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Project 5.1: The Future Workforce – Skills and Security

PhD Researcher

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QUT

Lead Partner Organisation

The Future Workforce – Skills and Security

This Project aims to identify how collaborative robotics are reshaping the skills required of the Advanced Manufacturing workforce and the potential impact on the job and income security of workers.

Through interviews and surveys of workers in Advanced Manufacturing, this project will explore the extent of robotic adoption in workplaces and the impact on and experiences of workers. The study will examine how robotics have influenced workers’ sense of job, income and labour market security and if and how, their work, employment or skill requirements have changed.

The findings will provide new insights on the extent of collaborative robotic adoption in Advanced Manufacturing in Australia, facilitate the identification of skill requirements for the future, and will explain the real and perceived impacts of technological change on the worker.

PhD Researcher: Jacqueline Greentree

Supervisor: Prof Paula McDonald


Associated Researchers

Paula McDonald

Chief Investigator (Human-Robot Workforce program)
Queensland University of Technology
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Penny Williams

Research Program Co-lead (Human-Robot Workforce program)
Queensland University of Technology
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Greg Hearn

Research Program Co-lead (Human-Robot Workforce program)
Queensland University of Technology
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Melinda Laundon

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Human-Robot Workforce Program)
Queensland University of Technology
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Sean Gallagher

Chief Investigator
Swinburne University of Technology
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