Carolyn Sutherland Email and Phone Number

Carolyn Sutherland is a member of the Labour, Equality and Human Rights Research Group (LEAH) in the Department of Business Law and Taxation at Monash Business School. Carolyn's research focuses on the influence of law on employers and workers. She has a particular interest in empirical legal and interdisciplinary methods. Carolyn has used quantitative methods to examine complexity in Australian enterprise agreements and to compare worker protection in countries in the Asia-Pacific region. She is the lead Chief Investigator on an Australian Research Council Discovery project (2019-2024) which is empirically investigating the formal and informal regulation of labour disputes in Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam. Carolyn received an Australian Award for University Teaching - Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning in 2011; and the Dean's Award for Research Excellence in 2016. She was the Head of the Department of Business Law and Taxation from 2021 to 2023.Carolyn lectures in employment law and in research methods for Masters and PhD students.