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Chris F Wright (PhD, Cambridge) is an Associate Professor in the Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney. His research examines the institutional drivers of and barriers to the attainment of decent work. Chris’s expertise relates to the regulation of work, employment relationships and labour migration internationally particularly in English-speaking advanced economies and in low-wage sectors. He specialises in comparative, qualitative and mixed-method research designs and methodologies. Chris is passionate about using his research expertise to analyse and inform public knowledge and debate and to support the development of evidence-based public policy relating to work, employment relations and labour markets.Chris has written commissioned research reports for the UK, Dutch, Australian and NSW governments, the International Labour Organization, the Lowy Institute, and various trade union and business organisations. Chris has written over 90 journal articles and scholarly book chapters and edited 10 journal special issues and book volumes, including Protecting the Future of Work: New Institutional Arrangements for Safeguarding Labour Standards (Emerald, 2023) and International and Comparative Employment Relations: Global Crises and Institutional Responses (SAGE, 2021). He is an Associate Editor of Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, a past President of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ) and a member of the Australian Government’s Ministerial Advisory Council on Skilled Migration Expert Subcommittee.Prior joining the University of Sydney in 2014, Chris worked at the University of Cambridge, Goldsmiths, University of London and Macquarie University. He has been a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at King's College London and held visiting positions at University College Dublin, the University of Copenhagen, Scuola Normale Superiore and the Australian National University.Chris has received several prestigious grants and fellowships including an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award for research on employer strategies for developing a skilled workforce, a University of Sydney Fellowship on the business and labour market impact of skilled immigration, and a UK Economic and Social Research Council Placement Fellowship on innovations in worker representation and labour market regulation. In 2015 the International Labour and Employment Relations Association awarded Chris the Luis Aparicio Prize for best emerging scholar.

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