Katherine Ravenswood is a Professor of Industrial Relations in the Faculty of Business and Associate Director of the NZ Policy Research Institute at Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand. Katherine’s research focuses on the examination of power, gender, and diversity in the employment relationship specializing in sustainable work and care/work regimes.  She has extensive expertise in qualitative research methods for investigating diversity and inclusion in work. She has provided expert evidence on pay equity, precarious work, and workers to government agencies in New Zealand, Australia, and to the OECD. She has led large qualitative projects funded by the New Zealand Health Research Council and leads a current Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden-funded project. Current projects include ‘Networks of Power: gender, race, and class in workplace violence’, Just transition and sustainable care systems, and the wellbeing of care and support workers.

Katherine has been a member of the steering committee since 2017 when she joined at the inaugural global carework summit.

Select Publications:

Ravenswood, K. (2023) ‘ The devil is in the detail: How neoliberal design limited the successful impact of pay equity policy in New Zealand‘ in H. Conley & P. Koskinen (Eds). Handbook on Gender and Public Sector Employment, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

Ravenswood, K., Nicholson, A., Hurd, F., Ewertowska, T., Fromm, A., McCully, K., Woolley, M., The Participant Researchers. (2022). The wellbeing of community support workers during the Covid-19 pandemic. Auckland, New Zealand: AUT.

Ravenswood, K. (2022). Greening work-life balance: Connecting work, caring and the environment, Industrial Relations Journal, 53(1), pp.3-18, doi: 10.1111/irj.12351