The University of Western Australia

Professor Trish Todd

Director Undergraduate Programs/Professor
Business School Undergraduate Student Centre

Contact details

Address

Business School Undergraduate Student Centre
The University of Western Australia (M261)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia

Phone

6488 2881

Email

trish.todd@uwa.edu.au

Biography

Assoc/Prof. Todd is Co-Director of the Consortium for Diversity at Work in the Business School as well as Director, Undergraduate Programs. Her recent research has focused on gender pay equity, the implementation of work/life balance programs and employer responses to changes in the IR regulatory system. Trish, with her colleague Joan Eveline, completed a Review of the Gender Pay Gap in WA for the WA Government in 2004. Trish teaches in the area of employment relations.

Key research

Implementation of work/life balance policies in the workplace

Gender pay equity

The impact of changes in the Australian industrial relations regulatory environment

Publications

Career 10 best

Eveline, J and Todd, P. (2008) “Gender Mainstreaming: the answer to the gender pay gap?” Gender, Work and Organization, Online Early 10.1111/j.1468-0432.2007.000386.x 16 (5) Can now be accessed online (due in print Sept 2009).

Todd, P. and Eveline, J. (2007) “The Gender Pay Gap in Western Australia: Gross Inequity, Women Still ‘Counting for Nothing’?”, Labour and Industry, 18(2), pp.103-120.

Todd, P. and Burgess, J. (2006) “Call Centres” in Waring, P. and M. Bray (eds) Evolving Employment Relations: Industry Profiles from Australia, McGraw-Hill, North Ryde.

Todd, P.; Caspersz, D. and Sutherland, M. (2006) “Employers' Choices in Workplace Regulation: Individual Agreements” The Journal of Industrial Relations, 48 (4) Sept.

Todd, P. and Bhopal M. (2002) " Trade Unions, Segmentation and diversity: The organizing dilemmas in Malaysia" in Colgan, Fiona & Sue Ledwith (eds) Gender, Diversity and Trade Unions:International Perspectives London: Routledge.

Todd, P. and Peetz, D. (2001) “Malaysian Industrial Relations at Century’s Turn: Vision 2020 or a Spectre of the Past?”, International Journal of Human Resource Management, vol.12, no.8, pp1365-1382.

Peetz, D. and Todd, P. (2000) Globalisation and Industrial Relations in Malaysia, International Labour Organization, Bangkok.

Nesdale, A.R. and Todd, P. (1998) “Intergroup ratio and the Contact Hypothesis” Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 28(13), pp.1196-1217.

Todd, P. and Nesdale, A. R. (1997) " Promoting Intercultural Contact between Australian and International University Students" Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 19(1), 61-76.

Jomo, K.S. and Todd, P. (1994), Trade Unions and the State in Peninsular Malaysia, Oxford University Press, Kuala Lumpur.

Publications in the last 5 years

Book Chapters (Commercial)

Todd, P.A., Burgess, J. 2006, Call Centres in Evolving Employment Relations: Industry Studies from Australia, McGraw-Hill, North Ryde, New South Wales.

Todd, P.A., Eveline, J. 2006, Gender Pay Equity: Its Time (or is it?) in Making the Link No 17, Affirmative Action and Employment Relations, CCH Australia Ltd, Sydney.

Journal Articles (School Refereed Journal)

Eveline, J. and Todd, P.2009, “Gender Mainstreaming: The Answer to the Gender Pay Gap?”, Gender, Work and Organization 16 (5) Plus Online Early 10.1111/j.1468-0432.2007.000386.x (accepted 2008)

Todd, P. and Eveline, J. 2007, “The Gender Pay Gap in Western Australia: Gross Inequity, Women Still ‘Counting for Nothing’?”, Labour and Industry, 18(2), pp.103-120.

Eveline, J. and Todd, P. 2007, “Introduction: The Way Forward in the Post-Inquiry Era”, ?”, Labour and Industry, 18(2), pp.1-9.

Todd, P., Lansbury, R. and Davis E. 2006, “Industrial Relations in Malaysia: Some Proposals for Reform”, Philippine Journal of Labor and Industrial Relations, Vol. XXVI Nos. 1 &2, pp.154-170.

Todd, P.A., Caspersz, D.M., Sutherland, M.J. 2006, “Employers' Choices in Workplace Regulation: Individual Agreements”, The Journal of Industrial Relations, 48, 4, pp. 507-521.

Journal Articles (Review Article)

Baird, M., Todd, P.A. 2006, “Government Policy, Women and the New Workplace Regime: A Contradiction in Terms and Policies”, Making the Link No 17, Affirmative Action and Employment Relations, 17, pp. 61-64.

Full Refereed Conference Publications

Todd, P., Binns, J. and Eveline J. 2007, “Work/Life Balance: it’s now management’s problem?” Paper presented to 5th Gender, Work and Organization Conference, Keele University, U.K. June 22-24.

Todd, P.A., Caspersz, D.M., Sutherland, M. 2004, “’Out with the Individual Agreemetns, in with the Collective Bargaining... Did Someone Forget to Tell the Employers?’: Employers' Responses to the Changes in Western Australia's Regulatory Framework”, 18th AIRAANZ Conference, Queensland, Australia, 2004, pp. 525-534.

Conference Full Written Non Refereed

Todd, P., Binns, J. and Eveline J. 2007, “Work/Life integration strategies and Managerial Prerogative: implications for ‘Work Choices’ outcomes” paper presented to the Our Work, Our Lives Conference, Adelaide, September.

Todd, P. and Eveline, J. 2006, “Pay equity and government policymaking: swimming upstream and colliding currents” Paper presented at the Diversity Forum, International Industrial Relations Association Conference, Lima, Sept.

Todd, P.A., Eveline, J. 2005, “The Gender Pay Gap: Reviewed, Researched, Will it be Resolved?”, AIRAANZ (Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand) Conference 2005: Reworking work, Sydney, Australia, 2, pp. 235-244.

Todd, P.A., Lansbury, R., Davis, E. 2004, “Industrial Relations in Malaysia: Some Proposals for Reform”, 18th AIRRAANZ Conference, Queensland, Australia, 2004, pp. 264-273.

Extract of Conference Paper

Eveline, J., Todd, P.A. 2005, “Reviewing the Gender Pay Gap is Not the Answer: Feminist Theory, Gender Mainstreaming and the Audit Society”, 4th Gender, Work and Organization Conference, Keele, UK, 2, pp. 235-243.

Other Public Output

Todd, P.A., Eveline, J. 2004, “Report on the Review of the Gender Pay Gap in Western Australia”, N/A, 2004, November.

Funding received

Dr Patricia Todd, Ms Jacqueline Hutchinson, Dr Jennifer Binns 2007, “Work Life Balance Public Sector Pilot Program”, Department of Consumer & Employment Protection, Funds Approved: $68,821.00. RFCD:

Dr Patricia Todd, Associate Professor Joan Eveline 2006, “Analysis of the Implementation of Work/Life Policies in the Department of Industry and Resources, Western Australia, Utilising a 'Whole-of-Workplace' Framework”, Department of Consumer & Employment Protection, Funds Approved: $17,000.00. RFCD:

Professor Leonie Still, Associate Professor Joan Eveline, Dr Patricia Todd 2000, “Developing occupations for women in the new economy: The case of call centres”, UWA Research Grants Scheme, Funds Approved: $8,489.00. RFCD:

Associate Professor Delys Bird, Dr Patricia Todd 1996, “A study of the outcomes by gender in promotions at The University of Western Australia: theory, history and experience”, ARC Small Grants, Funds Approved: $5,114.00. RFCD:

Dr Patricia Todd, Prof A Nesdale 1995, “Implementation of a model to promote intercultural understanding and acceptance between ethnic groups in a social community”, UWA Special Grant for New Researchers, Funds Approved: $6,500.00. RFCD:

Memberships

AIRAANZ
WA Industrial Relations Society

Previous positions

2005-2006, Deputy Head of School, School of Economics and Commerce
1993-2000, Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, Dept of Organisational & Labour Studies, UWA
1986-1992, Employed in the following administrative positions at UWA: Personnel Assistant; Relief Faculty Officer; Assistant Admissions Officer; Head, Overseas Students Office
1985-1986, Lecturer-in-charge, History department, College of Preparatory Studies, Mara Institute of Technology, Malaysia
1981-1983, Tutor/Research Assistant, Dept of Industrial Relations, University of Sydney
1979-1981, Administrator, Faculty of Arts, University of Sydney

Teaching

Industrial Relations
Human Resource Management

Current external positions

Member of the WA Government’s Social Inclusion Reference

Current projects

Industrial Relevance
Analysis of the barriers to implementation of worklife balance policies in four WA public sector agencies

Collaborations with Other Institutions
Member of the Work and Family Policy Roundtable – a group of academic researchers specialising in work and family life issues
Member of the Editorial Boards for the Journal of Industrial Relations (published by Sage) and the Labour and Management in Development journal (published online)

Research profile

Research profile and publications