About the Australian Workplace Innovation and Social Research Centre

The Australian Workplace Innovation and Social Research Centre (WISeR) focuses on work and socio-economic change.  WISeR is particularly interested in how organisational structure and practices, technology and economic systems, policy and institutions, environments and culture interact to influence the performance of workplaces and the wellbeing of individuals, households and communities.

WISeR also specialises in socio-economic impact assessment including the distributional impacts and human dimensions of change on different population groups and localities.  Our research plays a key role in informing policy and strategy development at a national, local and international level.

Key areas of focus include:

• workforce development and planning
• work and technology
• workplace wellbeing and quality of work
• work, education and training
• health, work and ageing
• equity and work
• workforce participation, attraction and retention
• workplace impact of change
• human dimensions of economic, technological and environmental change
• distributional and spatial impacts of social and economic polies