Dr Bob Russell

B Arts, M Arts, PhD

Associate Professor, Griffith Business School 

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Biography

Bob Russell teaches in the Department of Employment Relations at the Griffith Business School. He received his PhD in 1983 from the State University of New York at Binghamton, specialising in industrial sociology, political sociology and development studies. Bob lectured for 15 years at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, where he was a professor of Sociology. Since 2000 he has worked at Griffith University in Brisbane Australia where he specialises in work and employment studies and offers courses in globalisation and comparative employment relations. Bob is the author of previous books on industrial relations in Canada (1990), and work transformations in staples producing sectors, including the global mining industry, (1999). More recently the focus of his research has been directed at work and employment in information industries and its globalisation through outsourcing. Some of this research has recently appeared in Australian and international journals including the Journal of Industrial Relations, Work, Employment and Society, New Technology, Work and Employment and the International Journal of Management Reviews. Bob has recently completed two new books, Smiling Down the Line: Info-Service Work in the Global Economy, University of Toronto Press, 2009 and a co-edited book, The Next Available Operator: Managing Human Resources in the Indian Business Process Outsourcing Industry, Sage, 2009. Currently Bob is pursing further research on the impact of new information and communication technologies on established professions, working with Queensland Health on a project that examines the relationships between professional identities and new technologies.