Anna Chapman is a senior lecturer in the Law School and a member of the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law. Anna's research focuses on work, gender, sexuality, race and law. This work has engaged particularly with anti-discrimination law, unfair dismissal law and leave regimes. Anna is currently engaged in a project examining the relationship between law, work and care.
Anna is one of the Editors of the Australian Journal of Labour Law.
In 2010 Anna undertook a consultancy for the Australian Human Rights Commission on discrimination law in relation to the grounds of sexuality and gender identity. As part of this consultancy she authored a Research Paper titled 'Protection from Discrimination on the Basis of Sexual Orientation or Sex and/or Gender Identity' (23 pages plus Appendix of 10 pages).
Beth Gaze and Anna Chapman have been awarded an ARC Discovery Grant (2011-2013) for the project, 'Reshaping Employment Discrimination Law: Towards Substantive Equality at Work?' The 2009 reshaping of Australian industrial law through the Fair Work Act unexpectedly introduced a comprehensive prohibition on discrimination in employment. This novel prohibition will operate alongside existing anti-discrimination laws. These have quite separate conceptual foundations, and their effectiveness in promoting equality at work has been limited. This project examines the effect of the new provisions, and the interaction of the overall system of employment discrimination laws in both providing legal redress for discriminatory harms at work in Australia, and in contributing to systemic change towards equality in relations at work.
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