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Dr Alexis Vassiley

Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 6304 6763
Email: a.vassiley@ecu.edu.au
Campus: Joondalup  
Room: JO2.432D  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0305-2389

Alexis is a Research Associate in the Centre for Work and Wellbeing in the School of Business and Law.

Key Research Areas

  • Unions
  • Mining
  • Precarious labour
  • Migrant workers
  • Future of work

Biography

Alexis is an early career researcher with a background in industrial relations and labour history. He recently completed his PhD in Curtin University’s School of Management on work, employment relations and trade unionism in the Pilbara iron ore industry. He has a strong inter-disciplinary background, with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and a Bachelor of Laws from UWA, and has taught at Curtin, UWA and ECU. He has published on trade unions and social issues, and unions in the mining sector. Alexis also brings policy and research experience from roles in the public service and NGOs.

ECU Research Themes

Theme Two: Society and Culture

Languages spoken
  • English
  • Italian
  • French

Awards and recognition
  • 2020 – PhD conference scholarship, Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ)
  • 2016 – Australian Postgraduate Award and Curtin Research Scholarship, Australian Government and Curtin University
  • 2016 – Higher Degree by Research Student Quality Publication Award, Curtin Business School
  • 2016 – Excellence Award, Curtin University Postgraduate Students’ Association
  • 2012 – Eric Fry Labour History Scholarship, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History (ASSLH).

Professional associations
  • Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand, member.
  • Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, member and committee member of Perth branch.

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Curtin University of Technology, 2021.
  • Bachelor of Arts with Honours in History, The University of Western Australia, 2012.
  • Bachelor of Laws, The University of Western Australia, 2010.

Research Outputs

2024

Journal Articles

  • Vassiley, A. (2024). Once more on the rank and file – union bureaucracy interplay: Mining unionism in Australia’s Pilbara region. Capital and Class, 2024(Article in press), pp. https://doi.org/10.1177/03098168241240462.

2023

Journal Articles

  • Bentley, T., Onnis, L., Vassiley, A., Farr-Wharton, B., Caponecchia, C., Andrew, C., O'Neill, S., De Almeida Neto, A., Huron, V., Green, N. (2023). A Systematic Review Of Literature On Occupational Health And Safety Interventions For Older Workers. Ergonomics: an international journal of research and practice in human factors and ergonomics, 2023(article in press), TBD. https://doi.org/10.1080/00140139.2023.2176550.
  • Bentley, T., Caponecchia, C., Onnis, L., Brunetto, Y., Farr-Wharton, B., Cattani, M., Neto, A., Vassiley, A. (2023). A systems model for the design of occupational health and safety management systems inclusive of work-from-home arrangements. Applied Ergonomics: human factors in technology and society, 109(May 2023), Article number 103966. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2023.103966.
  • Jogulu, U., Green, N., Franken, E., Vassiley, A., Bentley, T., Onnis, L. (2023). Work arrangement ‘yo-yo’: forced flexibility from the office to home and back again. Personnel Review, 2023(Article in press), 20 pages. https://doi.org/10.1108/PR-02-2023-0088.

2022

Journal Articles

  • Vassiley, A. (2022). Rethinking the Robe River dispute 1986-7 – de-unionisation in Australia’s Pilbara iron ore industry in the early neoliberal period.. Labor History (US), 63(2), 248-266. https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656X.2022.2053842.

2021

Journal Articles

  • Vassiley, A., Russell, F. (2021). Concession-bargaining in Australian higher education: the case of the National Jobs Protection Framework. Labour and Industry: a journal of the social and economic relations of work, 31(4), 439-456. https://doi.org/10.1080/10301763.2021.2002239.

Reports

  • Bentley, T., Caponecchia, C., Onnis, L., Farr-Wharton, B., Vassiley, A., O’neill, S., Andrew, C., De Almeida Neto, A., Huron, V. (2021). The Healthy Older Worker: A Systematic Review of Literature on Work Health and Safety Interventions for Older Workers. Australia. Centre for Work, Health and Safety, NSW government.

2020

Reports

  • Bentley, T., Farr-Wharton, B., Omari, M., Vassiley, A., Onnis, L., Shafaei Darastani, A., Nejati Ajibisheh, M., Pooley, JA., Devine, A., De Almeida Neto, A. (2020). Flexible work and psychological safety - Best practice to advance psychologically safe solutions from alternate locations: A report on findings from interviews with NSW flexible employees and managers: Phase 2 Report. Australia. Centre for Work Health and Safety NSW.

2018

Journal Articles

  • Vassiley, A. (2018). Establishing trade unionism in the emerging iron ore mining industry in Western Australia's Pilbara region, 1965-72. Labour History: a journal of labour and social history, 115(1 November 2018), 105–127. https://doi.org/10.3828/labourhistory.115.0105.

2016

Journal Articles

  • Vassiley, A. (2016). “There’s No Flies at Noonkanbah but the Scabs Are on the Way”: Trade Union Support for Aboriginal Rights during the Noonkanbah Dispute, 1979–80. Labour History: a journal of labour and social history, 110(May 2016), 77–95. https://doi.org/10.5263/labourhistory.110.0077.

Research Projects

  • Learning from past union revivals: rebuilding trade unionism in early 20th century Australia, Academic Staff Association of Edith Cowan University, Solidarity Research Fund (SRF), 2023 ‑ 2025, $19,967.
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