Rate My Professor Anne Junor

Dr Anne Junor is an Adjunct Associate Professor and Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Business at UNSW Canberra, University of New South Wales. She earned a PhD in Sociology from Macquarie University in 1998, a Bachelor of Economics from the University of New England in 1973, a Diploma of Education from the University of Sydney in 1964, and a Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours from the University of Sydney in 1963. Her extensive career includes secondary school teaching in English and History for the NSW Department of Education from 1965–1971 and 1974–1983, where she also served on the English Syllabus Committee from 1978–1981; lecturing at Armidale Teachers College and the University of New England in 1972–1973; research officer for the NSW Teachers Federation from 1983–1988; casual and contract lecturing at the Universities of Sydney and Macquarie from 1990–1992; lecturer and senior lecturer at the University of Canberra's School of Management and Policy from 1995–2000; and at UNSW from 2001–2009 as lecturer, senior lecturer, and associate professor in the School of Industrial Relations and Organisational Behaviour, Organisation and Management, and Management within the UNSW Business School. From 2010–2020, she was Honorary Associate Professor and Deputy Director until 2016 at the Industrial Relations Research Centre, UNSW Sydney. Since 2018, she has held her current honorary position at UNSW Canberra and joined the Industrial Relations Research Group and Public Sector Research Group in 2021.

Junor's research focuses on skill recognition, particularly in the service sector; gender pay equity; precarious employment; and employment relations in public and NGO sectors. She co-authored books including Unions and Globalisation: Governments, Management, and the State at Work (2011) and contributed key articles such as 'Casual University Work: Choice, Risk, Inequity and the Case for Regulation' (2004), 'Invisible Work, Invisible Skills: Interactive Customer Service as Articulation Work' (2005), 'Putting the Process Back In: Rethinking Service Sector Skill' (2010), and 'The COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons on Building More Equal and Sustainable Societies' (2020). She led ARC Linkage and Discovery grants on topics like recognising skills in unskilled jobs (2011–2013), aircraft maintenance workforce (2011–2013), and casual professionals in education (2001–2004), alongside contract research developing the Spotlight skill identification tool for sectors including early childhood education, aged care, and school administration. Junor received the UNSW Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence in 2005 and served as Editor of the Economic and Labour Relations Review. Her expertise has supported expert witness reports for the Fair Work Commission and policy advocacy for unions and agencies.