of wage theft. She has a long-standing commitment to access to justice, and has volunteered with multiple community legal centres. Recognised in Doyle’s Guide for Employment Law in Queensland, Ellie brings both technical skill and a strong commitment to social justice to her work.
Alysia Blackham is a Professor at Melbourne Law School, the University of Melbourne, Australia. She is an internationally renowned expert on age discrimination law and the consequences of ageing for workplaces in an era of rapid technological change. Her research focuses on the intersection of labour law, equality law and public law, using empirical evidence to cast new light on legal problems. Alysia’s current research examines how AI and new technologies might exacerbate or ameliorate discrimination at work, and the role law and regulation can and should play in managing these risks.
Phoebe Blank is a Senior Employment Lawyer in the People Legal team at Woolworths Group. She advises on employment, industrial relations and workforce compliance matters across one of Australia's largest private employers. Phoebe has extensive practical experience in the interpretation and application of long service leave legislation across all Australian jurisdictions and has led significant compliance and remediation projects involving long service leave entitlements.
She is commencing postgraduate research at the University of Sydney examining the harmonisation of long service leave legislation in Australia. Her research focuses on labour law, regulatory design, federalism and employment standards, with particular interest in how fragmented regulatory frameworks operate in a national labour market.
Phoebe holds qualifications in law and has a strong interest in the intersection between legal theory, public policy and workplace regulation. Her research seeks to contribute both practical and scholarly perspectives to debates about the future development of Australian labour law.
Amarnath Boopalam Manjunath is a Ph.D scholar at the Faculty of Law & Justice, the University of New South Wales. His thesis focuses on understanding urban spaces as workplaces for street vendors.
Before the Ph.D candidature, Amarnath was an Assistant Lecturer at Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal University. From 2020 to 2021, Amarnath practiced as a lawyer before the Karnataka High Court and the District and Sessions Court in Bengaluru. He obtained his LL.M. in Human Rights from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, in 2022. Amarnath graduated with a BBA LL.B (Hons.) degree from Symbiosis Law School, Pune in 2020.
Associate Professor Anna Boucher is a global migration expert as it intersects with public policy, comparative politics and legal studies. Her research covers immigration, gender and racial diversity, inequality and labour market and regulatory change as well as the skill selection of migrants. She has written three books on migration that cover skilled immigration, gender diversity and workplace exploitation. The first, Gender, Migration and the Global Race for Talent (Manchester University Press) creates diversity indicators that have been used by international agencies. Her second book with Professor Justin Gest, Crossroads: Immigration Regimes in an Age of Demographic Change (Cambridge University Press, New York) compares immigration regimes across 30 countries and has won multiple awards and nomination for the Stein Rokkan Prize in Comparative Politics, considered the second most prestigious prizes globally in political science. Her third book Patterns of Exploitation: Migrant Worker Rights in Advanced Democracies came out in 2023 with Oxford University Press (New York) and analyses labour market exploitation of migrants in four countries, building on a database of 1,912 migrants in 907 court cases that she constructed with a team of lawyers. It won awards in policy impact. Her new book “Out of the Depths: The First Collection of Holocaust Songs” (with Joseph Toltz) is out in April 2026 with Manchester University Press. Anna is a regular commentator in the media and consultant to domestic and global governments on migration issues. She holds qualifications in political science and law and is an admitted solicitor of the Supreme Court of NSW, having completed a placement at Clayton Utz Law Firm (Sydney). In 2026, she is seconded from the University of Sydney at 70% to Fragomen Law Firm Global working on international projects and she is also a Research Fellow at the Australian and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG). She sits on the Immigration Minister of Australia’s Advisory Council on Skilled Migration Expert Sub-Committee (MACSM). Prior to coming to Sydney University, she was an Australian Commonwealth Scholar and Bucerius Scholar in Migration Studies at the London School of Economics where she completed her masters, doctorate and teaching qualifications.
Emma Corcoran is an Associate in DLA Piper’s International Employment team in New York and a dual-qualified Australian and US lawyer. She advises global companies on complex employment issues across multiple jurisdictions, with experience spanning global HR initiatives, handbook and policy refreshes, leave and remote work arrangements, cross-border employment due diligence, post-acquisition integration, and workforce restructuring. Before relocating to New York, Emma practiced employment law in Sydney and Melbourne, advising Australian and multinational employers on contentious and advisory matters, including discrimination, industrial relations, terminations, and employment aspects of corporate transactions. She also worked as an Employment Solicitor and Clinical Supervisor at UNSW’s Kingsford Legal Centre. Emma holds a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and Bachelor of International Studies from UNSW, and is admitted in Australia and New York.
Alex Cousner is an Industrial Manager at the Finance Sector Union of Australia, where he represents workers across the banking and finance sector in enterprise bargaining, Fair Work Commission matters, and member casework. Alex has experience across a number of different sectors and particular interests in the effects of artificial intelligence and digital transformation on workers and their conditions. At the FSU, Alex is a leader in the union's Digital Rights Campaign, which challenges offshoring, outsourcing, and AI-driven displacement in the finance sector.
Emma Croskery has practised in Sydney since 2020 across the full spectrum of employment and workplace law, with particular expertise in workplace investigations, discrimination, unfair dismissal, general protections and WHS matters, acting predominantly for corporate and government clients.
Sarah Croskery-Hewitt holds a doctorate from the University of Wollongong examining the use of intoxication evidence in sexual assault trials. She has published and presented on feminist legal theory, adversarial constructions of victim credibility, and immigration law as it intersects with family violence.
The authors (sisters) were both admitted in New Zealand and bring to this collaboration complementary perspectives (practice-side and institutional, employer-facing and survivor-centred) on a regulatory problem that sits at the intersection of their respective fields.
Dawn Duncan is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Otago, Faculty of Law, teaching and researching primarily in labour law, health and safety and ACC/workers’ compensation.
Frances Flanagan is a Senior Lecturer at UTS Law. Her research focuses the intersections between labour law, environmental crisis and changing formations of technology, gender and migration. She has an interdisciplinary background in law and history and has published in academic journals including The Sydney Law Review, New Technology Work and Employment, The Journal of Industrial Relations, The International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations and Labour History. She is the author of a monograph published by Oxford University Press and co-author of the book Work and Industrial Relations Policy in Australia (2025, Bristol University Press).
Anthony Forsyth is Senior Legal Officer at the Australian Council of Trade Unions. He is co-author of the 7th edition of Creighton & Stewart’s Labour Law (2025) and a former President of the Australian Labour Law Association.
Dr Emma Graham is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Work and Regulation at the QUT School of Law and a member of QUT’s Centre for Decent Work and Industry. Emma’s research focusses on inequalities in labour law and practice, particularly for women, carers, and children.
Eda Gül, LHLW (Hons), BSc, is a dedicated employment and industrial relations lawyer at Maguire Legal, where she advises and represents employers across employment and industrial relations matters, with a focus on strategic workplace compliance, dispute resolution and litigation. Her practice includes unfair dismissal, general protections, workplace investigations, award and enterprise agreement compliance, and the development of practical workplace policies and education for employers. Eda regularly works with business owners, HR leaders and senior decision-makers to navigate complex workplace issues with a commercial and risk-focused approach. She also contributes to employer-facing thought leadership and co-hosts Maguire Legal’s Legal On Demand podcast, which explores emerging workplace law issues affecting Australian businesses. Eda is committed to empowering employers with clear, sensible, and commercially sound legal solutions.
Associate Professor Tess Hardy is the Director of the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law at Melbourne Law School. She is an international expert on labour regulation and enforcement and is currently co-lead on an ARC Linkage project with the Fair Work Ombudsman. Prior to joining academia, Tess was a private practitioner based in Melbourne, Tokyo and Hong Kong, advising principally in the area of work law. Tess is an Editor of the Australian Journal of Labour Law and Vice-President of the Australian Labour Law Association.
Dr Lisa Heap is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Future Work. She is a researcher and labour lawyer with a research focus on gender and inequalities at work, work health and safety and the regulation of work. Lisa holds degrees in political science/industrial relations, law and applied human rights. Lisa’s PhD in Law from RMIT University investigated new regulatory approaches to prevent gender-based violence and harassment at work.
Brett Heino is a legal scholar and historian in the Law Faculty at the University of Technology Sydney. His research interests include the political economy of labour law, literary geography, and the legal and spatial structure of post-World War II Australian capitalism. He has previously published three books: Regulation Theory and Australian Capitalism: Rethinking Social Justice and Labour Law (Rowman & Littlefield 2017), Space, Place and Capitalism: The Literary Geographies of The Unknown Industrial Prisoner (Palgrave Macmillan 2021) and Literary Geographies and the Work of David Ireland: An Australian Atlas (Palgrave Macmillan 2025). He has also published in leading journals including Political Geography, Environment & Planning E, Labour History and the Journal of Australian Political Economy.
Ella Kelly has served as an Employment, Discrimination and Sexual Harassment solicitor with the Women's Legal Centre for six years, with extensive experience advising and representing clients in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia, the ACT and Australian Human Rights Commissions, and the Fair Work Commission. The Women's Legal Centre ACT regularly represents clients who have experienced sexual harassment and do not have capacity to pay for private legal advice and representation.
Caroline Kelly is a Lecturer at Melbourne Law School. She researches in labour law and administrative law, with a particular interest in the public/private divide in the employment sphere and the common law contract of employment.
Caroline holds a PhD from Melbourne Law School, an LLM with distinction from University College London and a BA/LLB (Hons) from the University of Melbourne. Her doctoral research examined the reflection of administrative law principles in the regulation of employer power. Caroline has published in the Australian Journal of Labour Law and the Sydney Law Review. She served as Associate Editor of the Australian Journal of Labour Law between 2023 and 2025.
Prior to joining Melbourne Law School, Caroline worked as a sessional academic at the University of Sydney and ANU, Researcher to the NSW Court of Appeal and Associate to The Hon Justice Richard Tracey AM RFD at the Federal Court of Australia.
Dr Angela Kintominas (she/her) is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Law and Justice, UNSW Sydney, where she teachers labour law and legal theory to undergraduate students and methods courses to the higher degree research candidates. Her research expertise is in feminist theory, social reproduction and work, with a particular focus on the intersection of welfare state, migration and labour law. She has published in Economic and Labour Relations Review, Work, Employment & Society, Feminists@Law, Gender Work & Organization, Social Politics and the Anti-Trafficking Review. She is an editorial board member (and former managing editor) of the Australian Feminist Law Journal and a fellow of the UNSW Gender Equality Hub.
Dr Petra Mahy is a Senior Lecturer at Melbourne Law School. As both a law academic and an anthropologist, and her research interests generally span the disciplines of socio-legal, comparative law and regulatory studies. She has particular interests in the legal and regulatory systems of Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia, and the Pacific, and researches in the areas of labour law, company law, legal history and gender studies.
Shae McCrystal is Professor of Labour Law in the University of Sydney Law School and President of the Australian Labour Law Association.
Shae’s research focuses primarily on the regulation of collective bargaining and strike action for employees and independent contractors and she has published extensively in these areas including The Right to Strike in Australia (Federation Press, 2010), Strike Ballots, Democracy and Law (Oxford University Press, 2020) (with B Creighton, C Denvir, R Johnstone and A Orchiston) and The Cambridge Handbook of Labor in Competition Law (Cambridge University Press, 2022) (with S Paul and E McGaughey). She is also co-author of Creighton and Stewart’s Labour Law, 7th edition (Federation Press, 2025 with A Stewart, A Forsyth, M Irving and R Johnstone).
Nicole McPherson is a National Assistant Secretary of the Finance Sector Union of Australia and the President of the Victorian Trades Hall Council.
After starting her career as a lawyer, Nicole joined the Finance Sector Union and worked as an Industrial Advocate and National Industrial Officer. She was then elected as the Secretary of the Victoria and Tasmania branch of the Finance Sector Union before being elected as the National Assistant Secretary in 2023.
Nicole leads the Finance Sector Union's Organising and Industrial teams in fighting for progressive rights for all finance workers. She is passionate about business and human rights, the ethical use of artificial intelligence in the finance sector, and workplace health and safety.
Nicole holds a Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Laws with Honours, Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice and Master of Laws.
Dr Grant Morris is Associate Professor in Law at Victoria University of Wellington. He is an accredited mediator and has also worked as a facilitator and negotiator. Dr Morris’s research areas include mediation, interest-based negotiation, employment law, and New Zealand legal history. He is the author of several books and numerous articles on these subjects, including the recently released "Mediation in New Zealand" (2nd ed, Thomson Reuters, 2026).
Philippa Munton is Counsel in the Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice at Clifford Chance in Sydney. She acts primarily on complex class actions and large‑scale disputes, with a particular emphasis on their intersection with employment and labour law.
Joshua Newton is a senior legal and policy leader with extensive expertise in industrial relations, economic policy, and organisational strategy. He currently heads the legal and policy department at the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union (AMWU), driving efforts to improve conditions for its members through legal, policy, and advocacy initiatives. Additionally, Joshua is an Affiliated Researcher at the University of Western Australia, specialising in public health and its intersections with labor law. He holds degrees from the University of Cambridge, the Australian National University, and the University of Western Australia.
Marius Olivier has been involved in labour law and social security teaching, research and policy work for many years. He is attached to several higher education institutions, and also directs an
independent institute focusing on regulatory and policy research, advice and capacity building in the areas of labour law and social protection, often in relation to migration contexts. Much of his work focuses on the position of migrant workers, reflecting not only on national policy and regulatory environments, but also international and comparative precedent.
Dr Adriana Orifici is a Senior Lecturer and Director of the Labour, Equality and Human Rights Research Group (LEAH) in the Department of Business Law and Taxation and Secretary of the Australian Labour Law Association.
Dr Orifici is a legal scholar whose teaching and research interests span labour and equality law. She uses doctrinal, theoretical and empirical legal research methods to produce new understandings about the law and its impact on stakeholders at work. Her research has been published in Australia and internationally.
Dr Orifici's doctoral thesis, completed at Melbourne Law School, was awarded the Harold Luntz Research Thesis Prize for the best thesis in 2024. Adriana’s first book, Workplace Investigations: Justice and the Legal Regulation of Employer Conduct (Oxford University Press, 2026) draws on interdisciplinary, doctrinal, theoretical and empirical research to offer the first comprehensive critique of the legal regulation of workplace investigations in Australia.
Graeme Orr has taught labour law for 30 years at Griffith and Queensland Universities. His primary research interests lie in the law of politics and collective labour relations. Graeme is currently the cases section editor of the Australian Journal of Labour Law, is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences and of the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences and a past-fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.
Alicia Pearce is a Quentin Bryce Doctoral Scholar, UTS Law.
Marilyn Pittard is Professor of Law in Monash University’s Faculty of Law, where she has served as Dean and Associate Deans over many years. With responsibility for labour and employment law in both the undergraduate and postgraduate law programmes, she publishes extensively in labour and employment law in books and law journals, with research publications arising from Australian Research Council grant and other external funding. Her recent books and articles include Australian Labour and Employment Law (2nd ed, 2024, LexisNexis, co-author Bruce Moore); “Women and Flexible Work”, chapter in B Batagol B et al (eds), The Feminist Legislation Project: Rewriting Laws for Gender-Based Justice (Routledge, 2025) and “’Fire and rehire’: four lessons from Australia” (with KD Ewing), (2024) 53(3) Industrial Law Journal 331-369. Professor Pittard is founding member of the Australian Labour law Association and has served as President, Vice President and Committee member since its inception.
Michael Rawling is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law UTS. He has researched and taught labour law for almost 20 years. His research interests include regulating supply chains and gig work for employment policy purposes and regulating for democracy at work. Michael is the immediate past secretary of ALLA. He is currently a director of the Training, Health, Education Audit, Compliance and Health Organisation (TEACHO), a transport industry research and training NGO.
Ros Read has an ongoing interest in research and writing about the protection of collective rights to organise and freedom of association in Australian labour law and has published several articles in this area. Her interest arises as a result of her professional experience working as an Associate to a Commissioner in the then AIRC, and subsequently as a legal officer in two separate divisions of the CFMEU over a period of 19 years. This professional experience has led to an understanding that these issues are not theoretical or abstract, the effects of the de-collectivisation of Australian labour law on freedom of association detrimentally affect the capacity of Australian employees to exercise basic rights and to secure safety and dignity in the workplace.
Dr Cameron Roles is a Senior Lecturer at the ANU College of Law Governance and Policy, with a research interest in labour law. His current research project is concerned with the extent to which the law can legitimately prevent a current or former employee from soliciting, enticing or otherwise encouraging one or many current or former colleagues to leave employment and enter into competition with the former employer. The project critiques trial and appellate court decisions in the United Kingdom and Australia, and seeks to better define the extent to which an employer should be able to regulate such employee competition.
Cameron holds Bachelor’s degrees in Arts and Law from Macquarie University, an LLM from the University of Sydney and a PhD from the University of Technology Sydney.
Dr Jonathan Sale is a Senior Lecturer in Human Resources Management and Program Director for HRM and Supply Chain Management at the School of Management, College of Business and Law, Adelaide University teaching and researching in the fields of employment relations/industrial relations, HRM, negotiation, conflict management and resolution, and labour law. His study areas include Australia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and ASEAN.
Dr Eugene Schofield-Georgeson is a Senior Lecturer at UTS Faculty of Law where he teaches labour and employment law and Australian Constitutional Law. He researches labour law. His latest book is 'Contract, Labour Law and the Realities of Working Life' (Routledge, 2025).
Brendan Schwab is an Australian lawyer and trade unionist and is an architect of the global and Australian player association movements.
Over a 30-year career - including eight years as Executive Director of the World Players Association -Brendan has led multiple landmark campaigns, cases and rounds of collective bargaining (particularly in football) and collaborated with and united the strongest player associations in the world.
Brendan’s academic work focuses on sport, labour and human rights. He has been published in multiple journals including the Maryland Journal of International Law, the International Sports Law Journal, the Journal on the Legal Aspects of Sport and Sweet & Maxwell’s International Sports Law Review.
On Australia Day 2026, Brendan was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for significant service to professional sport as a lawyer, and as an advocate for athletes’ rights. In 2022, he was inducted into the Football Australia Hall of Fame.
Andrew See is a barrister, industrial relations consultant and adjunct senior lecturer at Griffith University. Between 2011 and 2020, Andrew was a Resident Magistrate in the Republic of Fiji, where he sat on the Employment Relations Tribunal. Today, Andrew performs a broad range of legal and consultancy services across a diverse client base in both Australia and the Pacific.
Andrew holds degrees in arts (economics), law, philosophy and business administration, and diplomas in industrial relations and business administration.
Apoorva Sharma is undertaking his Ph.D. at La Trobe Law School. His doctoral thesis examines the relationship between minimum wage and poverty under the supervision of Dr. Luis Eslava and Dr. Julia Dehm. The project identifies three major characteristics of how the minimum wage operates, namely depoliticisation, bureaucratisation and rendering technical. Apoorva's research is part of the Global Poverty and the 21st Century Project coordinated by Dr Luis Eslava. Apoorva's research contends that the minimum wage exists to maintain a certain level of productivity and profitability which is imposed against the background threat of precarity, looking at India and Australia as case studies.
Prior to joining La Trobe, Apoorva was an Associate Professor at OP Jindal Global University in India, teaching undergraduate and graduate law students a variety of subjects, including labour law, criminal procedure and intellectual property rights.
Dr Natalie Sheard is a lawyer and McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Melbourne with expertise in discrimination and privacy harms arising from the use of AI systems, particularly in employment. Her work investigates how, when and where such harm may occur, its impacts and the adequacy of existing Australian and international legal responses. She is a member of the Australian Discrimination Law Experts Group and the digital equality group of the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law. She is also an affiliate member of the Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making + Society. She is active in law reform and policy development and has significant experience as a social justice lawyer and in digital innovation to increase access to justice.
Xin Su is a PhD student in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology Sydney. Her research focuses on international labour law and comparative employment regulation. She is particularly interested in ILO international labour standards, labour law regimes across the Asia-Pacific region, and human rights at work. Her PhD thesis explores occupational safety and health issues for gig workers across the APAC.
Before pursuing advanced legal studies, Xin Su studied in both Law and Management. She holds a dual Bachelor’s degree in Law and Management from China University of Political Science and Law, and a Master’s degree specialising in labour law from the University of Melbourne. She has professional experience providing labour compliance consulting services for Chinese enterprises that have already expanded or are planning to expand overseas, with extensive knowledge of regional labour standards and comparative labour law in the Asia-Pacific. Her background across legal studies, management, and transnational labour practice endows her with an interdisciplinary perspective on legal research.
Penny Thew | Called to the NSW Bar in 2005, Penny is highly regarded for her expertise in all aspects of employment and discrimination law. With over 25 years’ experience in advocacy, advising and dispute resolution, Legal 500 and Doyle’s Guide rank Penny as a leading barrister in her areas of expertise. Penny is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb) and a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD). She is an executive member of ALLA and the Women Lawyers Association of NSW, as well as a member of the Bar Association’s Industrial, Employment, Health and Safety Committee and Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee. She holds a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Arts from UNSW, a Masters of Labour Law and Relations from USyd and a Diploma of International Commercial Arbitration from the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
Kelly Thomas is a senior industrial relations leader with extensive experience in Australia’s union movement and as a representative of workers. As National Industrial Director a the ASU, she leads high level industrial campaigns across the social and community and disability services, local government, and private sectors, with a strong focus on collective outcomes and sector-wide reform.
Kelly is recognised for her pragmatic problem-solving, and ability to translate complex legal frameworks into effective industrial strategies. She regularly coordinates multi-stakeholder positions, including across unions and regulatory bodies, and plays a central role in major Fair Work Commission proceedings.
Kelly is committed to advancing equitable outcomes for workers through evidence-based advocacy and disciplined industrial practice.
Clive Tillman is a lawyer from Melbourne, Australia. He was admitted into practice in 2021 upon completing his practical legal training at the College of Law. Prior to undertaking studies in law, Clive completed an MA in History. He possesses a robust foundation in law, history, and political philosophy, which he aims to leverage to offer significant contributions to the field of labour law.
Currently, Clive is engaged in doctoral studies at RMIT University, working under the supervision of Professors Shelley Marshall and Sean Cooney. His research focuses on the decline of collective bargaining coverage in Australia under the Fair Work Act, with the objective of identifying ways to counteract this decline. His work employs a strong comparative method to identify aspects of foreign collective bargaining systems that may inform and inspire potential reforms to Australian collective labour law.
Kate Walawski is a Partner in the Employment and Safety practice at Dentons in Perth and an accomplished speaker, facilitator and thought leader in workplace relations, employment and safety law.
Kate is regularly called upon to present to employers, boards, executives, senior leaders and people and culture professionals on the rapidly evolving legal landscape affecting Australian workplaces. Her particular strength lies in translating complex employment, industrial relations and work health and safety obligations into practical, commercially astute guidance that assists organisations to manage risk, discharge their duties and make defensible decisions in high-pressure environments.
Kate has developed a recognised profile in the areas of workplace safety, psychosocial risk, officer due diligence, regulatory compliance and personal liability. She assists employers and senior decision-makers to understand not only what the law requires, but what good governance, effective risk control and proactive leadership look like in practice.
Dianna Zhang is a Higher Degree Research candidate in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and an admitted lawyer in New South Wales. Her research examines the early implementation of Australia’s unfair deactivation regime for employee-like platform workers, with a particular focus on access to justice, procedural fairness, and algorithmic management in digital labour platforms. Her broader research interests include labour law, platform work regulation, migrant worker vulnerability, and the impact of emerging technologies on employment relations. Dianna is also the recipient of the 2026–2027 Dr Daryll Hull Memorial Fellowship in Industrial Relations.