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Dr Trudy Bates

Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Email: t.bates@ecu.edu.au
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5482-1654

Dr Trudy Bates is an early career academic in Management at the School of Business and Law.

Key Research Areas and Interests

  • Gender and working lives
  • Feminist qualitative research methodologies

Biography

Trudy received her MSc (Human Resource Management) from the University of Bradford in 2011 and Ph.D (Business and Management) from the same University in 2019. Her principal research interest is gender and working lives, although she has concurrent research in feminist qualitative research methodologies.

Dr Bates was awarded both the University of Western Australia (UWA) Award for Excellence in Teaching - Early Career and the Arts, Business, Law and Education Teaching Excellence Award in 2021. In 2020, she was awarded the UWA Student Guild's Students' Choice Award and received the 10th Biennial International Interdisciplinary Gender, Work and Organization Conference, Joan Acker and Heather Höpfl Memorial Scholarship in 2018. Trudy is a professional member of the Australian Human Resource Institute. When not working, she enjoys an outdoor life of fishing, camping and travelling.

  • Australian Human Resource Institute, Professional MAHRI
  • 2021 – Excellence in Teaching, Early Career, University of Western Australia
  • 2021 – Excellence in Teaching, Arts, Business, Law and Technology, University of Western Australia
  • 2021 – Student Guild’s Students’ Choice Award, University of Western Australia
  • 2018 - Joan Acker and Heather Höpfl Memorial Scholarship, 10th Biennial International Interdisciplinary Gender, Work and Organization Conference
  • 2011 - Martin Bousfield Award for Academic Excellence, University of Bradford
  • 2011 - Best Academic Presentation, National Doctoral Conference, University of Leeds

Theme two: Society and Culture; Diverse, equitable, informed and productive communities, schools and workplaces

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, England, 2019.
  • Postgraduate Diploma with Distinction in Research Methods, England, 2013.
  • Master of Science with Distinction in HRM, England, 2011.

Research Outputs

Journal Articles

  • Bates, T. (2022). Rethinking how we work with Acker's theory of gendered organizations: An abductive approach for feminist empirical research. Gender, Work and Organization, 29(4), 1041-1064. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12795.

Journal Articles

  • Bates, T., Thomas, CS., Timming, AR. (2021). Employment discrimination against gender diverse individuals in Western Australia. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, 40(3), 273-289. https://doi.org/10.1108/EDI-04-2020-0073.

Reports

  • Bates, T., Hernandez Grande, A., Farr-Wharton, B., Herrlander Birgerson, E. (2021). 2021 Wellbeing at Work: Pulse Check #2 Results Ambulance Tasmania and the Department of Police, Fire and Emergency Management. Australia. Ambulance Tasmania and the Department of Police, Fire and Emergency Management.

Research Student Supervision

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