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Teaching Interests:

Background:

Professor Paul Boreham is currently Executive Director of the University of Queensland Social Research Centre and Deputy Director of the Institute for Social Science Research. He has worked in a range of senior tertiary research and management positions including ten years as Head of the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Qld. He was a member of the Executive of the Sociological Association of Australia and New Zealand and Editor of the Journal of Sociology and Labour and Industry.
Paul Boreham has published fourteen books and more than 100 chapters, articles in refereed journals and major research reports on employment and labour market analysis and social and economic change. His research has been supported by 20 ARC and other competitive grants totalling in excess of $7million.
Since 2002, Paul Boreham has been engaged in a major program of applied social science research as Director of the University of Queensland Social Research Centre. To date, the Centre has been successful in achieving in excess of $8 million in external competitive grant income and have been selected to provide evidence based policy research for seven Federal Government Departments and six State Government Departments and Agencies. The Centre has gained a positive reputation as a provider of evidence based research for policy advice based on advanced quantitative data collection and analysis.

Selected Publications:

1. Clegg, Stewart, Paul Boreham and Geoff Dow. 1986. Class, Politics and the Economy. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
2. Boreham, Paul, Geoff Dow and Martin Leet. 1999. Room to Manoeuvre: Political Aspects of Full Employment. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.
3. Boreham, Paul and Hugh Compston. 1992. ‘Labour Movement Organization and Political Intervention: the Politics of Unemployment in the OECD Countries 1974-1986’. European Journal of Political Research 22(2): 143-170.
4. Boreham, Paul, Richard Hall and Bill Harley. 1996. ‘Two Paths to Prosperity? Work Organization and Industrial Relations Decentralisation in Australia’. Work, Employment and Society 10(3):  449-68.
5. Boreham, Paul, Richard Hall and Martin Leet. 1996. ‘Labour and Citizenship: The Development of Welfare State Regimes’. Journal of Public Policy 16(2): 203-227.
6. Boreham, Paul and Richard Hall. 1994. ‘Trade Union Strategy in Contemporary Capitalism: the Microeconomic and Macroeconomic Implications of Political Unionism’. Economic and Industrial Democracy 15(3): 313-353.
7. Boreham, Paul. 1983. ‘Indetermination: Professional Knowledge, Organization and Control’. Sociological Review 31(4): 693-718.
8. Boreham, Paul and D. Gibson. 1978. ‘The Informative Process in Private Medical Consultations: A Preliminary Investigation’. Social Science and Medicine 12: 409-416.
9. Boreham, Paul and Richard Hall. 2004. ‘Theorising the State and Economic Democracy’. In Participation and Democracy at Work, eds. P. Thompson, J. Hyman, J. and B. Harley. London: Palgrave.
10. Boreham, Paul. 1992. ‘The Myth of Post-Fordist Management: Work Organization and Employee Discretion in Seven Countries’. Employee Relations 14(20): 13-24. 

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