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Helps students build confidence and skills.
Makes even dry topics interesting.
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About Marjorie
Marjorie Jerrard is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Management at Monash Business School, within the Faculty of Business and Economics at Monash University, based at the Caulfield campus. She holds a PhD in trade union strategy in the meat industry from Monash University, awarded in 2005, a Master of Arts in Ancient History from the University of Queensland, and a Graduate Diploma in Industrial Relations from Queensland University of Technology. Prior to her current role, she worked as an equity and diversity consultant.
Her research interests include trade union effectiveness and strategy, union-community alliances, trade unions and environmental issues and politics, industrial relations and human resource management in the Australian and New Zealand meat processing industries, diversity management and industrial relations, Trade Unions, Industrial Relations, Diversity and Inclusion, and History of Human Resource Management. Key publications comprise 'Impact of regulatory and other changes on Australian unions’ strategies and campaigns, 2023–2024' (Journal of Industrial Relations, 2024, with G.J. Bamber and T. McKeown), 'How do trade unions manage themselves? a study of Australian unions’ administrative practices' (Journal of Industrial Relations, 2022, with G.J. Bamber and P.F. Clark), 'Union industrial responses to escalation in live cattle export in Brisbane, 1978' (Labour History, 2022), 'When unionists responded to escalation in the export of live cattle, Brisbane, 1978' (Radical Currents, Labour Histories, 2022), and 'The live animal export industry: a case study of the role played by an Australian blue-collar union in the animal welfare and rights movement' (Labor History, 2020). Jerrard was awarded the ASSLH & Unions NSW Prize in Labour History in 2017. She has contributed as Chief Investigator to projects including 'New Technologies, the Future of Work, Skills and Industrial Relations' (2021-2022) and served on the programme committee for the International Webinar: Building a New Social Contract (2020).